A recent visitor to the blog ran a search for “naked disability lawyer”. Unfortunately, I had to take those pictures down a while back when I realized that certain unscrupulous business owners were appropriating the images for use as cover art on DVDs with titles like The Adventures of Rod Ramjet: Size Matters and Pipe Swingers 6: Working Overtime. My body is not to be exploited for commercial purposes, at least not without suitable compensation. But stay tuned for the launch of my next website: The 19th Floor After Dark. it’s sure to be your one-stop location for all things naked and disabled and lawyerly.

“Siegel” is such a common Jewish name which can be traced to numerous families in Central and Eastern Europe, but it seems likely that my ancestors emigrated to this country from Lithuania sometime in the early twentieth century. While I’m not a genealogy buff and I’m not inclined to map out the minutiae of our family history, I occasionally speculate about whether I have any distant relatives remaining in that part of the world. I think about what it would be like to track one of them down and make the trip over there to visit him or her. I think about whether we would have anything in common besides a shared heritage. And what would this hypothetical cousin think of me? And even if I don’t have any surviving kinin the country, it might be interesting to see the town or village that my great-grandparents left behind. Maybe I could write a novel based on my travels as well as the circumstances of my ancestors’ emigration and somehow intertwine the two stories. I’m sure nobody has thought of that idea before.

Wired has a cautionary article about the potential dangers of thought-controlled games. It appears that some scientists are concerned that such games could cause attention deficit disorder, but the main point I took away from the article is that I won’t be playing Bioshock with my mind anytime soon. Whatever. You just know that the military perfected this technology years ago and it’s sitting on a shelf in some gargantuan warehouse, right next to the desiccated remains of the Roswell aliens and a second-generation cold fusion generator. They’ll keep the technology secret for another ten years or so until they think we’re “ready” for it. Condescending bastards.

The next adventure of the fedora-wearing archeologist will be titled Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Hmm, I don’t know what I think about that. It doesn’t have the zazz of Raiders of the Lost Ark; it has the feel of a title that was written by committee. Let’s hope the script for the movie itself isn’t quite as awkward.

If anybody is interested in buying a used computer, I’m going to be selling mine in the next few weeks as I prepare to build a new system. The specs:

• Athlon 2500+ XP
• 1.5 GB RAM
• ATI 9600 All-in-Wonder Video Card (with TV Tuner)
• 120 GB Primary Hard Drive
• 200 GB Secondary Hard Drive
• DVD Burner
• CD Burner
• Sound card

I’ll even do a clean install of Windows XP and I’ll clean the dust out of it. It’s a solid computer that will serve just fine for most everyday tasks. I’m asking for $200, but make me an offer.