Today sucks. And people suck. And winter. Winter sucks.

I should watch that vid again in a couple minutes.

Damn it. I should have loaded that vid onto my iPod. What was I thinking?!

It looks like it's stopped snowing, at least downtown.

I think I'll go heat up my lunch and then read Fandom Wank.

I'm still waiting for the gale force (huh, I wonder if that's a defined value) winds from hell to descend.

Right now it is the same drippy warm gray it's been all morning.

It's 63 freaking degrees here in MA. We were supposed to have plunged into the 30s today, but it sounds like the cold decided to linger in the Midwest and try the patience of many Chicagoans.

Just wait, we'll be miserable next. But in the meantime, I'm going to find an excuse to take a long walk on my lunch hour....

Petite, portable, potent potables!

I'm still waiting for the gale force (huh, I wonder if that's a defined value) winds from hell to descend.

We got a building-wide announcement to shut the windows because of the wind. Granted, it's almost always windy by my building (on the water, tall buildings, etc.), but still!

A rather delightful review of the Zune, Microsoft's answer to the iPod.

I'm not interested in the Zune, but I've been curious as to what Microsoft came up with and boy it seems like they blew it. IMO the worst feature of the iPod is the vendor lock-in that comes with it, so Microsoft sets up the exact same thing only with a much worse user experience. The wireless thing sounds like it would be cool if it wasn't essentially useless as implemented.

Heh. This morning I was worried that the wind would iceblast the makeup off my face and I'd have to go to work looking like a pathetic, grumpy clown.

I was watching NCIS the other night for the first time with the current season, and I saw to my mild dismay that they've decided to give Gibbs an antagonist in the form of a female director who has a romantic history with him. My word, how original. They're doing it on Bones, too.

Then I got to thinking. It used to be that it would be a fellow agent or something, but with a character like Gibbs on NCIS you need someone with significant personal power to be a proper foil. Therefore, a woman with influence.

This is an interesting trend. TV is now showing us women in charge of important operations without making a big deal of the fact that they're women "in a man's job". It's not like the days of Capt. Kirk having flings with the Lieutenant Of The Week. The women today are expected to be competent and powerful in order to be a proper interest to the hero.

I like it.

edit because while McGee is oodles of fun, he's flirting with Abby, not the director.

I like the idea of Lauren Holly's role on NCIS. The execution of it, not so much.