Tuesday
Cold. Grey. Rainy.
Tomorrow’s trip will be a nice change of pace.

I got something on the order of 3½ hours of sleep last night and got up at 07:00 this morning, yet I didn’t have the usually overwhelming urge to nap. (Edit: I did doze for a bit between 11:30 and 12:30 this morning, it seems.) Maybe I’ll compensate for it by hitting the rack early tonight.

and I got together for drawing this afternoon. At least there were no annoying pyramid scheme get-togethers going on in the background.

News
Morning Edition – The Birdman of Central Park
Morning Edition – Gamers Make Serious Work of Computer Games
Talk of the Nation – Kinsey Report, 50 Years Later
Day to Day – Monika Mueller: 15 Years After Fall of Berlin Wall
All Things Considered – Aurora Borealis Lights Up the U.S. Sky
Fresh Air – Bollywood for Beginners (for )

USA Today – How Not to Stop a Drunk Driver

Stray Toasters

  • Southern Poverty Law Center
  • Miami Dolphins coach Dave Wannstedt resigned today.
  • 1896: Austrian immigrant Leo Hirshfield brings to the U.S. his recipe for a chocolatey, chewy candy, which he begins producing in a small store in New York City. Hirshfield names the candy after his five-year-old daughter, whose nickname is “Tootsie.”
    Just how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?

    How many letters has Tootsie Roll received from children counting the number of licks it took them to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

    Since 1970, we have received more than 20,000 letters from children around the world who believe they have solved the mystery behind how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

  • I forgot (it wasn’t hard to do) that we also saw a trailer for Son of the Mask yesterday. I could be in the minority here… um, “another minority”… but I just don’t find Jamie Kennedy amusing. At all. And, while I’m bringing up minorities, I’ll go admit that I don’t see what all the hullabaloo about Will Farrell is, either. I’ve found him entertaining from time to time, but that’s about it.
  • I Want One of Those – it’s like a British ThinkGeek. And how can you not like a webstore that has Seven Deadly Sins Chocolate and Instant Snow (Instant Snow?!?)?
  • Neat URLs from and IRC:
    1. Digichromatography: Restoring Prokudin-Gorskii’s Photographs
    2. The Silver Swan at The Bowes Museum
  • Pierce Brosnan got fired.
    Colin Farrell says “No” to being the next James Bond.
    And so, the search continues…

  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot..?!? : Witch Hunter Robin is back on Adult Swim.
  • The site for Dictionaraoke is still up, but the media links don’t work. Fortunately, it seems that some of them have been preserved on a mirror.

That’s it for the next couple of days. Hopefully the weather will be more amenable in Moab.

Shoot straight.
Conserve ammo.
And never cut a deal with a dragon.

Namaste.