Gino action news
by Me on Jul.06, 2005, under Men Are Martians
Gino likes to discuss the news with his clients, as a sort of way to shoot the breeze and engage in “customer relationship marketing.” Today, he’s been discussing this news story:
A Russian astrologer sued NASA for whacking a comet Sunday with its Deep Impact probe. Marina Bai claims the impact on comet Tempell “ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe,” according to the newspaper Izvestia. Bai seeks damages of $300 million — about what the mission cost — for her “moral sufferings.” She told the paper that the experiment would “deform her horoscope.” Sciencetists claim the crash did not significantly alter the comet’s orbit around the sun and say the experiment poses no danger to Earth. But what do those science types know? Maybe the reader senses a bad moon rising.
(o/~ There’s a bathroom on the right … o/~ — okay, who besides me thought that’s what the words to the song were?)
I guess when it comes to injecting something interesting into the working day, a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do.

July 6th, 2005 on 4:23 pm
Does your horoscope feel shaky
Far out there and away from reality. Wired News: A Russian astrologer filed suit against Nasa for hitting the comet Tempell. For, get this, $300 million. She claims that it has affected her horoscope. I wonder if it was fortold…