With all the Afghanistan chatter around here, I thought that those of us who want to talk about something else should have a bit of a safe haven. I'm not trying to make light of the speech / decisions...I just thought it'd be nice to have an alternative :)
I don't really have much of an agenda for this thread, except a few random observations, such as:
A visit to redbox to rent a cheapo DVD shows just how many bad movies there are. I scrolled through 100 movies and decided to save the $1 and rewatch Finding Nemo.
I saw a blurb today in Science magazine that ~ 1500 GIGATONS of glacier has melted off of Greenland in the last 10 years. My labmate and I did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation and figured that about 5 x 10^17 megacalories of energy went into the phase transition. That's a lot of heat that was used! That calculation is subject to a rather high degree of error from estimation.
Black Friday deals are easier to snag at 6 PM rather than 6 AM. I'd rather be asleep at 6 AM!
I'm a fan of the Patriots, and I can play the "what-if" game all I want for yesterday's game, but it won't change the basic fact: The Pats were going to get their ass handed to them, no matter what.
I think The Daily Show's take (Real Asswipes) was better than Colbert's take on the whole "couple who shall not be named" issue.
Angels and Demons got better reviews than The Da Vinci Code. Watched both for the first time, over the weekend, and as is typical for my wife and I, we liked Da Vinci Code better.
Feel free to make this a nice and random blog, as a safe haven from all the serious stuff.