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Thursday : 05 October 2006
Four down, one to go.

Today was a pretty good day… except for the weather. It’s been intermittently raining here in the Land Behind the Zion Curtain. Raining. In fact, when it first started raining this morning, I asked a couple of coworkers: “Isn’t this a high desert plain?” They confirmed that it is. My follow-up question was then: “So, who ordered rain?!” They laughed. The rest of the work day – including the lunchtime workout – was good, too.

Post-work, I took semicolon to pick up his truck. From there, I dropped in to see Perry and the boys. I hung out there and chatted for a while; it was nice to see ’em. Earlier in the week, had invited me over to watch CSI, so I took her up on her offer. Tonight’s episode was… odd. There were four cases, told from the points of views of the victims’ cadavers. Unusual, but nonetheless good.

Stray Toasters

• I should eat something, but I don’t really have an appetite.  Maybe some fruit or something will suffice.
• Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
• Eric, a coworker, sent me the following this morning:
  

  As I walked into the building to day I saw a car with a Homer Simpson decoration hanging from the rear view mirror. Being a fan of The Simpsons, I stopped to look. It was the typical Homer in underwear holding a beer in the left hand, and the TV remote in the right. I then noticed, that it was not just a decoration, but an ‘air freshener’.

  A freshener that normally looks like a pine tree, or a cherry, or bouquet of flowers, and the fragrance usually has something to do with the picture.

  So what is the appropriate smell to associate with a fat, beer-drinking slob?

  Do you really want that in your car?

• : The Glass Book of the Dream Eaters – Victorian steampunk fiction
• Star Trek XI: What We Know, by way of Twitch Guru
• There’s a new trailer for Justice League Heroes.  One word: “Covet.”
• I’m not sure what to make of this, but it seems as though George Lucas is getting out of the movie-making business… and he’s taking Lucasfilm with him.
• Whoa.  Thunder.  (This really is supposed to be desert, I swear…)
• I’m not sure if I should be happy… or scared… that just dedicated Voltaire’s The Sexy Data Tango to me on her SHOUTcast show.  And all because I mentioned Tasha Yar.
• For : The Seven Levels of Pun Hell
• Speed Bump: Maryland Doesn’t Have a Widespread Meth Problem — At Least Not Yet.

That’s good for now.

Namaste.