i prefer pi

I get an e-mail from church with the subject line “April Usher schedule and Good Friday service question.” What kind of GMail ads do I get?

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We’ve got a ways to go on that whole “context-sensitive parsing” thing.

• If trends continue, we should see 14-blade razors by 2100. I The Economist]
• Japanese invent time machine, travel to the future, and bring this back with them. [Pink Tentacle]
• Up here, the cherry trees have already blossomed and are starting to “snow”; check on the progress in Osaka, if you’re so inclined (and you know other languages). [dottocomu]
• My cousin ran (and safely finished) the L.A. Marathon this weekend.

Riddle me this, brother: can you handle it?
Your style to my style — you can’t hold a candle to it.
Equinox, symmetry, and the balance is right:
Runnin’ and sleepin’ on a Tuesday night.

What could be easier?

• Worked about fifty hours
• Made four trips to IKEA
• Saw Crash
• Built two bookcases and a desk
• Unpacked a score of boxes
• Cleaned the children’s area at Mars Hill
• Ate one of the 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die (presumably, eating all twenty will be the cause)

My church showed Crash last night as part of their monthly Film & Theology series. What an amazing and difficult film. You can mull it over and tease out its themes and messages and inspect it and pound on it and take action upon it, and it still holds together as a work of artistic beauty. Brokeback Mountain and Crash are the same in this respect, moreso than any other films that I’ve seen in recent memory. Like any well-told story, the experience is best when you can enjoy thoughtful conversation about it afterward. I think I agree with the Academy in their selections for Best Picture and Achievement in Directing, and I recommend either film for any adult whose conscience permits them to watch.

Anyone else think that the number in the headline of this article is a bit low? By — oh, say — half a million?

This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to the internet. And it was done by AOL, no less. Words escape me.

Free, online, on-demand TV from my childhood. Hanging with Mr. Cooper. Growing Pains. Perfect Strangers. Babylon 5. Freakazoid. Head of the Class. The Adventures of Lois and Clark. Pinky and the Freaking Brain. It’s like 1988 to 1996 exploded all over my monitor, and I don’t even care that it’s WinXP-ActiveX-WMP10-only.

“Modern-Day John Henry Dies Trying To Out-Spreadsheet Excel 11.0“, from The Onion.

Solid gold.

It’s snowing!
   Well… wait… no. It’s coming down in big chunks.

It’s hailing!
   Hmm… these pellets are really soft. Not like Texas ice-hail at all…

It’s… snailing?