Hear the sound of the falling rain, coming down like an armageddon flame...

A little Green Day for Thanksgiving; and for a lighter reading, a recap of some former IgNobel winners...

• The Effect of Country Music on Suicide (Medicine, 2004)
• the dynamics of hula-hooping (Physics, 2004)
• Daisuke Inoue for inventing karaoke (Peace, 2004--"an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other")
• the founders of Murphy's Law (Engineering, 2003)
• The effects of pre-existing, inappropriate highlighting on reading comprehension (Literature, 2001)

Otherwise, I can only report that the water at the pool is gradually warming again (it was 78 today), the air temperature is up a tad (particularly since I swam when the sun was out today), and brownies after practice are a good thing.

Have a good T-day--gobble, gobble...


I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday...