- The left side of my mouth is numb. I have a double-cankor sore on the inside of my lip, right where my eye-teeth meet. I chomped it one day last week, and then it followed the familiar pattern of swelling and biting and swelling and biting, until I now have two incredibly painful tooth-mark-sized cankor sores. Numb, of course, because I've got that awesome medicine all over it.
- My forehead only hurts a little bit now. Last Thursday morning in the shower, I dropped my shampoo and didn't think twice about bending over to pick it up. Then I felt a THUD all the way into my teeth as I smacked my forehead on the shower control handle thing. I had a nice red egg swelling up by the time I got out of the shower, but I put ice on it right away, so it never got colorful. It just hurt. A lot.
- You know not to buy any Sony BMG CDs anymore, right? I first read about it over a week ago, but if you haven't heard the details be warned because this is just unconscionable. [Note: you really only have to worry about CDs that say "Content Enhanced and Protected" and will offer you a EULA when you run it on a computer -- if you say no to the EULA, it won't install the root kit. If you've used any Sony CDs in the last year or so, you should check this.] My favorite part is that the guy who figured out what was going on and that you couldn't remove this kind of malware-enabling rootkit/spyware, was technically breaking the law (DMCA).
- Last night's West Wing was fun -- the health insurance argument almost made me cry, it was so beautiful. We were having a freak lightning storm at the same time, and I wondered aloud how cool it would be if there were a sudden bolt of lightning and Santos and Vinick really were our presidential candidates and the election really were right around the corner. I need a Santos for President icon. Yes. Sure the episode was cheesy, and I wanted to hit Ellen Degeneres at the beginning, but it was so much better than I expected. They made some very good points.
- Moving the Burmese capital. Did you see this? In a move clearly designed to stymie those of us who try to memorize the names of countries' capitals, the "government" is moving from the easily-pronounceable Rangoon to the remote jungle location of Pyinmana, further inland. But Rangoon was so easy!
- Which T-shirt is the worst? I think "The Freshman 15" is the most offensive, but I'm also kinda partial to "I'm too pretty to do math." I'd like to see someone wear that ironically to a math meet. What, you never hung out at math meets when you were in high school? Quite the social scene.
- Explain to me how paying 99-cents for NBC on-demand is any different from recording it with an ordinary DVR or TiVo. Is it just that you can get old episodes long after they've aired? So you don't have to worry about programming your machine? I don't get it.
- Actual paper title from one of my father's students: Shakespeare Paper: Is it Safe to Lie Your Loyalty Within Something Other Than You? 8567 points if you can tell me what the hell that means.
- Tonight's Arrested Development: Annyong!! Annyong!! Ann and Rita annoy me, but the mole destroying the miniature city while George Michael in a jet pack saved the day just killed me.
- Confused about the conspiracies and weird dealings in our government in the leadup to war? This graphic chart could help. Or it could leave you crying in confusion.
- Well, Amazon is certainly ready for Christmas. I'm not so much.
- We're going to have at least 18 people here for Thanksgiving. Whee, fun!
- I really tried to make it to 13, but I couldn't quite do it.
OMG, I noticed the themed Amazon home page a few hours ago. The entire world is smoking crack!