Monday
Good Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to all.

Today was a good day. and I ran some errands this morning… including a trip to one of my new favorite toy stores: Lowe’s. *genuflect* There are far too many things there that I wouldn’t mind having. Far too many, indeed. We then headed to the local Best Buy… and we now are the proud owners of two XBoxes. (I have not yet checked what the new Xbox’ name is, though.)

We had lunch with and then came here to hang out for a bit before poker started. This “hanging out” included watching a few minutes of Spice World on Showtime. Yes, that Spice World. It was bad enough that we might just have to get drunk, watch the movie and MST3K it. Tonight’s poker was good; there were seven of us at the table. The final three were:

  1. Dave
  2. Nyx
  3. Me

News
Morning Edition: Unforgivable Blackness: Jack Johnson’s Saga
Morning Edition: Readings from King’s Dream Speech
Talk of the Nation: The Future of Civil Rights Groups
All Things Considered: Scientists Assess Value of Publicizing Their Work
All Things Considered: A Love Affair with Skateboarding

The Progressive: Martin Luther King, Freed from the Straightjacket

Stray Toasters

  • As Utah is now observing the holiday as “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day” (and none of my friends stuck their feet in their mouths), I didn’t have to snap my virtual foot off like I did last year. I consider that both a good thing and a step forward.
  • From Kodak.com: How wide is America?
  • The Mongols in World History
  • : Here’s a preview of LSH #2.
  • Someone on Yahoo! Groups’ “Lilguyz” community made this. It made me smile.
  • Are you tired of having to create a login for news websites just to read one or two articles? If so, you will want to check out bugmenot.com.
  • From the C2F DCG: Classic Storm
  • Zig-a-zig-ah… (for Nyx)
  • Any Highlander fans in the audience? Yes? Okay. You might be interested in this.
  • I found this in a copy of Stuff at Nyx and Nox’ place. I’m not sure if I should laugh… but I did.

I should have been in bed an hour ago. I have to get up in the morning and help with a furnace replacement. And so…

Namaste.