"My Lobotomy", from NPR. I'll be listening to it on the flight home.

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/packages/hair_metal_bands/ Cast your vote.

while in detroit this week, i'm staying a fancy marriot. i'm actually in a detached colonial house with 4 units in it. its the walt whitman house. it apparently is a replica of his residence.
it is a bit drafty.

I've got buy 1 get 1 big mac coupons that expire today.

LUNCH!!!

BBC has a face memory test that I just did.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/tmt/

Recognition score
( if you saw it )
Your score: 100% (average score 92%)
This is a measure of your ability to remember the photos you've seen,
regardless of the part in which you saw them. From all 24 photos shown
in Parts 1 & 2, you recognised: 24 photos.

Temporal memory score
( when you saw it )
Your score: 91%
Average score: 68%
This is a measure of how often you recognised a photo and matched it to the correct part, instead of just remembering which ones you'd seen. From all the photos you recognised, you matched: 22 photo(s) to the correct part.

Wow. 9 yr goes to town on his mom. Over Chocolate Milk!
(a must see ... all 3 minutes)

Chicago beats Houston 4 times in one week. Record still held by Bobby Brown.

/quote.

Heh.

If you in any way at all derive some enjoyment or pleasure from 'Humps' by the black eyed peas, confess your sin here.

Worst song ever??

I've entered the world of sudoku, thanks to a coworker who told me to bring a pencil to lunch. For those who haven't seen/tried it yet (you may have seen other people doing it); you get a grid 9x9. In the grid are 9 3x3 grids. The goal of the puzzle is to fill in the numbers 1-9 in such a way that each full row, each full column, and each 3x3 grid, contain each and every number, once and only once. The game provides existing fixed numbers that help get you started.

We first tackled one generated by sudokoassistant.com, but felt it was too hard. We got moving much quicker on the one from sudoku.com, though we still didn't finish it within 30 minutes (and lunchtime ended). I think a few more puzzles and I'll get the 'tricks' down, and these could be enjoyable on the train rides to and from work.

As it is, my unfinished one will be looking at me from my desk for the rest of the day, with only 4 more 3x3's to finish up.

WTF? Smurfs get bombed. Literally. From UNICEF. (40 seconds in)

Amazing picture. From BBC.

Anyone game for a game of scrabble?

Google > Image Search > Happy.

That first image does not make me happy.

http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html

not sure why i had such a hard time with this. Note rule 5:
Once you have figured it out, don't spoil the fun for others...let them figure it out for themselves!

WTF?

I decided to check out my amazon gold box offers today. The first piece that comes up:
Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

#5:
Lumiscope 1095 Upper-Arm-Style Blood Pressure Monitor