Another reason to like NPR: they did a story about tornadoes and tornado scientests tonight, which was pretty cool. Then, then outro music they used was a violin playing the vocal improv melody from "The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd, which is the same song that plays durying the tornado scene in Dark Side of the Rainbow. Kudos for multi- ( Read more... )

Alan Johnson refuses to rule out eventual leadership bid.

And why not? He's 25 and ready to lead. Happy Birthday, mrpants41!

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Zoe and I are taking our first real vacation since December's winter weather last year around this time. And even that wasn't so much a vacation (for her, at least) as a couple thousand mile commute for graduation. I guess the only real vacation we've taken together was the Europe trip, lo those many months (19!) ago ( Read more... )

I bought a new bike today. Kind of - the bike itself is on layaway so no one else can snipe it, and I'm heading to the shop tomorrow to order some custom parts ( Read more... )

After snarking a bit about OPB members who practice sound-bytes at various pledge drive reward functions (in the hopes that they'll be read on air) during the drive up to Star Trek on Sunday, well, they read my comment on air.

I feel like I've won something, but I'm not sure what it is.

Dude, Star Trek. Yes.

Partly due to the new Star Trek movie and much to Zoe's chagrin, I've decided to rewatch the entire Deep Space Nine series. Finished the pilot on Wednesday night (fuckin' fantastic) and am working on acquring Season 3, which I apparently do not own ( Read more... )

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Decent weather, decent workouts. Only biked 15 or so miles last weekend, but I did get rained on at one point (also managed to help bag some crab - hermit and otherwise). Getting rained on when you're going to work is one thing... getting rained on when you're riding for pleasure is something else entirely ( Read more... )