Hey, I forgot to mention this at the right time (last week), but on May 18th we broke the old IMBC record of 47 consecutive days of blogging. I think the final four participants are up to 53 days now, assuming Amy, Peter, and I get our stuff up before midnight (Finley’s already done, of course).

TotD:

Will China be the next super power?

Maybe. We talked about this a lot in my Bio 201 class. It was actually the first chapter in our State of the World 2006 textbook: “China, India, and the New World Order.” It’s kind of scary to think about; 40% of the world’s population lives in those two countries, but more than half of them are moderately impoverished or worse (i.e. they survive on less than $2 per day). “Moderate poverty” is an official measurement, BTW — it’s a standard set by the World Bank. Anyway, I think it’d be presumptuous of me to try to predict China’s future… I don’t think a single macroeconomics course adequately prepares someone for that. But I will say that, based on what I know, it sounds plausible. Even though it did happen in Firefly.

I found a couple MP3s yesterday that I’d been looking for for quite a while: The Battle Programmer Shirase opening and ending themes. I sent the former to Brett and he, quite correctly, observed that the tune was identical to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. There’s only one note that’s different. I can’t believe I never noticed that before. Try comparing them yourself: Rick Astley (YouTube), Battle Programmer Shirase (YouTube). Isn’t that wild? (Tangent: I never realized Astley was white until I saw that video clip…)

Coincidentally, we watched the latest Family Guy last night and it prominantly featured Brian singing that same song. Kinda weird how that worked out…

Last night’s dinner came out pretty well. I made halibut steaks seared in bacon grease, then baked with garlic, dill, and lots of butter (and S&P, of course). Also made some Rice-A-Roni (”Broccoli au Gratin” flavor). Served all that with some corn and a roll. I realize the presentation isn’t very good (everything on the plate is some shade of brown or yellow, for one thing), but it was tasty. I love how that halibut came out.

Then, for dessert, we had chocolate cake and spumoni ice cream.

I’m going back to the Tri-Cities this weekend to do payroll and computer stuff. While there, Jones and I are gonna try to do some GURPSing. I’ve really been missing the stuff lately.

Edit: Ooh, I almost forgot: Season finale of Lost tonight! Can’t wait!

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