Did you know you don’t get credited (or even a thank you note) when you send news items to Slashfood? I submitted something last night and they ended up running it this morning. But they didn’t mention their source or even send a “we used your submission” message. Kinda lame. It’s weird how the Slashfood people act that way while the Boing Boing editors, who are way more famous (frequently showing up on CNN, NPR, and the Colbert Report), still find the time to respond to most emails. You’d think courtesy would be inversely proportional to popularity, right?

Pink Martini’s new album, Hey Eugene!, came out on the 15th. Dosvedanya Mio Bambino is just as awesome as I remembered it from last summer’s concert in Woodinville. (Gotta get the other tracks from Brett — I don’t want to lower my ratio on OiNK if I can avoid it.)

The Office finale was terrific. Best quotes:

Karen: Pam… is kind of a bitch.

Angela: No, Dwight! I don’t care if that’s how they consolidated power in ancient Rome!

The implications of that last one are pretty scary/hilarious — as if Dwight had actually made the suggestion before, probably multiple times. Oh, I also loved the back-and-forth between Stanley and Dwight about the exchange rate of Schrutebucks to Stanley nickels; “Probably about the same as unicorns to leprechauns.” Heh.

I was a little uneasy about the path the writers would take with this whole “corporate position” plot. If you’ve seen the UK version, you know that it turned out pretty unpleasantly. Still, I thought giving it to Ryan was kind of a cop-out because it didn’t force them to deal with the more dramatic consequences of giving the job to one of the first-tier characters. But I guess they already sort of did that when Jim transferred to the Stamford branch, so it’s forgiveable.

You know there are no Google results for “creedthoughts”? I’m surprised. That was one of the great things about Arrested Development — they always made up funny sites for any URL they mentioned in the show. I mean, obviously the .gov thing isn’t really doable, but still, seems odd they didn’t at least pick up a .com for advertising purposes. Really, if HornyManatee.com can get 20 million hits in one week, creedthoughts.net has got to be worth a couple hundred bucks.

/checks creedthoughts.com availability on NameCheap

Yeah, it’s taken. Bah.

I’ve been working on a cross-section of a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) structure in SketchUp. It’s looking pretty keen, if I do say so myself, but OMG it’s hard to design stuff that hugs the wall in that thing. Just doing it for a cylinder (like the mini-O’Neill habitat I modeled) is pretty tough. But when you have to account for curves on two axes it gets to be a little much for SU. The tools for this stuff just aren’t there.

Re: TotD: I don’t know about a dream vacation, but I would like to visit the Mammoth Cave System in Kentucky someday.

Last night I dreamed I was helping JD (the Pasco guy) move into a log cabin with holes in the roof. The pattern on a random comforter (cerulean blue with bright gold crescent moons and compass roses) was unusually vivid.

(Tangent: Cerulean blue is “bleu céleste” in French, which literally translates as “celestial blue.”)

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