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so, $800 a month, utilities not included, unfurnished, is a bit too much to be paying on our stipend, isn’t it, no matter how nice the apartment?

I reckon that it’s fairly common knowledge that I’m a big fan of the shows Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs, for fairly obvious reasons. (Explosion! Large heaps of dung! Giant machines used for testing urban myths, demolishing a whole host of things, or a combination of both!)

Anyways, I caught several episodes of Cash Cab the other day, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Definitely the sort of reality game show that doesn’t wear thin on me inside of five minutes.

In case y’all missed it, Tom Jones has been knighted.

Opinions on his music span the spectrum, but I kinda like his stuff; he’s like a loud British version of Barry White meets James Brown, making him difficult for me not to enjoy.

It’s about that time: tired enough of messin’ with proposal reading and writing to warrant some non-productive link-blogging.

First, we have misinterpreting Justice Scalia’s gesticulations.

Also, the “iPod earbuds causing deafness” hubbub has reached its logical end.

Even though we have yet to see the fallout of all the Jack Abramoff Congressional lobbying scandal mess, at least our boy got his day in court on some prior fraud charges, netting him a sweet 70 months in the white-collar big house.

Attention all baseball fans! More injury woes for the hapless Cubbies.

Am I the only one shocked by this case of the Afghan Christian convert who had to flee to Italy to avoid the death penalty for abandoning Islam? Didn’t we bomb the hell out of that place, dump lots of money there, and still maintain a military presence there in order to get rid of the governing system that promoted this sort of theocratic nightmare?

Back to work, I reckon.

So we’re one touch closer to flying on a A380 since they just completed the evacuation tests.

The great thing is in the fine print. One person actually broke her leg in the drill. Sounds like a real panic evacuation, even for practice.

Airbus: A380 Passes Evacuation Test - Yahoo! News

Another link post… apparently facebook is putting itself up for sale.

The amazing part is how much they want: $2 billion. Not bad for a bunch of Harvard sophomores that only put the whole thing together 2 years ago. Then again, it is the 7th most heavily trafficked site on the internet.

Facebook’s on the Block

I figure that Tim shouldn’t have all the rights to posting about dead people.

I went on a Lem kick a few years ago and read basically all of his stories that have been translated into English. It’s really some pretty decent science fiction.

If any of you would like to borrow some books, just let me know.

Solaris author Stanislaw Lem dies at 84 - Yahoo! News