So much to say, so little ambition to write it all down. I suppose the best way to do this is the time-honored tradition of bullet points. Hopefully, they won't show up as weird symbols like whenever I try to use an actual apostrophe instead of a foot mark. (also known as the "dumb apostrophe," by people who like to come up with mean names for things.)
• By now, everybody and their unibrowed cousin Willard has written a review of The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy. So I won't say much about it other than that I thought is was great and I was able to follow the story despite having never read the books. Actually, I didn't really know anything about the story prior to a few months ago when the trailer came out. I knew there had been a TV version, which I was sure that I vaguely remembered. I heard fans of Douglas Adams' work talk about how funny the story was, and it seemed to starkly contrast the dark show that I remembered from childhood. It turns out that what I was thinking of wasn't the six part BBC program, but the old Canadian-made HBO series The Hitchhicker.
• I went on a little goodwill tour of a few blogs the other day, and on Moo Alex, there's a link to Yoda's blog, which just might be the best thing ever. My favorite one is about Mace Windu's stubble. Go read it now. I'll stay here and whittle something.
Back already? Well, I couldn't really get a handle on the whole whittling thing, so I just covered an old Happy Meal toy in Sterno and set it on fire.
• Tomorrow, MIT is holding the first and only Time Travel Convention. The idea is that people in the future will have heard of the event that took place on May 7, 2005, and if time travel ever becomes a reality, they would travel back to that day to attend. The official website says technically, there only needs to be one time traveler convention. Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted. Amal Dorai, the event's coordinator, said, "The chance that anybody shows up is small, but if it happens it will be one of the biggest events in human history." It's going to rain this weekend. That's kind of a downer, since if this actually works, then every time someone goes to the Time Travel Convention they'll have to bring an umbrella.
• Speaking of potpourri, for the longest time, I used to refer to the crushed red pepper as "that potpourri-looking stuff." The waitress always knew what I was asking for.
