HOORAY! scientists have finally found Copernicus’ remains!

did anyone else not know that this was even an issue?

i found a 30-tablet prescription of my cancer medication this morning that was hiding in the back of my drawer. good timing because i thought i only had a few pills left and was about to get an unnecessary refill.

a refill worth USD 1130.69, i’ve just discovered.

there’s nothing quite so jarring as having your MP3 player run out of juice in the middle of a song. sure, there are much worse things out there and there are certainly things that are more shocking but i think having one of your favorite songs stop unexpectedly ranks up there with receiving a surprise slap to the face or getting shoved into a frigid swimming pool. okay, maybe it’s not that bad. it still sucks, though.

yeah, my MP3 player’s battery died on me today.

one warm summer night a couple of years ago, i decided to sleep out on the balcony for a night. i remember waking up to a bunch of office buildings and recoiling in horror because i had forgotten where i was. what a way to start the day.

man, i’d love to be able to do that again.

miserable, miserable, miserable, miserable, miserable. the weather was miserable today and Brad Pitt has an ugly face. case closed. the end.

i know i do this every year but that’s not going to stop me from complaining about how the days are getting colder and darker again. the days are getting colder and darker! blergh.

i’ll be alright, though. i’ve already been fortunate enough to skip out on a few weeks of this crappy Chicago weather by being out of town and i’m planning to miss a few more starting later this month. want to hear something weird, though? i had never traveled to warmer climates during the fall/winter months until this year. i can’t believe i wasted all those years toughing it out! running away is way easier.

about time for another short and pointless entry, don’t you think?

feeding time for the juveniles at Mamba Village, the largest crocodile farm in Africa.

and yes, they are eating dead chicks :O

i didn’t have a chance to do this yesterday, but i was going to write about the investigation of former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian and his family over their alleged corruption, forgery, money laundering and a whole slew of other equally tasty charges. Chen was handcuffed and taken to the Taipei District Court yesterday, an event met with raucous applause from people all over the world. i was also especially pleased to hear that he was beaten by a bailiff who must have enjoyed it immensely.

justice, people. justice!

a couple of months ago, i decided to pull out my old stash of Lego bricks and relive a major part of my childhood: rummaging through a pile of the stuff atop a plastic sheet on the living room floor.

i was pleasantly surprised to find several models from my childhood sitting atop the rubble when i took the lid off of the plastic tub. first there was the sleek black spaceship that my brother had made, a simple yet elegant design. then there was my response: a heavy, clumsy, oddly multicolored beast of a thing with what appears to be a rudimentary VTOL system.

guess which one usually won.