Thankful for humor... like Dave Guion's hilariously deadpan "Spy Rock" essay. http://ping.fm/E1dfh

Australian Navy closes for Christmas: http://ping.fm/Qh9F1

Dressing up as "Petey P. Cup" for an HMO -- worst job ever? http://ping.fm/AJhYP

24° -- thank goodness for long underwear!

My, but printing pictures of brain sections takes a lot of ink!

Finally, fighting the full-on sinus cold. Thanks, kiddo.

Goode Riddance: A Darfur-supporting, time-tithing, self-deprecating newcomer becomes Virginia's big electoral surprise. http://ping.fm/9iOOw

A train conductor in Sweden said he was forced to shut down the toilets because too much flushing could stop the train. http://ping.fm/RkfXk

Hoping the new fridge actually fits through the door... ah, the joys of old houses.

Only waited about half an hour to vote... but why Tuesday? http://ping.fm/pu4DT

District Six voters' dilemma: Weird Name or Bat@&#% Crazy? http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2008/10/political_theater.shtml

Cabbage Patch Palin... I don't think I'll be sleeping tonight. http://ping.fm/yldqi

Composting kills Minneapolis temp worker: http://ping.fm/PAJRw

Everybody's Voting for the Weekend: http://ping.fm/LxJB0

Palin: "I always wanted a son named Zamboni" http://ping.fm/wLpU3

Dangit, I missed Zombie Pub Crawl again!

http://ping.fm/5EceL

After reading Chuck Klosterman's "The Pretenders", I've decided to start a Presidents of the United States tribute band. We will be called "The Vice Presidents".

Sweating the contrast on a cardiac image...

C'mon, SiSU!

Just "friended" my mayor on Facebook. I feel dirty.

Just for today, call me "Mad Convict Pruitt" (courtesy the Pirate Name Generator )

Fighting the urge to binge on (free!) peppermint patties...

Writing and labeling a ridiculous number of CDs... thank goodness our new Primera just showed up!

Still cursing the new Adium... why would a "bug-fix" release make all my chats blank!?!?

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Digging the cruft out of an old WebVista site... slowly... over WebDAV. I swear, that stands for Delay and Vanish, since "Wait, wait... g'bye!" is its usual behavior in OS X...

Itching to make some of The 99 Cent Chef's Summer Ceviche