Tommyrot! Are you going to be able to join us tomorrow morning for breakfast?

Maybe. If I manage to get to sleep at a decent hour tonight.

ION, did you know that if you are awake at the moment 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am (when Daylight Saving Time starts), the instant of the change will seem like an eternity?

</Stephen King reference>

Thanks for reminding me about the time-change--I might have been screwed and slept in!

I woke up after a two-hour nap when Maria called, so I'm guessing I'll be awake for a bit more tonight.

Oh CRAP! Even though I'm the one that posted in Press about it, I had forgotten about the freakishly early DST until right now. I have six more comments to write before I can go to bed tonight (and 14 more tomorrow, plus preparation for the conference I'm presenting at on Monday), and I swear they're taking me half an hour each. Argh. Must. Not. Panic.

I think I have the date right. I may not, I'm notorious for that. Use DOBs for passwords (complicated variations, hackers!) so I can recall them.

OK, poll: how far back can you bend your fingers. Mine are mostly 90 degrees, individually. (Flip off and ring don't quite go that far.)

We should replace the quote at the top of the page with:

WARNING! WARNING! You lose an hour of sleep tonight! Run! Run! Save the children!

WARNING! WARNING! You lose an hour of sleep tonight! Run! Run! Save the children!

Fuck. I want this. But it's $770. Living World lets you hold the Milky Way in the palm of your hand

One of best parts of Will Smith's first slapstick-sci-fi "Men In Black" film is the part when an entire galaxy is found living inside a tiny marble. The scene was a mind-blowing moment in sci-fi history and now you can relive the cognitive dissonance too with design firm Living World's Milky Way galaxy 3D model. Created using real space data culled by Eiichiro Kokubo, Assistant Professor at Japan's National Astronomical Observatory and Osaka University's Kato Tsunehiko, the three dimensional cube encased model does indeed look you're holding an entire galaxy in the palm of your hand. But holding 80,000 laser rendered stars in your hand isn't cheap, the cube costs 80,000 yen ($770) here.

It's very pretty.

OK, poll: how far back can you bend your fingers.

Well, if I put my two hands together and then arch my fingers back, from the first knuckle up from the hand to the tip of the finger, they arch back about 35-40 percent. From where the finger joins the hand out, it's not much more (all my flexibility is in the top 2/3rds of the finger).

Sorry I woke you, Kathy. I was afraid I'd do something like that.