So how long before Google turns evil?

It might actually take a while, as I think they have "Don't be evil" in their mission statement.

How to get a Gulp Cap? Well, if you know someone who's already been "gulped," they can give you one. And if you don't know anyone who can give you one, don't worry ? that just means you aren't cool. But very, very (very!) soon, you will be.

Okay, the room is spinning. Lightly when I'm upright, but very heavily when I lie down. Which really messes with my choice of not-at-work options.

But I'll work from here anyway, and pray this all clears up in less than 10 hours for many reasons, not least of all the incipient nausea and need to do more instructor training.

More from tommy's link:

a Saturn, the offbeat brand of choice for aficionados who skew heavily Democratic, by 39 to 11 among last year's car buyers. Mr. Kaus says they appeal to Democrats because they are "clunky, Earth Shoe-like cars."

SATURN owners were also prone to put their Democratic loyalties on display, at least according to a count undertaken by Political Bumpers, which was billed as "an extremely unscientific" project undertaken near the end of the presidential campaign last year.

I've been driving Saturns for over 10 years.... Before that, a Nissan....

Okay, the room is spinning. Lightly when I'm upright, but very heavily when I lie down. Which really messes with my choice of not-at-work options.

Yikes. Are you sick? Or really drunk?

ION - from Wired:

No. 1's in the House
Here's one of those secrets no one ever tells prospective home owners: Watch out for pools of urine. Bradley and Maggie Parker shelled out thousands of dollars to have Ryan Homes build their Ohio dream house. While visiting the construction site, however, the couple stumbled upon rivulets of urine on the floors and more of the same seeping under the walls in various parts of the house. The waste products were apparently left by construction workers who were loath to walk to the nearest portable toilet. "It was so shocking at first," Maggie Parker said. "Then it was an overwhelming feeling of disgust." Ryan Homes refused to give the Parkers their deposit back after the peeved pair decided not to move in. The Parkers have since filed suit.

Ew. Part of me wonders if they made up the urine thing to get out of buying the house. But presumably (if they're filing suit) they'd have documented the urine with photos and what-not.

Where are you headed Sheryl?

Toronto, Laura. We're going to FilKOntario.(a filk con)

The cynical part of me thinks that urine would be about the easiest thing evah to fake for lawsuit documentation if one were running a scam. They could have a beer bust and then go to the construction site in the middle of the night.

Yesterday, the hotel maid who was making up the room for me asked if I'd heard about Terry Schiavo. I said yes cautiously, because I didn't know if it was a hot button issue for her, but she said that she was happy the poor girl was at rest now, and said that her parents were wrong in trying to keep clinging to her like that. "And fifteen years... you'd think if there was going to be a miracle, there would have been one," she added. So my un-scientific survey of African-American Mid-Atlantic church-going working moms shows that they're more sensible than CNN....

Personally, one thing about the uninvolved uninformed political harping over this that I really like is that the current administration's obstinacy and tendency to ignore information they don't like is for once blowing up in their faces. The Bushes seem curiously unaware that 89% of the populace believes they should have butted the hell out from the beginning. To get more than 89% of the people in this country to agree on anything you'd need a Nazi saluting the swastika and talking about breathing room.

Disconcerting sign of faith of the day: I was crossing the street this morning, and a semi was pulled up at the crosswalk to wait for the light. On the front bumper, either on the biggest bumper sticker I've ever seen or custom painted was "Believe in the Lord Jesus your Savior and be saved."

I thought, "That's a mildly disturbing thing to see coming up in your rearview mirror (assuming you could read it reversed). I wonder if there's an 'or else' implicit in that?" After all, a couple of hundred tons of metal coming up on your tailpipe, advising you that it's time to be saved? I saw "Duel."

msbelle, you know you can get (or could, they are probably on clearance now) bright!red! peeps at target? They were obscene.

I don't wanna do my end-of-month work. But I suppose I should.