saturn return to sender

invoking escher

… or some combination thereof. My Flickr faves pages are now three pages of eye candy. I wub Flickr and spend way too much time on it.

I try to have high standards when it comes to adding photos to my faves collection. It usually comes down to how reluctant I am to close the tab with that photo. Or if I keep coming back to one, despite trying not to like it. Some obvious themes in subject have emerged.

I think this is possibly my favorite of the faves. This is a close second. A scary-perfect shot.

The pic shown here, taken with my wonderfully crappy cameraphone, is the first to make it on to the “interesting” page. Ooh, I’m all giddy! Har har.

US Senate fails to raise the minimum wage. Last month, a UN report classified parts of the US alongside the third world in poverty rate. (Full text of the independent article available here.)

Wow. A crushing blow for youth health: Nintendo will provide free Wi-Fi access at 6000 McDonalds around the world. ”

The deal will allow Nintendo DS owners to walk into a McDonald’s and play Wi-Fi-enabled games with others on the service, whether they are in the building or around the world. There will be no setup required–users simply launch a game that supports Wi-Fi, and play against others while sucking down shakes.

My car is named Gatsby. Gatsby is a ‘98 Jeep Cherokee. Gatsby had his starter replaced this evening. We will hope that that solves the problem Gatsby was having, which involved a touch of intolerance to temperature changes. Gatsby, you see, is a Californian Jeep, and isn’t used to the cold Colorado winters. Sometimes he decides not to start, for several minutes at a time. This week, after our first cold snap, he decided not to start for two days.

Unfortunately Gatsby suffered a bit of a broken battery lead due to some tactless manhandling by his owner. So we will all have to wait until his owner gets him a new battery to see if the starter helps. D’oh!

Learning is expensive with me. I seem to like it that way.