You may ask yourself, "Is this real? This can't be real.  Is it?"    But it is. It's real and it's awesome.

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(Seriously, if you haven't seen this yet, you need to. And if you have, then why haven't you told me about it? Jerk.)

A whole day dedicated to fireworks, eating burgers, defeating a tyrannical empire, and our general awesomeness.

And, of course, it brings to mind one of my favorite Issac Asimov columns-- from March, 1991, on the Star Spangled Banner.  (I could've done with a little more background on the War of 1812, with the British impressment of American sailors ( Read more... )

Closing is supposedly next week.  I'm getting excited.  I mean, excited as I can get while putting everything I own that isn't already boxed up into boxes.  And dreading the (two or three days of?) moving all my stuff.  And the decisions of where to put it all ( Read more... )

That's all I have today.