OK. I filled out three of six forms. More or less. I think maybe I'll draft one of the brazilian letters on my to-do list. Right now, not only are all of my tasks tedious, they're all also confusing. I hate that.

OH AND ALSO, on an opposite note to ita's invitation issue: If there is a phone number and an email given for RSVPs, you can pick one, not do both. I swear.

thump.

thump.

thump.

thump.

And a corollary for ita's meeting issue: If you have scheduled a meeting with people, do not schedule yourself into another meeting at the same time, and not tell your secretary or any of the first people.

(From John Scalzi's blog):

You know, when Michael Behe, the star witness for Intelligent Design at the Pennsylvania evolution trial, admits on the stand that the only way that ID can be considered a scientific theory is to change the definition of "theory" to such a lax standard that even astrology would qualify as a scientific theory, isn't it time to stop the trial, find for teaching actual science in biology classes, and then send a bill for the whole ridiculous affair to the idiots that changed the school policy to shoehorn ID into the classroom? Does this farce really need to go on any further?

The only value to this whole thing so far is that it got Behe to admit that in order to get ID to work, you have to cheat -- you have to make words mean different things than what they mean. You know, the science community already has a word for the new, more lax definition of "theory" Behe wishes to promote: it's called a hypothesis. Should Behe manage to get his way and change the definition of "theory," what becomes of the word "hypothesis"? Is it demoted? Discarded? Given a nice gold watch for its years of service to the scientific community and then taken behind the barn to be plugged with a shotgun? And if is merely demoted, then what will become of the phrase "drunken paranoid ramblings?" That phrase has nowhere else to go.

Totally spaced, but congrats on the job sj!!!!

I'm on hold during a conference call, and instead of Musak, I'm getting ads. This hardly seems fair.

The mug shot we've all been waiting for: [link]

The mug shot we've all been waiting for: [link]

Actually, I'm still waiting for the rousted-out-of-bed, disheveled, crazy hair and/or tighty whiteys one.

that is not a mug shot. where's the NUMBERS. hell, it could be a publicity photo with an ugly background.

That's just wrong. A mug shot shouldn't look just like your picture in the voter's guide.