Random Access

Thursday – 01 March 2012
March kicks off with an NBN Technical Friday.

And there’s snow; granted it’s from last night…

… but it’s still snow.

After getting Adventure Babies to bed last night, SaraRules! and I settled down to pizza and a movie. Yes, it was “Pasta and Movie Date Night,” but we decided to call an audible and have pizza instead. For our movie, we watched The Thing (2011), a prequel to the 1982 movie. It wasn’t awesome, but it was far from the worst movie that I’ve seen.

Stray Toasters

• World-Dominating IKEA Now Makes Fully-Furnished Houses
  I think I need a moment to let this sink in…
• How a Three-Year-Old Girl Introduced Her Dad to Superhero Comics
• North Koreans Agree to Freeze Nuclear Work; U.S. to Give Aid
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• As a follow-up to one of yesterday’s Stray Toasters:
• Davy Jones, Monkees Singer, Dies at 66
• Davy Jones of The Monkees: A towering multimedia star
• From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot…?!” file: Panel backs booze-sampling measure.
  At face value, this doesn’t seem to belong in the WTF file… until you read the following:

  The bill would allow restaurant owners to attend trade shows attended by liquor wholesalers where they could taste — but not swallow — the drinks they might want to put on their menus.

  YeahbuhWHAT?!

  “It’s not about consumption,” [Senate Minority Leader Ross] Romero said. “It’s about providing restaurants and high-end businesses that offer wine the ability to sample them before they purchase for their restaurants.”

  Senate President Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, voted for the measure but only after Romero made key changes — including requiring a member of the DABC to supervise the sampling process. Romero made the change readily and the bill now moves to the Senate.

• The Internet Justice League
• SaraRules! got me a Green Lantern wall calendar for Christmas. I flipped it to March, expecting to see… well.. a Green Lantern, what with St. Patrick’s Day being smack dab in the middle of the month. Nope. Who’s there instead: The Indigo Tribe. #confused

Quote of the Day
Today’s nugget of wisdom comes by way of Texts From Last Night:

A houseboat for a bachelor party is a terrible idea, we nearly die when on dry land, so how the hell are we supposed to survive a 3 day binge on a massive lake?

Namaste.