Here's today's mathy trivia: On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

or if you are in the UK, that happens on May 4th!

Just heard back from the guy at the apartment-hunting service who showed me a few places on Friday and was going to show me a few more tonight. Found out that the "few more" for tonight would have only been one, and it was a garden level, which I'm not interested in, so no apartment-looking tonight.

Tomorrow night, there's an open house at the apartment I looked at on Friday that I liked (well, actually I looked at another 1BR in the same building, since the one that opens up on 5/1 was still occupado), so we're meeting there and I can get some queries I have about the place answered. It's about $25/mo more than I would have liked, but it's on the first floor up the stairs, is plenty big enough for most of my stuff, has a nice big new kitchen, and has a washer and dryer at the bottom of the back stairs (no more having to walk down the alleyway to get my clothes clean). Also, if I come into some extra cash, there is reserved parking available behind the building for $95/mo (but in the meantime, street parking is easily found for a city parking sticker of $60/year). There's not many other units available in Evanston for a 5/1 start lease, so I might not do too much more apartment hunting.

There's a video interview with Daniel V up at the Bravo website. The constant buffering means that I cannot even understand what he is saying -- it's been so disconnected.

Okay, after it went all the way through once, I played it again and it's okay. Also, there are updates from Chloe and Santino.

01:02:03 04/05/06

Don't forget 06/06/06.

sumi, can you post a direct link to those videos? For some reason, Bravo's home page doesn't load right for me.

Daniel V --- the updates for Chloe and Santino are interview's in Andy's Blog -- which are linked to on the same page as Daniel V's video interview.

Happy Birthday, Tom!

Interesting spin on a travel pillow. It's hella ugly, and I wonder how much work it is to inflate. Still, as someone who likes to sleep on planes, I like the angle they're coming from.

Go Scola! Go Scola! It's your birthday!

Dunno if anyone linked this during solar eclipse discussion, but here [link] is a really cool catalog showing the paths of eclipses over the earth from forever ago, through forever from now. For example, here is [link] 2001-2020.