The SNL Weenday Update last night “proved” what I have suspected all along.. those giant maps are just play toys.

You can skip the first part.. 5:16 is where the fun starts.

Need I say more? ;~)

Combining two tidbits that have come in this morning (since we all seem to be alive so far).

First up is a webcam link.  Kind of dull really.

And Gordon Freeman has been spotted at the LHC as well..

this is from a mailing list I am on.. a good explanation as to why you don’t see more commuter trains around.

>> The commuter train from Fort Worth to downtown Dallas has open Wifi. Pretty
>> decent speed, to.
>
> They got commuter trains in the US?
> I have only heard and seen highways and big trucks going a mile a gallon.
>

You have to look hard for them.  They hide a lot so no one knows that they are around, that was no one knows we have them in the US.  But they are very territorial and rarely go far from the nest, so that is why we don’t have them everywhere.

Curious as to what this year’s hurricane season has in store?

xkcd has the answer: