Sounds like a great plan, msbelle. I had a similar thought and took a walk around the upper parts of the lab today during lunch. Saw 12 deer hanging out chowing down on all the green that's everywhere since the rains, watched some orange butterflies that actually have little balls on the tips of their antennae, just like in the cartoons, and generally enjoyed the sunshine and non-rainy weather.

My lunch was good, but had 5 minutes to eat it before a big conference call. Turkey sandwich considerably less enjoyable if you have to eat an entire half without stopping for breath.

In college and law school I just skewered a marshmallow and lit it with a regular Bic, or the "Big lighter with the [click click trigger motion]."

I spent several years of college living in a badly heated dorm, and we all had electric space heaters, even though they were theoretically banned by the authorities. Many of us were known to roast marshmallows over the space heaters.

and I got drunk enough that toasting marshmallows on skewers over the burners on our gas stove seemed like a good idea.

Can't do it. We did this with hotdogs once when I was growing up, and my friend came down with strep the next day, and to our seven-year-old selves the evidence couldn't have been clearer. To this day I can't contemplate cooking something in the gas flame like that.

Matt -- I thought you were supposed to hang them like a painting?

How to cook using your car engine: Manifold Destiny

I'm having an IM conversation with someone who's lying to me. I don't know why he's bothering. He caves when I point out where he's shitting me.

tommy -- rest easy -- the Munch have been recovered.

Cool. Except no Scream yet. Hopefully this theft is related to the earlier one, and The Scream will be recovered too.

Today I learned that Munch painted multiple copies of The Scream. The copy that was stolen in 1994 was a different copy than the one stolen last year (or whenever).

eta:

Pedersen and Stensrud said the two recent Munch thefts did not appear to be linked. "There are no grounds for assuming any connection between the thefts, but we will be talking to the Oslo police about it."

"It seems to be a fashion among criminals to steal Munch," the hotel owner Salbuvik said. "How professional is it to steal art? Great value, big risk and hard to sell. They would have to be very slow in the head to do it."