Random Access

Friday – 20 April 2012
It’s my “on” Friday. And, it’s also “4/20.” (Insert your own jokes here.)

Last night was my night to fix dinner. After wracking my brain over what to fix, I decided to head up to the local Whole Foods and see what they had in their meat counter. I returned home with four good-sized Parmesan Chicken breasts. While they were in the oven, I prepared some rice in chicken broth (and a little lemon pepper, for flavor). I added a salad for our vegetables and we called it a meal.

We watched Castle while we ate; it was a fun episode, with Nathan Fillion’s Firefly costar, Adam Baldwin, as a guest star. After dinner, I joined a couple of coworkers online and played a little MW3. And had my virtual ass handed to me. Repeatedly. But, it was still fun… despite the ego-bruising.

Stray Toasters

• Girl born with no hands wins national penmanship award
• LEGO + guerilla art = Banksy
• Investigation: Two Years After the BP Spill, a Hidden Health Crisis Festers
• When I first read this strip…
  
  …I wasn’t sure what to say about it. Then I read the commentary that accompanied it:

  An annoying distraction in the gay marriage debate is the idea that it infringes on a parent’s right to leave their kids in the dark about homosexuality. Preserving a kid’s ignorance is a pretty weak argument, unless there’s a truly compelling reason to keep them ignorant… such as a giant bug monster issuing forth from their heads.

  And that’s really every kid’s dream anyway, so I still don’t see what the fuss is about.

  And that, I thought, summed things up nicely.

• By way of Dave: Trains have a long-time, little-known history at HAFB
• Fears Rise That Recovery May Falter in the Spring
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• Ultimate Shopping Guide for Men, Spring 2012
• By way of Matt: Facts, 360 B.C. – 2012 A.D.
• The art of Jessica Lynn Gonzalez
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• Trojan designed to take screenshot of hotel payment apps
• Breast cancer rules rewritten in ‘landmark’ study
• While I’m an O’s fan, I’m both happy and a little weirded-out by the fact that they are currently atop the AL East.
• Speaking of baseball: Fenway Park is celebrating it centennial season.
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• The World’s First Bionic Foot Mimics Flexion to Aid Gait
• The Candle Problem

Namaste.