Friday – 02 January 2007
So far, it’s shaping up to be a decent day. Despite this, I’m a bit… edgy… this morning. Hopefully, I’ll be in a better mood once the blood in my caffeinestream is thinned.

Last night in a nutshell:

  • Coffee with
  • CSI: with

Welcome to the second day of Black History Month.  I’ll refer you to this post for my thoughts on it.  In a related note, while at Borders with last night, I asked Jessi (one of the asst. managers, I think) about the Black History Month displays in the store.  She mentioned that there was one upstairs; I commented, “Yes, tucked away nicely.”  I noted that I had been a patron of this Borders location for five-ish years… and that I had seen the BHM displays relegated to less and less space.  I added that Utah’s Black population is… small, to say the least… but that the lack of presence of a decent – not even large – display in the store was one of the things that I thought was sad.  She thought about it and concurred.  She also said that there were a few locations in the store’s planogram that were alloted for “discretionary use” and that she would try to put a BHM display in one of them on the main floor.

Stray Toasters

  • Who?  What?  Where?  When?  Why?  How?
    I can satisfactorily answer three, maybe four, of those.  I’m not happy with that percentage.
  • Kevin Smith posted a list of his Top 10 Movies of 2006 this week; he used a list of movies, from IMDb, that showed all domestic releases.  Using that list, I saw 34 of the movies released last year.
  • Doll on a Music Box / Truly Scrumptious
  • Bump Keys
  • Is anyone else amused/scared/shocked and awed or otherwise surprised by the Boston municipal government’s reaction to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign that went awry?

    I was talking about it with Eric yesterday – he said something to the effect of “But, you can look at it and tell it’s not a bomb…”  I reminded him that he has an engineering background and it’s easy for him to look at the LED device and tell that it’s not a threat-inducing device… but the average Joe on the street would just see wires, batteries and assorted electronics and not know what to make of it.  He agreed.  Then he said that this went hand-in-hand with his concept of “Zero Tolerance” policies: “Zero tolerance means zero thinking.”  After he elaborated, I had to concur: People get so caught up in “Issue X” that when someone comes along with a zero tolerance policy that they are perfectly willing to stick their heads in the sand and take an “I don’t want to think about that!  Just handle it!” stance rather than evaluate things on their own merits/demerits.

  • Turn it up or turn that wild card down…
  • Elish Cuthbert as Supergirl.  Not bad.  Not bad at all…
  • *stretch*
  • Exotic, Not Erotic: China’s Latest Fitness Fad

Namaste.