moving a little slow this morning, but I did sleep well once I actually got to sleep. The house is mostly clean and has spring flowers and that is a good thing going into the weekend.

Review of Squid Crackers: [link]

I had a need to test, and as the bag said, "If you think of test, please try squid cracker," so I complied. The initial odor is that of a 3-day-old fish market in a third world, or at least the section of the fish docks where the chum isn't even processed. Once you're over that, the rest of the chip isn't that bad. It comes looped together in deep-fried curls of 3 or more strands, which can only be assumed to be squid strands. The actual consistency is that of cheap styrofoam. And I mean cheap, as in not the high-quality foam used to protect electronic equipment; it's more the sytrofoam used to protect $2 Christmas ornaments. The actual taste is that of dead fish, not really squid as the bag promises. It's also not the taste of say, dead grilled salmon, more like the dead fish that didn't make it into shore via net, but rather was carried in by the tide. That's about it. It tastes like dead fishy styrofoam.

Huh, my ESPN bracket for the NCAA is in the top 1% of entries and all four of my final four teams are still alive. My odds of winning may well be in the 1 in 5000 range instead of the 1 in 5,000,000 range at the start. Not exactly holding my breath, but still kinda fun.

Sorry Duke fans. There's always next year. Yay LSU ! Whitefont for all of those people on time delay March Madness.

Yay Gud. Not easy to still be in it with the upsets so far.

So my check engine light came on while I was driving home from work last night. I'm just going to weep into my coffee mug now.

Actually, going by my ranking I'm in the top 0.1% of entries since there appear to be roughly 5,000,000 entries. Cool, odds are I'm mathmatically eliminated, but it doesn't tell you that.

Sorry, shrift. When mine came on it turned out to be an $80 sensor replacement. Also, you could just have gotten some bad gas or didn't screw your gas cap on tightly enough. (Or you need a new gas cap--I got one for ~$11.) So it might not be a huge thing.

My check engine light also came on after I had a cylander head replaced--the mechanics had knocked the sensor wiring out when working on other stuff. Is this the car that the mechanics wrecked? It could be a 5 minute, free tweak.

OK, I'm gonna whitefont this just to be safe:

Man severs own penis, throws it at officers

Before cops threw the book at him, Jakub Fik threw something unusual at them -- his penis.

Fik, 33, cut off his own penis during a Northwest Side rampage Wednesday morning. When confronted by police, Fik hurled several knives and his severed organ at the officers, police said. Officers stunned him with a Taser and took him into custody.

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More possibly useful info from the article:

Dr. Greg Bales, associate professor of urology at the University of Chicago, said severed penises are uncommon but surgery usually works.

"As long as the penis is placed on ice and reattached within a few hours, the success is usually pretty good," Bales said.

That's just effed up, tommyrot.