I just got a jury duty summons.

For less than a week before I go to the Galapagos.

Condolences.

If it helps any, when I was summoned for jury duty, the judge was very ready and willing to excuse for prior commitments, including travel plans.

He did not, however, automatically excuse lawyers from the jury pool, and in the one jury I ended up on that was for a criminal case there were THREE lawyers. The court clerk commented to us during a break that he had never seen that before, it was rare for even one lawyer to make it through voir dire.

YJudgeMV.

There is nothing wrong with an art calendar in the bathroom! It's ahhhht.

Damn you, wee Jesse! You made me remember an interview with a new Red Sox guy, name of Mark Loretta. He comes from someplace like california, but he reported being fully prepared for his new Boston life by a friend of his from New Hampshire. He said, "I know, I know, they'll call me Mahhhk. I'm ready for it."

Little does he know his last name will be pronounced "Loretter."

Seth Green is a little bundle of freckled brilliance.

Who needs a better picker.

Seth Green is a little bundle of freckled brilliance.

Who needs a better picker.

I don't understand "picker" in this context.

Picker of projects to pursue, I'm guessing.

I think his character is the cutest of the bunch (perhaps because he's the only one with a personality), but the woeful overwriting is even worse in his case. He really doesn't need all those lines to get the points across. They're so not complicated points.

Picker? Thing what picks. Like, shows. He didn't need to have picked this one.

Watching CSI, and dude, you guys missed an entire room??? Someone better be embarassed.

Ah. For some reason I read that as a separate question-- Who needs a better picker?, instead of a continuation of the previous sentence.

TDS's coot-off is oen of the funniest things I've seen since Lazy Sunday. Oh, how I laughed.

Hollywood superstar Kevin Spacey has been named on a list of famous gays and lesbians being used to educate students in British schools. The actor, who has never discussed his sexuality despite rumors he is gay, is named alongside Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams and Irish TV presenter Graham Norton on documents offered to UK schools by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender group, which is part funded by the government. Organizer Paul Patrick says, "We double check our material carefully but Mr. Spacey's name got through. I don't know how; it will be withdrawn. It should not have happened and we apologize."

Oooh.

Color Test: the old left/right brain struggle

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