Indistinguishable from Jesse

"Something in your eyes" = poetically romantic

"Something in your eye" = allegorically judgmental

"Something in my eye" = painfully annoying

Finally, a bug-tracking system for everything. The priorities, severities, products, and components are great.

Mike Shaver and Johnny Stenback are doing their part. Are you?

The MIT City Car page says:

The City car is NOT a replacement for personal vehicles, taxis, buses, or trucks...

It may, however, be a replacement for the Segway.

Last night, while I was trying to fall asleep, it occurred to me that religious days of rest might seem arbitrary to people living near the International Date Line. I got up and searched Google for "international date line" sabbath, thinking I might at least come across someone else who had also wondered about the same thing. What I didn't expect to find was multiple pages arguing that the International Date Line is a tool of Satan. I also found a lengthy rebuttal. Who knew that datekeeping could be so controversial?

Could this be turned into a game? Perhaps one player picks a seemingly uncontroversial object or concept, and another player must invent a story or argument that makes it out to be either the root of all evil or mankind's salvation. For example:

PODASIP: Spoons are corrupting and should be eradicated.

Google suggests holding tomorrow's leak meeting on a cruise ship.

Somehow I don't think that would work very well. Leaks and ships don't get along perfectly.

David Farber's hobby (in the xkcd sense): twisting common phrases. My favorite Farberisms:

• A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.
• Don't just stand there like a sitting duck.
• He's cornered on all sides.
• I could count it on the fingers of one thumb.
• I haven't gotten the knack down yet.
• I read the sign, but it went in one ear and out the other.
• It's burned to shreds.
• It's more than the mind can boggle.
• It's the old Paul Revere bit ... one if by two and two if by one.
• Just remember that, and then forget it.
• Let's shoot holes at it.
• My mind is a vacuum of information.
• No loaf is better than half a loaf at all.
• You're blowing it all out of context.

These almost make the original clichés and idioms sound ridiculous, don't they?

Costco membership: $25.

24 large chocolate chip cookies that are almost as good as my mom's: $6.

4 bottles of Martinelli's sparkling apple juice: also $6.

Getting back at jX for weeks of referring to the apartment I'm sharing with Colin as a "gay lovenest": priceless.