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So, uh, get him to the Church on time. Well, actually it’s Sunday afternoon, but “afternoon” is one syllable too many. Sorry- Like the last few posts I based the title of the post on part of a song, although this time it’s not verbatim.

I’m not certain how this whole thing works. This’ll be the first wedding that I’ve ever been to. Or, the first one I remember going to. I seem to vaguely remember my Aunt getting married, but I don’t think I went to the ceremony. I don’t even know what to wear, but I’m sure my friends will fill me in on all of the important details. I still haven’t met Mikey’s bride-to-be yet, but my Mom has- she arranged their honeymoon. We offered to take Mikey out tonight, but he’s going out with his best man- who none of us “High School” friends (you can tell who we are because we call him “Mikey” and not “Mike”) know. Hopefully we’ll have some time to hang out a bit with Mikey saturday or something, because I’m pretty sure that the night of the wedding he’ll be… “getting busy” …filling out a marriage license. What? What did you think I meant?

I haven’t bought his gift yet - I’m getting it tonight. I’m not sure what I’ll get him, but I think I’m going to get him a red crowbar. Or, if they’re out of those, I’ll get him a gluon gun or tau cannon. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you’ve obviously never attended one of our LAN parties.

**UPDATE**

My Dad reminded me that I have been to a wedding - his. I’m glad he’s not a woman, otherwise he’d never let me forget that I forgot. Anyway, the reason I didn’t think of it is because it wasn’t really a “traditional” wedding. It was on a beach instead of in a church, and sandals were required attire. I wonder if Mikey would be cool with me wearing sandals to his wedding?

People are not wearing enough hats.

I’m sitting here in the lab at school after class, and a few of the guys have brought in Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” and are watching it on the big screen with the projector.

It’s a bit of a surreal experience to be sitting here and have people walk in and see John Cleese demonstrating how to have sex on a large screen where there are normally powerpoint presentations.

**UPDATE**

They’re now watching Life of Brian.  Awesome.

Hmm. Looks like Iran has missiles that can target Europe… care of North Korea. Great. Yes, it certainly seems like that was a good idea. Oh, and a “thanks a bunch” goes to Russia for letting the North Koreans have them in the first place. Then again, all it takes is a look back to some Arms deals with the middle east made during the 80s to see that we’ve all done things we regret. I’d chide Germany on the whole “World Wars” and “Genocide” thing, but I imagine that they’re already pretty sorry about that.

Speaking about world affairs, Scott Adams has been discussing Iraq a little in the Dilbert Blog. As usual, he brings up some good points regarding that. I really don’t see the “we attacked for Oil” theory being valid, since oil prices are higher now than before the war. I also don’t think the “They’ve got WMDs, let’s get ‘em” theory as valid, since Iran and especially North Korea are pretty much in the same situation as Iraq was before the war (**UPDATE** It has been brought to my attention that North Korea may already have nuclear weapons, and that’s why we didn’t attack them.  Well, can’t we starve them out?  What exactly does North Korea have that UN member countries need?  Boycott it until they stop developing nuclear weapons and let in UN inspectors, or if they don’t they’ll be forced to invade another country (South Korea?  It won’t be China!) for resources, and then the international community would be justified in using violence to put them in their place because they could have easily avoided all the problems by not being stupid and letting in inspectors). Except instead of letting UN inspectors in to the country, letting them look around a little, and then throwing them out, they pretty much admit that they’re researching nukes. Or in the case of Iran, “Nuclear Electrical Power”. Which is desperatly needed there, because it’s not like they have an ocean of oil underneath them or anything. Oh wait-they do. I think that there should be a rule- that you don’t get nuclear technology until women can vote (in a bikini if they want to. In fact, I encourage this) without getting shot at.

Bikini Babe Balloting Booths - Because you know you want infidel technology.

I don’t have much time, but I wanted to start this whole daily post thing off right and not skip a day. So, It’s going to be pretty short.

I like Scrubs. I just finished watching the episode that aired last night, and I think that like M*A*S*H, it does a good job of switching between being funny and being serious. I’d have to say that it’s probably the best sitcom on TV. Especially now that Arrested Development is gone. Though, neither of those shows is especially sitcom-ish, which is probably why I think they’re so good. Yet the networks keep producing sitcom after sitcom, and reality show after reality show. I guess that the majority of people that watch TV are mindless buffoons that don’t like to think about what they watch. Maybe that will change as my generation gets older, but I doubt it. I don’t see any reason why we’ll be different than the last generation when we get older, but I hold out hope when I see that shows that do well in my demographic are generally shows that I like. Then I see the ratings for American Idol and the taste of bile arrives in my mouth.

The mean (average) temperatures here recently have been pretty nice. I was wearing sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt. Then yesterday the weather turned mean (evil). I didn’t get home until around midnight, and of course my window was still all the way open. Still, I enjoyed another night with the heavy blanket on my bed and cold sheets before we arrive at summer and I have to sleep with the fans on all the time. Honestly, the weather last night reminded me of late october/early november. At 10:30 this morning it was still 40 degrees! But it’s warm out in the sun, and the temperatures have increased to around 55 now. I attribute this to the greater number of photons per square inch hitting the earth now than in January, and not to some “Sister Star” of the sun, which we haven’t discovered yet because, I guess, it ducked behind Jupiter whenever we looked for it. Or something.

Hey- Go Barenaked Ladies! Finally, someone in the industry is starting to have a problem with the RIAA! Too bad nobody in the US is man enough to man enough to step up.

Do you like how I contrasted manliness with barenaked ladies? I do.

That’s it for now! I guess it wasn’t too short afterall. I’ll keep trying this once-a-day post thing, as long as I have stuff to talk about!

**UPDATE**

My Dad is keeping me on my toes: I meant the Northern Hemisphere gets a higher number of photons per square inch.  Not the whole earth.  The Northern Hemisphere gets a higher number of photon/square inch becuase it is angled towards the sun, so any given section of a plane with it’s normal vector pointing towards the sun will cover less ground in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere at this time of year, so the photons are more concentrated.  The TOTAL number of photons hitting the earth would actually be less now than in the winter, since the earth is further from the sun now than it is then.

So I was thinking: Hmm… I should update my blog. I wish there were some time that I had access to a computer and “da interwebs” as the kids are calling it these days, where I could take a few minutes each day to post. I should force myself onto a regular-ish schedule, so that the people (read: one person, maybe, at most) that read this blog don’t have to wait several weeks between updates.

Well, thanks to the fact that I regularly bring my laptop to lunch with me so that I can watch TV shows while I eat, and given that my lunch hour is about 20 minutes longer than an hour-long tv show shown without commercials, and since some schmuck here at the Union thinks that turning off the DHCP server on his wireless router makes it secure, and since I am a 1337 H4×0rz or whatever and know the default gatway IP for linksys routers… Well all of the conditions seem met.

So, don’t expect these little updates to be very long, but I’m going to try to write a blog entry at lunch every day for a while. I’m not sure exactly what I’ll talk about, but I read several blogs daily:

• Bad Astronomy Blog
• Cosmic Log
• Dilbert Blog
• Damn Interesting

I figure if they can do it, so can I. But, I’m not sure what I should say in my first post. I think I’ll talk about how I’m trying to do a daily blog now, how a came around to that decision, and then link to several blogs that I read daily. What do you think?