etc.

I got a road trip to Montréal, some clothes, gift certificates, tupperware, two great meals, some free drinks and a lot of well wishes out of this birthday gig. Thanks.

To-morrow starts the insane countdown at work, where I kick into high gear to get everything done before the students start streaming back. To-morrow also starts the insane countdown to getting my chapter together for the September 30th deadline that looms large. If I have been cryptic about the whole thing it’s only because my brain hasn’t yet synthesized all the ideas that have been floating around in it. I hope to change that soon, so expect some sort of lucid explication on exactly what it is I am going to be writing 3,500-4,000 words on. You’ve been warned.

And thanks to Mike’s dad, our study is now 100% inhabitable (that’s the installed window AC in the picture, it’s not on the desk anymore), which means my last excuse to fritter away my time has hereby been eliminated.

Online communities are mushrooming all over the web. To wit, friendster and tribe.net (beta).

America’s favourite condiment has a museum. [mefi]

Need an anvil? Get it straight from the ACME catalogue. [memepool]