Wow. Just, wow. Apparently there are phone companies whose marketing revolves around the anti-Christian nature of their competitors ... "AT&T sponsors child pornography?" "No, that's MCI." Oh, my goodness. The blog has a link to an mp3 of the phone conversation.

"Keep in mind, we're talking about a person who two total assholes find rude."

Yup, there's a reason I'm still reading Penny Arcade. And it does mesh with everything else I've ever heard about Harlan Ellison.

So, I'm gonna jump on the Chicagoan freshman no longer in Chicago bandwagon, and declare that "Chicago style pizza" in New England sucks. Yay for pointless hometown pride! Oh, and I've already been chastised for my 'adventurous' taste in food. I went out to eat with two friends who don't eat Chinese. Or Thai. Or Indian. Or any Asian, really (and one of 'em is vegetarian, to boot!). As Jane said, "Dude, you're from Chicago. You're really not a Midwesterner". But I have a few friends with whom I will probably be making dim sum runs in the next few weeks. Seriously, though, does cheapo Chinese count as "adventurous"? I mean, we're talking one step up from Panda Express here! (Disclaimer: I do like Panda Express; however, it is Chinese the way a McDonald's hamburger is German).

In other news, it looks like there are some companies looking for interns here with exactly my skillset. Gonna have to seriously brush up on the Java, though.

Oh, and I'm gonna try AdSense. I seriously doubt I'll break $5, or whatever the threshhold is to get a check sent, but ... meh. Why not? Give me a click if you feel like it (although, by saying this, I am in no way encouraging repeated manual clicking or other fraudulent behavior</CYA>).

EDIT: Got my first comment spam today. A reasonably polite one, but I won't paste it here b/c I don't feel like giving this twerp any google points.

"Insurgents 'inside Iraqi Police'", according to the BBC. I'm sorry, was this supposed to be a surprise or something? Newsflash: my 12 year old brother could've guessed that!

I love the "loading" messages on whereis.mit.edu. Stuff like, "Please wait ... we're testing your patience", or "Please wait ... it's still faster than you could draw it".

Ian's 1st Rule of Psychohistory: If form-filling is occuring in a given room and a given person is the only one in said room with a laptop, then the presence of uniformed individuals notwithstanding, said person will be the recipient of at least three completed forms for every ten minutes spent in said room.

So I had to choose between German and my ultra-cool Disease and Society in America class. Bye-bye, D&S. Stupid Solid-State Chemistry. Buggrit.