mary, this one's for you

and "again" i ask myself,
why don't i collect plates?

can you pass the test?

this is great!

its a "training" site for people to determine if they have what it takes to be a government agent. simply answer questions...is this a bomb....or not?

how did you do???!!

some of the pics to contemplace:

bomb.

not a bomb.

super mario brothers!!!!

this guy is great!
but i can't get it to embed correctly so go watch him play the super mario brothers theme at youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQcuQsD587M


and see what bored video game nerds do for fun in the snow...


































Some bored New Jersey college kids turned a snowy night into a kick ass piece of art.

Nic, Daniel, Garrett Ian, Daniel , Justin and Craig are engineering and computer science students at New Jersey Institute of Technology, so when they saw that mother nature was dropping some white stuff on the ground outside, they decided to construct a wonderfully nerdy shrine to their favorite Italian plumber. Apparently, they used a string grid to get it, right. We're not quite sure what that means, but the result sure is cool. link here.

who knew it was such a big deal?

A Date with Destiny
from the ny times.

"CHRISTMAS. New Year's Eve. Spring break. There are certain dates on the calendar when travelers know that hotel rooms in prime vacation spots will be nearly impossible to come by, even if they try to book months in advance.

This year, add another day to the list: Saturday, July 7.

That's because that date -- the almost numerically perfect 7/7/07 -- is being sought after by couples around the country as the ideal day for a wedding. More than 31,000 couples have already signed up with theknot.com, a wedding-planning Web site, saying they plan to marry that day, a figure that is roughly triple the number for any other Saturday that month -- and nearly 20,000 more than the number of couples who got married on the corresponding weekend a year earlier. Evie Bagwell, 23, and Derek Novotny, 22, from Brownsville, Pa., say they chose the date for their wedding because of its spiritual significance. ''The Bible explains 777 as being perfection, and that is how we feel together,'' Ms. Bagwell said.

And it isn't only prospective spouses who think that the 7-7-7 combination could be lucky for them. The travel site Vegas.com said its hotel reservations for the weekend starting on Friday, July 6, are about six times greater than those for the previous weekend. ''We've never seen anything like this,'' said Bryan Allison, vice president of marketing for Vegas.com. ''We were all shocked.''

Meanwhile, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Miss., which was originally scheduled to open just days after Hurricane Katrina hit, says it plans to open on July 7. William Hill, the noted British bookmaker, has placed the odds at 7 to 1 that Tony Blair will resign on that date. And when the Pepsi 400 Nascar race at the Daytona International Speedway takes place on July 7, will Clint Bowyer -- who drives the No. 07 Jack Daniel's Chevrolet car -- have an unfair advantage?"

People are weird......

time has come to a stand-still....

...in US post offices across the nation that is.

The US Post Office has removed clocks from 37,000 postal outlets in order to alleviate the problem of people feeling like they're waiting in line for two long. A clockless atmosphere will apparently encourage a state of meditative interest in the workings of the postal service, without distracting with the sense of time's fleeting passage.

This sounds like a joke, but it's being reported by the Houston Chronicle: The USPS is removing clocks from post offices in order to allow customers to better "focus on the postal service."

"We want people to focus on postal service and not the clock," said Stephen Seewoester, Dallas spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service.

Um, correct us if we're wrong here but:

• People carry timepieces.

•The post office is not a casino. People aren't going to lose themselves in the fun and mail more letters than they'd originally intended.

Is this the best they can come up with?—MEGHANN MARCO

in related news, my favorite building in madrid is the oficina de correos (the post office).

some pics to comtemplate

from julia.
























best html EVER. ha.