why are you wearing pleated pants?

Because I like them. So there.

IMDB also reports that the James Bond decision will be made soon (yeah, right), and that the front runners (this precise minute) are: Pierce, Daniel Craig, Henry Cavill, Sam Worthington, and Visnjic.

I gotta say -- Cavill's not quite a Backpfeifengesicht -- it's more of a backhand slap he's crying out for.

tommyrot, the problem is that I need the data divided by sex, department, degree, and title and then I need the median of the data for each group.

Huh. I thought Brosnan was out of the running?

Yeah, if I were Brosnan, I'd be pissed to be "in the running."

Speaking of the NHL controversy, there's this bizzare kerfluffle involving the visitor's locker room at Nile Kinnick stadium. [link]

The pink visitors' locker room at the University of Iowa's stadium is making some people see red.

Several professors and students joined the call Tuesday for the athletic department to do away with the pink showers, carpeting and lockers, a decades-long Hawkeye football tradition.

Critics say the use of pink demeans women, perpetuates offensive stereotypes about women and homosexuality, and puts the university in the uncomfortable position of tacitly supporting those messages.

''I want the locker room gone,'' law school professor Jill Gaulding told a university committee studying the athletic department's compliance with NCAA standards, including gender equity.

For decades, visiting football teams playing at Kinnick Stadium have dressed and showered in the pink locker room. The tradition was started by former Iowa coach Hayden Fry, a psychology major who said pink had a calming and passive effect on people.

The CommanderBond.net site claimed that Sony executives will be meeting with Eon Productions execs next week in London, where the decision will be made. It said that while Pierce Brosnan had been removed from the running months ago, he now not only is being considered to star in the 21st Bond film, but that he is regarded as the frontrunner. "A senior Sony executive has told a member of the Casino Royale production team that the new Bond will 'probably' be Pierce Brosnan," the website said.

I used to use MSAccess and I wish I could help but my MSAccess skills are rusty. Well, not so much rusty as the neurons have completely rusted out and fallen off my brain like an old tailpipe.

"A senior Sony executive has told a member of the Casino Royale production team that the new Bond will 'probably' be Pierce Brosnan," the website said.

For what value of "new", exactly?

God, people are stupid.

I figured out a way to make a report do it, but that makes it in the least useful format possible, and for some reason I can't even export it to Excel to make it at all more useful. Ffffuck.

IKEA opened its second Chicago-area store today in Bolingbrook (Chicago Tribune reg req'd), and some guy flew in and camped out front for the past 15 days to be the first person in. He did this knowing that the company has a history of rewarding the first customers at a new store, and sure enough, he got a $3000 gift certificate.

BTW, he didn't buy anything today.