The hockey game last night was wonderful. The Thrashers got clobbered 7-1, but it was great all the same. I was in the next-to-cheapest section of seats, but was right center behind home goal and elevated enough that I could see the whole ice easily. The next time I go, I’ll request the same seats. Section 303, Row J or less, seat 17ish.

I’m going to go see the Atlanta Thrashers host the Detroit Red Wings tonight. I’m quite excited – I’ve seen many NHL games on TV, but this’ll be my first one to watch in person.

The Church of Mentos doesn’t like the new ad campaign. They just don’t have the little lessons of life in them that they used to. Plus, they’re just not all that fresh.

Japan Braces for New Round of Monster Attacks

TOKYO – In the wake of last Thursday’s nuclear accident at Tokaimura, Japanese police and military forces are rapidly mobilizing for what many officials fear could be the worst wave of giant monster attacks in Japanese history.

Here’s a nice summary of Waiting for Godot , one of my favorite plays. I’m hoping to direct this in the Spring, but I won’t know for several months if I get the slot.

You’ve got a friend in cheeses!

This last weekend I tried to make some Feta, but the goat milk I was using just didn’t curd correctly. I suspect it was just too processed, so I’ll have to find a local supply of fresh milk and try again. I was able to make a nice herbed soft goat cheese out of it, so it wasn’t a total loss. Next week: Gouda and Cheddar.

The Brunching Shuttlecocks did a rating of Paleolithic Webpages, and included The Garden of Eden:

Eve Astrid Andersson was the original Hot Web Babe, based on the fact that she was female, had a Web page, and had memorized hundreds of digits of pi. Andersson’s star has been eclipsed, sadly enough, by the hundreds of pay-per-peek Web sites with “cam” in the name, but know that there was once a time when a woman’s attractiveness on the Web was measured not by how much skin she flashed at her QuickCam, but by how many numbers she could stuff into her brain at once.

I’ll take a brain stuffed with numbers over a bit of flashed skin any day. But I guess that’s just me.

SEE amazing turtles on Mars!
DODGE flying fists at AGU meetings!
WALK barefoot in warm Martian puddles (but keep that skimask on)!
All this and more can be yours at Holger Isenberg’s Mars News

This American Life (my favorite Public Radio show) was quite good last night. Titled Invisible Worlds , it discussed eavesdropping on radio transmissions, investigating places you’re not suppossed to see, and the power of unspoken conversations. Most This American Life episodes can be heard in RealAudio on the show’s website.

“Come on out kids!” “Are you going to destroy us?” “Yes.”