Beau Jackson

I was looking at the news this morning, and there’s a site now called “mydeathspace.com”. It’s basically a giant obituary column, with links to the deceased myspace page. On the one hand, I thought this was a bit morbid, but I picked out one of the deceased and took a look at his myspace page. It was touching really - lots of posts from people just saying they were thinking of him, and miss him.

I guess some people get obsessive about this sort of thing (dieing, and death, and learning about dead strangers). It’s not something that I think I’ll ever look at again, but it was worth looking at once. Thankfully, I don’t have a myspace page, so I won’t have to worry about strangers discussing the details of my death one day.

Our priest brought our son an article from the newspaper about this 11 year old kid that shot a 1000+ pound wild boar in Alabama, with a frickin’ pistol. Granted, it was a .50 cal pistol, but I’m not sure I’d want to get close enough to a monster like to shoot it with a hand gun.

Check out the details (and a picture)

I read an interesting article about this couple that have headed out to sea on a 70-some-odd-foot schooner. Their goal is to remain at sea without ever stepping on land or taking on fresh supplies for 1000 days. Their adventure started just a couple of days ago. It sounded like an interesting thing to check in on once and a while, so I’ve added a link to it under “Stuff to read”.