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I've heard Frankie Valli's "My Eyes Adored You" a few dozens of times over the years, and yet I never managed to hear the title lyrics correctly. Mind you, he does kinda swallow the last two words, but I'd always thought it was "My Sweet Georgia" (as in, a woman named Georgia). But I finally heard it today with a front-sell (oldies stations tend to not front-sell or back-sell songs, on the not-unreasonable assumption that the audience already knows what the songs are..."songs you know" is a frequent ad line for them).

As frustrated as many of us may be with the slow (or no) pace at which Obama undoes the damage wrought by the Bush Administration, it may be that we're a little too close to the issue. At least as far as the Nobel committee is concerned, Obama's already come a long way towards keeping things from getting a lot worse, even if he hasn't made things better yet.

In other words, while we're annoyed he hasn't built a bridge across the bottomless pit yet (and seems in some ways content to leave the pit just as it is), some parts of the world are delighted that that car approaching the pit has at least slowed down, if not stopped.

ETA: It was pointed out to me over on Facebook that one thing Obama has accomplished so far has been to get Russia to stop pointing missiles at Norway. Where they vote on the Nobels. So, y'know....

UC Davis gets grant to develop a solid forensics basis for comparison of duct tape tears. The idea being that a tear in duct tape (used, say, to bind up a hapless superchica) is as identifiable as fingerprints or ballistics markings. So better start using scissors....

Electrical transformer went offline at work, just before 4 lab classes were about to start. Whee! My office has no windows, so with no power to do computer work (no WiFi either, and I don't have any work related stuff loaded on my EEE) and no light to do non-computer work, I have repaired to the comic shop and its WiFi.

Got it for $10 at Tuesday Morning. A piece of crap, sadly (was kinda hoping it'd be at least worth $10, but other than the amusement value of the packaging, it's not).

Still, the tagline just writes itself, doesn't it? "Looking for a way to dice vegetables easily and conveniently? Well, if you ask me, I'd Tap-That!"

( Bonus Monsterpocalypse Motivator Poster )

thandrak was looking for a transformation scheme for an Imperial Star Destroyer, so I sketched this up. Color added just to make it obvious which part went where without having to, you know, draw carefully. :)
( That, or this is commanded by the Hello Kitty Vader )

After being hit by several damage-over-time effects and fleeing into the sky while stealthed.