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Monday – 04 April 2011
It’s the beginning of a new work week. (At least it’s sunny)

Today is also my stepfather’s birthday…

…and my friend, Mark’s, birthday…

…and my friend, Spydr’s, birthday.

Yeah. S’a lotta birthdays today.

Yesterday was a very lazy day. I woke up to snow, a continuation of the snowfall that started before I went to bed Saturday night. Throughout the day, it was alternately snowy and sunny. (“Welcome to Utah…”) In the late afternoon, I decided to visit the soon-to-be-closed local Borders. I found a few items that I couldn’t live without. After returning home, I took a trip to Gotham City, via DC Universe Online. I ran a series of missions that featured crimes by Poison Ivy. But, in the end mission, Ivy kicked my trash… using Robin to do so. (Of course, that kind of means that I got beaten up by Wil Wheaton. Or at least a character whose voice actor was Wil Wheaton.)

During and after dinner, we watched a new-to-me show called Bert the Conqueror. Hilarious. SaraRules! had apparently seen it before. It was a ton of fun. The premise of the show has the host, Bert Kreischer, traveling to different parts of the country “…in search of can’t-miss thrill rides and local activities, from the crazy to the insane to the downright dangerous.” The episodes we were: Maine and Virginia. After the Maine episode, I mentioned to SaraRules! that we had four years to prep for the 15th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship. She smiled and stopped short of patting me on the head and saying,”Sure we do, dear.”

We wrapped up the evening watching a movie called Monsters; SaraRules! had heard of it by way of a couple of friends. It was part Cloverfield, part The Mist and part… either Logan’s Run and/or The Road. It was a small studio/lower budget film, but its production quality was still better than 95% of the original movie content that SciFi… sorry, “SyFy”… comes up with. Part of the movie was interesting and engaging and somewhat as I expected, but the ending was a little flat and anticlimactic to me. Still, I’d say it’s worth a viewing.

Stray Toasters

• The Neville Brothers: Yellow Moon
• Breach exposes Chase, Capital One, TiVo customers
• Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak’s criminal record to stay open
• BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ fires back at Tesla lawsuit
• HeroClix World has a link to the new Green Lantern footage, which debuted at WonderCon last weekend.
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• Vast Gene Study Yields Insights on Alzheimer’s
• Rubber’s Psycho Tire Rolls into Pantheon of Road-Rage Cinem
  There’s a part of me that is just curious enough to want to see this movie…
• Just because: A History of Rap

• The Spirit of Sharing: Museums Pursue Engagement with Social Media
• Steve Rogers Returns as Captain America in July
  While I realize that this is most likely being done due to the release of Captain America: The First Avenger, I’m a bit sad/disappointed by this, as I’ve enjoyed the “passing of the mantle” from Steve to his former sidekick.
• Searchers find pieces of crashed jet in Atlantic
• Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library

That’s pretty good for now…

Namaste.