Thursday
Not too much to the day.

I was in a poker tournament last night. Out of 5781 entrants, I finished 570th. Top tenth of the total entrants. I can easily live with that.

One amusing highlight of today: One of the cats got into Jess’ yarn and decided to turn the living room into an interactive work of art. I have to give points for creativity. I just wish I knew which cat to give them to.

NPR and Other News
Morning Edition – Stigma Fading from Community Colleges
Talk of the Nation – Planning Your Haunted Vacation
Day to Day – Science with Ira Flatow: New Theory on Hearing
Day to Day – Dub Reggae Ice Cream Truck
All Things Considered – Mandela’s Long-Lost Prison Notes to Be Released

Fresh Air – Interviews with Matt Stone and J.J. Abrams

BBC News – Mobile phone ‘ear tumors risk’

Stray Toasters

  • Centaur – The four-wheeled Segway
  • The Darwin Awards. Okay.
    The Darwin Awards… the movie? Umm…

  • Od tireh, od tireh
    Kama tov yihiyeh

  • By way of : Today’s Dork Tower is about LJ.
  • From G4TechTV: Horrorfind.com – The Horror and Hallowe’en Search Engine
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
    (And, yes, I can spell this without having to look it up.)

  • We’re often told that art imitates life. Today, I came across an interesting… crossover, if not outright reversal of that adage. I was looking up some in formation on Nichelle Nichols, best known as Lt. Uhura on Star Trek: TOS and came across this rather interesting bit of trivia:

    During the late 1970s until 1987(?), Nichelle Nichols was employed by NASA and was in charge of astronaut recruits and hopefuls. Most of the recruits that she launched were minority candidates of different races and/or ethnicities, as well as gender, like Guion Bluford (the first African American male astronaut), Sally Ride (the first female astronaut), Judith Resnick (one of the original female astronauts recruited by NASA, who perished during the launch of the Challenger on January 28, 1986), and Ronald McNair (another victim of the Challenger disaster). She lived in Houston, Texas during her years as a Johnson Space Center employee.

  • By way of : Icon Story
  • “Steve, what are you doing?”
    “Summoning Cthulu.”

And that’s all I have to say about that.

Namaste.