It was two episodes. The second one was Vegas, and the first one was the one with Robot Wars.

A writer (advertising & marketing) posted this a bit ago.

Work for free? [link]

Yup, Jen. Into tomorrow. eta: ice pelleting right now. Noisy.

And catching up from the day:

I hope you are feeling better, ita.

PUPPIES

Cindy McCain has come out in support of same-sex marriage.

She did that a while ago on an interview on the Daily Show. She also refused to talk about Sarah Palin, and was funny about not talking about her.

Holiday Inn in London now offers "human bed-warmer" service:

Totes agree with the ewwwww

Hot Geek Girl FCM time! FCM: Felicia Day, Rosario Dawson, or Natalie Morales

Tough one, but F Natalie, C Felicia, M Rosario

I need to watch the Guild, don't I?

JGL for the win!

mmmmm

DAMN, the About a Boy boy grew up to be gorgeous. Wow.

mmmmmmm

The new computer I was supposed to get today is now supposed to be in place before I get into work tomorrow.

I predict not doing much again tomorrow.

Also, I am really really really ready for it to stop raining.

Also also, I am drinking Magic Beer.

I need to watch the Guild, don't I?

Yes. It may make you change your answer.

Seriously, when I was in SF, Hec was teaching me about Tom Waits and Swordfishtrombones and these like, curio box type things and it led to a strange way that I listen to music now.

Really? Well, Cornell boxes are a good way to view a lot of things. (They're a key plot point in Wm. Gibson's Count Zero too.)

Incidentally, I saw the Cornell show in SF with our own Joe Boucher.

Olivia's friend's mom has gone around the bend. She is the one who is turning a fairly common toddler event into a Traumatic Scarring Thing.

Yes. It may make you change your answer.

You should remind me of that at some point.

Thanks, Perkins.

What's the weather like up there? Still dumping down here. I'm really hoping it quits soon. I might have an umbrella, but I can never remember to have it handy.

My sister just saw her first Petrellicest video. She sent me an email in confusion wondering what relation the guys were--she knew it was something that made it wrong, but she really couldn't work out why they'd possibly be touching so much. Brothers both explained it and didn't make it better.

A couple of thoughts as I checked out what you guys talked about while I was sleeping:

1. Sloths are really quite cool. I like the whole "don't get eaten by an eagle" mission statement thing. Of course, the primary reason they're so slothful is that they live on leaves, which are not nutritious. Curioiusly, "don't get eaten by a jaguar" doesn't seem to be as highly prioritised. Even if they defecate only once a week, why climb all the way down to the ground for it? Why not just let gravity do the work? That's pretty much their most vulnerable moment.

2. Emigrating to New Zealand: one thing to note is that Australia and New Zealand have reciprocal arrangements which make it very easy to move from one to the other. (Not surprisingly, the number of Aussies moving to NZ is far outweighed by the number of Kiwis coming to Oz. There are currently over 400,000 Kiwis in Australia, i.e. about 10% of their total population. There are about 40,000 Australians living in NZ.) So, if you really want to move to New Zealand, try coming to Australia first and taking out citizenship.

Note too, although NZ may have restrictive rules governing immigration, it (like Australia) is a relatively high-immigration country proportional to their population. Around 20% of New Zealand residents were born overseas, compared to 24% for Australia and around 10% for the US.

bt, what's with your country's colour sense? Why are the ballgirls and boys at the Open wearing pepto abysmal pink?