This past weekend was wonderful. Friday night after work I got to cuddle w/ Fritz while watching Battlestar Galactica. Saturday we went tuxedo shopping with Adi and Anna (Fritz is going to be the Best Man at their wedding). After tuxedo shopping we went out to dinner at a wonderful Thai restaurant; we ordered four different dishes to share, all of which were VERY good! After dinner we headed back to Adi and Anna's where we hung out and chatted for a bit while having coffee and brownies (YUM!), then watched Sex, Lies, and Videotape. I was the only one who'd seen it before, and we all quite enjoyed it.

On Sunday was the Cynnabar Grande Tourney, where the Monthly tourney champions from 2005 fought it out to crown the Yearly champion. It consisted of three tournaments with different formats, with the highest point-winner from all three being crowned champion. The January 2006 Monthly tournament was also held, once the Yearly tournament was almost over. Fritz fought in both the Yearly and Monthly tournaments, doing quite well in the Yearly, and then winning the Monthly tournament. Congratulations, Love!:-)

Quote for the Day: "Is this a sword fight or an oil painting?"--Deanna, on a slow-starting fencing bout at the Cynnabar Grande Tourney yesterday.

Found in Translation

What President Bush said in his press conference today, in response to a question about him circumventing the FISA law in authorizing domestic surveillance by the NSA:

Secondly, the FISA law was written in 1978. We're having this discussion in 2006. It's a different world. And FISA is still an important tool. It's an important tool. And we still use that tool. But also -- and we -- look -- I said, look, is it possible to conduct this program under the old law? And people said, it doesn't work in order to be able to do the job we expect us to do.

If you change a few words in that statement, I think it offers a pretty accurate idea of his attitude toward the Constitution:

Secondly, the Constitution was written in 1787. We're having this discussion in 2006. It's a different world. And the Constitution is still an important tool. It's an important tool. And we still use that tool. But also -- and we -- look -- I said, look, is it possible to conduct this program under the Constitution? And people said, it doesn't work in order to be able to do the job we expect us to do.

Thoughts?

Quote for the Day: "Some people are like Slinkies: not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs."--Overheardintheoffice.com

Quote for the Day: "It feels like such hypocrisy as a parent — we tell Leta not to walk around with a carrot sticking out of her mouth because she might fall and choke on it, but it’s okay to hurl our bodies down a 10,000 foot precipice lined with trees."--Dooce

Thought for the Day: Throwing up sucks. Having to go to work two hours after throwing up because they're already short-handed and, well, you're no longer throwing up, also sucks. That's my day in a nutshell.

I will not eat them Sam I am...

Researchers in Taiwan have bred fluorescent green pigs. Now there's a sentence I never thought I say.

By injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, a research team at the island's leading National Taiwan University managed to breed three male transgenic pigs, said professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university's Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.

"There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green," Wu said on Thursday.

Insert obligatory Dr. Seuss joke here.

The transgenic pigs, commonly used to study human diseases, would help researchers monitor and trace changes of the tissues during the physical development, Wu said.

Well, now we have an idea of what Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy's offspring might look like...

Quotes for the Day: "My initial impression is that it looked like the heart of a dragon. Then reality set in, and I thought "No no. That'd be silly. A dragon's heart would look like a muscle. Then reality really set in when I remembered that dragons don't actually exist. Such are the conversations that go on in my head."--The Accidental Hedonist

"If your starving, yet won't eat a potato until someone sticks a gun to your head, I think it's safe to say you have issues."--once again, The Accidental Hedonist