Looks like Coruscant.
Sobering Insights
Some sobering insights from a foster care caseworker:
Instead of regularly visiting children for whom I am legally responsible and seeing the truth with my own eyes, I do paperwork. The reason is simple: If the paperwork isn’t completed, the city loses federal funds. The more government forms completed, the more federal money the city receives.
It never ceases to amaze me just how poorly we as a society care for those who need us so desperately.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Dave for being selected as one of three keynote speakers at REAL World 2008.
I knew you could do it, and my friend.
Now all you have to do is come up with the whole 20 minute presentation. 
Still A Great Album
From The Guardian: The quest to decode Beck’s lyrics can finally come to a close. “Most of the vocals on [Odelay] were scratch vocals,” he has revealed to Rolling Stone. “We just grew attached to them.”
It’s still a great album, though. Definitely in the top ten albums of the 1990s, ranking up there with Nirvana’s Nevermind, Toad The Wet Sprocket’s Fear and Gin Blossoms’ New Miserable Experience.
Super Tuesday
Do it. Do it now.
Nuns And Monks On The Decline
According to this article, the number of nuns and monks is on the decline.
Well, duh.
They don’t breed.
Happiness Is
Happiness is…
… a dreary Monday morning…
… after an exhausting weekend…
… and you have a headache…
… and you need some caffeine…
… and you thought you were out of Diet Mountain Dew…
… but you found one last can in the fridge in the break room.
Ahhhh… sweet addiction relief.
I Beat Bill
Three Legged Race
Fake Steve Jobs on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal: The Borg-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster. More here (warning: Fake Steve sometimes has a potty mouth).
The Joy of Tech offer its take on the deal.
Frankly, I think Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo smacks of desperation. They are scared out of their pants by Google, and this is the best idea they can come up with.
The only effect I can see it having on my life is that Microsoft will own Flickr, which will suck, because I used to have a Flickr account, but then I had to get a Yahoo account to use Flickr when Yahoo bought Flickr. Wonder what happens to my account now? Might be easier just to find a new place to store my online photos. Bleh.
Jill Update
Hard to imagine why I’m not getting much work done these days.
Nope, can’t figure it out…
In the meantime, Jill’s gone from cute little kitty to full grown cat, and all that that implies.
How did I get talked into this?