Carson Palmer’s (preseason) NFL debut was, um, less than stellar.

I’ve repositioned my webcam so that it points out the window, looking at our fire escape and the courtyard beyond.

Well, that’s the view it shows during the daylight hours, anyway. At night, it’s almost entirely dark except for a single orange light in the middle. :)

Here’s the present view:

Two years of blogging at the Grand Central Station of the Blogosphere. Congrats, Glenn!

For a while today, it seemed possible that terrorists had attacked a Sprint corporate campus in Kansas City — perhaps they had been upset with Sprint’s poor cell-phone reception when they tried to call Osama with the latest plot details? — but it turns out to have been a rather remarkable string of coincidences. Or so the authorities would have us believe. Conspiracy theories, anyone? :)

Blogger Jay Manifold was there.

UPDATE: Jay has posted an update, explaining among other things what a truly unlikely coincidence this was:

The campus… has never before experienced a bomb threat or a car fire.

Never before. And now they’ve experienced both in one day.

It reminds me of June 6, 1996, when Newington High School was evacuated twice because of two totally unrelated fires — one in a third-floor classroom caused by an electrical problem with a fan, one in a first-floor art room caused by some sort of art equipment. In 13 years as a student in the Newington public school system, I only experienced two actual fires at school, and both were on that day.

Anyway, Jay does the math for the Sprint incident, and determines that “we are literally talking about a one-in-a-million shot.” He then proceeds to do even more math, does an analysis as nerdy as it is totally fascinating (to me, at least), and concludes that:

In general, emergency plans which are entirely appropriate for an accident, like a fire, can lead to disaster in the event of an act of malice. I urge careful reconsideration and redesign of evacuation procedures for terrorist incidents.

Read the whole thing, as they say.

Get your “Ah-nuld for Governator” merchandise now!

You can’t top the original.

My website received 3,280 unique hits Thursday, the day after being linked to by mega-blog InstaPundit, but fell 46 hits short of my daily record — 3,326 — which was set on Feb. 3, the day after my site’s first-ever InstaBoost.

Still, Thursday, Aug. 7 will go down as the second-busiest day ever on BrendanLoy.com. Feb. 4 is a distant third with 1,904 hits, followed by Feb. 2 (1,586) and Wednesday (1,114).

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David Letterman on Arnold’s Tonight Show announcement last night: “I missed the whole thing. The one night that I forget to watch Leno, and this happens!” Heh.

Newsday sums things up succinctly: California Has Gone Nuts.

I realized today, for the first time since arriving at my new job on Monday, that the window in the office where I work looks directly south toward the Deutsche Bank building on the edge of Ground Zero — which means that before 9/11, the office must have had a gorgeous view of the Twin Towers (and that on 9/11, it must have had a very traumatic view). Now, the view looks just sort of empty.

In less depressing news, the multi-story building where I work is also reportedly the building where Mariah Carey lives!

Traffic update: 3,194 unique hits today, through 9:17 PM Eastern time. I got 40 hits between 7:00 and 8:00, and 42 hits between 8:00 and 9:00. I need to average 48.5 hits per hour between now and midnight in order to break the record of 3,326. So it looks like I may not quite make it. But man, it’s going to be close.

It’s been exactly two months since I wrote:

At the moment, I think it’s simply too soon to declare that U.S. troops have, in fact, discovered that Iraq doesn’t have (and didn’t have all along) weapons of mass destruction. There are still too many alternative explanations that have yet to be fully explored and proven one way or the other.

Two months later, I still think it’s too soon to make that definitive declaration, and I still hope to God it never needs to be made. But I’m getting genuinely worried. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been too busy traveling and working to read the blogs much lately — but then again, my primary source of news these days is the decidedly conservative, scathingly pro-war New York Sun, and even the stuff I read in there doesn’t reassure me. I know Bush has a team in Iraq that’s supposed to have a report on WMD due sometime soon, but from what I’ve read of the leaked information about their findings, I’m not convinced the report is going to quell my doubts. I sense, and dread, a day of reckoning approaching on this issue.

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The text of the InstaPundit post that included a link to my site reads:

Arnold Schwarzenegger is running, and Brendan Loy has all the cliched headlines covered already.

Well, hmm now. Following in the tradition of my recent Dowdification of Chris’s “plug” for my site, do you think I should do a little creative editing and add the following quote to my list at left?

“Brendan Loy has… [it] covered.”
–Glenn Reynolds

Heh. Well, perhaps not.

My 3,000th visitor today stopped by at 4:49 PM Eastern time — IP records indicate he or she was from Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, which is less than four miles away from where I work — and the hits just keep on comin’. I’m up to 3,029 now, which puts me just 298 away from breaking my all-time daily traffic record.

So stay tuned — and not just for that. I won’t be yakking out my traffic all evening; I’ve also been planning for some time to post something substantial today about the search for Iraqi WMD, seeing as how it’s been exactly two months since my last major post on that subject. So yeah. Check back for that later. Get your Fisking scalpel ready, Andrew. :)

UPDATE, 6:39 PM EDT: D’oh! I just remembered, my SiteMeter counter is 3 minutes and 30 seconds fast, so I need to subtract 21 hits from my count for today (seeing as how I already included them in my total for yesterday). That means the above title should have read “3,008 down, 319 to go” — and that person from Madoff Securities was really just hit #2,979. I don’t know who hit #3,000 was. Oh, well. Of course, the good news is, I get to keep counting tonight until Site Meter thinks it’s 12:03:30 AM. :)

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I am on my lunch break. The website has about 2,600 hits so far today — on pace for a new daily record (the current record is 3,326).

And now, a random New York picture:

I knew it:

Did I call it, or did I call it? :)

UPDATE: The Post used one of the headlines that I failed to think of in my list (though one of the commenters did think of it):

For more of today’s newspaper front pages, click here to view the Newseum’s excellent thumbnail gallery. (But click quick — they’ll all be replaced in less than 24 hours with tomorrow’s newspaper front pages!)