$2 each….

Babylon 5 has now made its way onto the iTunes store. Season one so far, but others are on their way. As someone who (he admits sheepishly) has only seen a handful of episodes, this is a dangerous thing.

On an unrelated note, people who do technical work are frequently called technicians, but very few people who do medical work are called medicians…..

Where is the accountability?

Came across http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4056228.html today.

So if the Justice Department is investigating Bush (ok, not him per se, but certainly his administration, and possibly him as part of it), and he has the power to deny access to the investigators, who has the power to hold him accountable? And I bring this up not only because I question our current president regularly, but because what’s to stop any president from doing this, regardless of ideology?

And in this corner….

I currently have ringside seats to the WWF’s paper bag matchup. Two cats enter, one cat leaves. Ozy (the heavyweight) and Tica (the bantamweight) are wrestling in, over, and around a fresh Stop and Shop paper bag. It’s gone back and forth as to which one has been in the bag while the other attacks, and I suspect it’ll end in a dramatic draw, and the belt will be contested by fans of both sides, leaving open the possibilty of a rematch.

Sensory Illusions…

Last Thursday I had some dental work done where they needed to numb up half my mouth. Next Thursday I have the other half done.

But this isn’t about the dental work. This is about the popsicle I had Thursday night. Because half my mouth was numbed up, it could not sense cold. But the other half could. So my brain interpreted cold on half my mouth, and automatically mapped body temperature (normal temperature) onto the other half. So it felt like I had a popsicle that was cold on one half and warm on the other. A two-temperature popsicle!

BTW, I don’t think warm popsicles will ever catch on.