Also, of course: Hi, Frank! How are you doing?

Sounds like I'm doing about as well as tommyrot.

Also, is this where I should mock myself again for being unable, for years, to realize why so many songs hated Mondays so, when Mondays were just another day in a week which starts on a Sunday?

Very simple - for those of us who are cubical dwellers (or in school), Mondays are the beginning of the work/school week. This is not necessarily the case for those in the service industry or in the creative arts.

The temptation to crawl under my desk and nap is almost overwhelming.

Yes, but then you'll have George Steinbrenner hovering around your desk and you wouldn't want that.

If you made caffeine radioactive, do you suppose it'd work better?

Oh, tommy, I hope it's the kind of tired that becomes less and less with time, and not the other way around.

As for me, it's Purim soon, so yay! Best-cookies holiday ever, and always makes me think of Cindy and her will-convert-for-food posts.

(Um, it's "yay" whenever I manage not to think about the terrorist attack last Thursday night, in fact. But let's focus of the cookies and the yay and even Mondays, instead of that.)

[Edit: here, all weeks, everybody's weeks, start on Sunday. It's even in the *name* of the day - Sunday in Hebrew is the named with the same word for "first", Monday with the word for "second" and so forth. So it was obvious - shabbat, the 7th day, day seven, was the last day of the week, and Sunday, named "first day", was the first of the following week.]

If you made caffeine radioactive, do you suppose it'd work better?

Depending on the type of coffee, it might turn you into a coffee-eating weasel. With super powers.

This is awesome:

Dance Your Ph.D. -- using no words or images, interpret your Ph.D. thesis in dance form.

Horseradish smell fire-alarm for waking up deaf people

Nelson sez, "Japanese researchers have developed a fire alarm that sprays the aroma of horseradish instead of ringing an alarm. It was effective in waking 13 out of fourteen test subjects within two minutes, deaf subjects reacting particularly quickly."

Show this to your boss!

Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity

People using the 24-inch screen completed the tasks 52% faster than people who used the 18-inch monitor; people who used the two 20-inch monitors were 44% faster than those with the 18-inch ones.

Oh yeah, Egypt's like that, with the Sunday-Thursday work week. It's always interesting to realize which things seem universal... aren't.

Another contest to come up with a caption for an illustration- this one's great: [link]