World Rankings of GDP per capita
Link: CIA – The World Factbook — Rank Order – GDP – per capita (PPP) Quiz: which country has the highest GDP per capita? What countries are surely in the top 5? Answer here, then check your answer. No cheating!
Black Friday? Cyber Monday?
Between all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday, TV footage of hundreds storming Best Buy and Suburbia Mall at 5 in the morning, an excess of shopping news coverage, stores calling them Holiday Trees instead of Christmas trees, etc., I’m left wondering… what are we celebrating again? I’m not terribly religious, but there’s a message [...]
Amazing Race S12E04
Last night’s episode of The Amazing Race was… interesting. They sure are spending a lot of time in Burkina Faso, aren’t they? I won’t recap the episode for you — there are plenty of sites that do that. Instead I want to talk about the outcome. And since that’s chock-full of spoilers, you’ll want to [...]
VMW
Regarding VMWare (VMW): Nice spread of opinion there.
Crentist
Michael: Sounds like a good dentist. Dwight: Oh yeah… Michael: What’s his name? Dwight: Crentist. Michael: Your dentist’s name is crentist? Dwight: Yeah… Michael: Huh… Sounds a lot like dentist. Dwight: Maybe that’s why he became a dentist? Stuck… in… my… head… all day today.
Spooky moon & onions
The moon coming up behind our house. This happened while we were cooking onions. Who says we don’t live a rock star lifestyle?
Kenny vs Spenny is BACK
TiVo woke up the other day and recorded an episode of Kenny vs Spenny. It’s been a serious long time since that happened… at least a year, maybe? In case you’re not familiar with this show, it’s juvenile, immature, disgusting, Canadian… and you probably shouldn’t watch the first few new season episodes while you’re eating. [...]
Black Friday
Did anyone within the sound of my voice here do any shopping of any kind on Black Friday? Brick & mortar or online? What was your experience?
Bob
News: Newschannel 8 anchor Bob Hite arrested for DUI Oh, Bob. Bob Bob Bob. So close to retirement, too.
Short week update
I feel like it’s been dark, rainy, and cold for weeks, even though it’s only been four days. Tomorrow’s supposed to be a little better, with a forecast of only dark and rainy, without the cold. So there’s that. Stopped by McDonald’s today for the first time since… well… the last time. For some reason [...]