Phoenix is a horrible, terrible place. One would be well-advised to avoid it.

We've had a week in which we've seen/been to some cool things:

We saw The Visitor on Thursday night. It was a well-done movie ultimately underlining some extreme flaws in the American Immigration/Deportation system. While overly obvious with some of its imagery and plot devices, the movie is still one of the better ones I've seen in an actual ( Read more... )

Virgin rapped on broadband speeds

Somebody had too much fun with this title. I expect it to change before too long...

According to NOAA, we're at 25% humidity! No more single-digits for us for a while, hopefully!

Hip Hip Hooray, It's Monsoon Day!

History reports

Oh, how many of these sorts of things I've seen this last year while TAing. Oh so many.

The list is sad, but it gets so ridiculous as to become funny yet again.

The article is poorly written, but the story incredible. Make sure you check out the slideshow, it's better than the article.

I'm sure most of the American audience will be aware of the general tone of this video (if not the video itself), but I thought this was entirely representative of what matters most in the presidential campaign here. Actual issues? They take a backseat to the "terrorist fist bump ( Read more... )

$40 for a Rapture alert system? How can I lose?

Of course, it would be awesome to have a false alarm of said system occur.

Heading to Joshua Tree tomorrow...hopefully. Was supposed to be there today, but some antennas never got shipped. I hope they arrive in time tomorrow.

Here's hoping I don't step on YOU, Mr./Ms. Rattlesnake.

It was nearly 100F today, it's supposed to be 104 tomorrow and 106 Tuesday, btw.