Another stew

This will hopefully be a more informative, interesting post than previous ones. I'm clearly incapable of writing anything funny anymore, although I occasionally do funny things.

In relation to the last sentence, I leave you with the following advice: hot tubs and alcohol do not mix. Additional advice is that q-tips can be bad for your ears.

For the goodly Friar, my PIPD (pathetic income per day) is currently 0.4383, USD (baby!). I've developed a habit of saying "baby!" whenever I say U.S. Dollar or USD. This is probably because of my living in a country where the 2 peso bill is used mainly to roll up your fine cuban tobacco.

Alright, first off, you can apparently use Twitter to pray now. If you send a tweet to @thekotel, a kindly soul will place your prayer in the Wailing Wall. http://twitter.com/TheKotel There are also iPhone apps and so forth for finding the direction of Mecca. Yowza.

Finished The World is Flat. I think we're going to read some more Asimov as a bit of a cool down.

The primate of the week is the Emperor Tamarind. Baller:

Post/pics from the zoo tomorrow.

For those interested in computer science, I've been totally digging this site:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/puzzle/

Emailed my mayor today about the problem of Somali refugees (living in MN) returning to Somalia and becoming suicide bombers, militants, etc. Pretty sure my email will, you know, clear up that problem.

From Casey, That Yale Thing.

Also from Casey, a good ole WTF.

Tim Pawlenty... 2012?

Ostrich Racing

Bye to my sister J, see you in a few weeks. Keep rocking Long Island.