Those departing for Manchester tomorrow need to be at the Park 'n' Ride no later than 8am for a prompt departure. OB's kick off at 11am, then they play again at 1pm and then play their third game at 2:30pm. Bring $20 extra to cover your "bus ticket".

I had a bit of a struggle with where to go for today's "lesson from history". Not only was this the day that Israel was founded in 1948, but the Warsaw Pact was also signed in 1955 and in 1804 Lewis and Clark set off up the Missouri River, looking for trouble. On top of that, George Lucas was born, who made a couple of decent movies, including the beloved Star Wars (early vintage). Since then he has fallen in love with CGI and has produced utter crap.

But, topping all these fine examples of human short-sightedness was the 1973 launch of Skylab. During it's 6 years in space, scientist spent more than 700 hours observing the sun, which I think would hurt your eyes a bit. They also brought back some 175,000 pictures of the sun, which must have made for some riveting viewing. Then, in 1979, to most people's surprise, Skylab started to fall out of the sky. Pretty soon 77 tons of radioactive junk were hurtling back to earth, looking for a soft spot to land on. Fortunately, it found one, since most of it fell in the Indian Ocean and Australia, which we all know is uncivlized.

Link for the day goes out to all you cube dwellers. So true it hurts.