Link: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs « strange maps Found this interesting map via fark. It’s a fantastic visual for how we stack up economically against the rest of the world. Go us.

I’ve been officially blogging for over five years now. I was looking through the Rabidmonkey archives, which I restored from backup last week, and my first entry was on 4/22/2002. That seems like a lifetime ago. I was still in my 20′s, if you can imagine. I feel like I’ve run out of things to [...]

Tobias Funke Wallet 1 Originally uploaded by whodatrd Tobias Fünke: Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over – an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist. Tobias Fünke: No, no, it’s pronounced a-nal-ra-pist. Buster: It wasn’t really the pronunciation that bothered me. How great is this? I saw this [...]

Take a moment to remember the brave men who stormed the beaches of Normandy on this day in 1944.

It was rainy/miserable yesterday, so Sherri and I watched The Two Towers and Return of the King… extended-cut DVD versions. That’s a crapload of orcs, trolls, elves, dwarfs, and hobbits. We basically started a little before 2pm and quit when Sherri couldn’t stay awake anymore. And she wanted to start with Fellowship! Good thing we [...]