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This episode of Bones about Pony Play has the potential to be even better than the CSI Epsiode about furries. It took me quite a while to figure out what they were talking about.

An estimate as to worldwide corruption, personally I think it's low. Makes you think though.

Quick review of the Lindt Chili & Mango Chocolate: Good, but the mango flavor got kind of lost for me. I can't find a link for it on the Lindt USA site. I like the heat, though if you have not had chili chocolate before I recommend trying a bit first.

Well. Affordable Health Care for America Act passed the house. I desperately hope that either
1. This is the one bit of the government that's not a monumental clusterfuck or
2. It fails to pass the senate

I'm also hoping for a pony and a million dollars. I suspect that's more realistic.

I would like a copy of This map.

Well This looks like fun.

Note this is without the added expense of "health care reform".

I'm planning to hike to Mary's Rock in the blue ridge mountains tomorrow, probably early afternoon. Ping me if you're interested, it's a short hike, under 2 miles each way, with ~19% incline.

I'm not quite sure what to make of MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever. At this point (3 minutes in) I'm mostly amused.

A Brilliant and Equitable Plan! Lets socialize lawyers at the same time as we socialize health care.

I decided to call these pics Naked Bathroom. I had another witty name, but I've forgotten it. Oddly work safe, given the name.

9
I plan on seeing 9 very shortly after it's release. I'm currently thinking 9/11/09 (next Friday). Who's interested? ETA: Sunday the 13th has also been proposed.

Thanks Congress, for fucking me over with "Credit Card Reform"!

(The entire net effect on me is: Upping my APRs by about 5%, increasing my minimum payment {no impact there, luckily}, and eliminating the grace period for purchases. Talk about Effective Reform!)

I've run across This link to pictures of a weeks worth of food, along with the family that consumes it, in various countries around the world. It's interesting, though I'm not sure how really accurate it is.

Anyone in the va/dc/md area looking for a ride down to Dragoncon in Atlanta on Thursday and back on Monday? I'm planning to drive down, and have plenty of car space.

Behind a link for your sanity.

Do I know anyone who has and knows how to use a tile saw?

Shitty shitty week
Hopefully it'll get better now. Just booked Schmoo's flight for turkey day.
This week started out ok, then rapidly headed down the crapper. Wednesday I realized that my fridge was Dead-dead-Dead Jim. I called around, and the earliest deliver I can arrange is not until next Wednesday, so I'm short a fridge for just over a week. Awesome, 1000$ later I've got a fridge (the only reputable model that'll fit in my fridge-hole) inbound for Wednesday.

I go in to work Thursday morning pretty grumpy from dead-fridge-syndrome boot up my laptop, and entirely forget the RHEL5 DVD in the drive. Sadly, RHEL5 did not forget me. Half an hour later when I get back to my laptop it's freshly imaged with a RHEL5 custom server install. So I head home, as I'm worthless without connectivity. After I get home I spend a while talking to folks, and finally get them to ship me out a freshly imaged drive, which will arrive Saturday. Argh.

I decide that I should get *something* done Thursday, I go to get an oil change. Guy says "hey, your transmission lube didn't get changed, 90$". Not a huge deal, but really, did that help? So I get my car back, and stop by Wendys for food, as my fridge is dead. I pop open my change holder, and find out that most of the quarters (20$+ worth) are missing. Awesome?

I've spent probably too much time thinking about the current broken legislative system, with horribly broken laws being created by all sides. (DOMA, AWB, NCLB, etc) The judicial system is supposed to weed out (most) of these laws, and has in my opinion mostly abdicated it's responsibility. I've started to wonder if jury nullification could take over the responsibility from the judicial system, and if it should be promoted more.

Anyone have thoughts/comments/whatever?