I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Kid defends mother with toy lightsaber
January 4, 2008
First it was that kid in a Spidey costume who saved a girl from the burning building. I almost like this story, from Norwich, England, better:
An 11-year-old boy demonstrated The Force when he defended his mom by hitting an attacker with a toy lightsaber.
The man, in his 30s, fled after being confronted by the youngster outside a bakery in Swardeston, near Norwich, England.
Police said the boy hit the man with his toy after the man had punched and verbally abused his mother as she approached her car.
Officers are appealing for witnesses to the Dec. 22 attack.
Allan Jennings of the Norfolk Police said: “The incident caused quite a commotion and it is unlikely it would have gone unnoticed.”
You don’t mess with Luke Skywalker’s mother. Ever. It’s a shame that the police haven’t caught this areshole just yet, but how humiliating was his defeat, eh? Big, tough, woman-hitting man gets beaten back by a pre-teen with a glorified plastic tube.
(In Soviet Russia, hat tips you: The Jawa Report)
