A variety of links, mostly entertaining :)

From subbes: Miami University of Ohio students are materialistic goons, to the detriment of the school's budget.

From sylvie:

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow. :D

Article on modern-day mythology and homeless children in Miami

Lengthy essay on self-esteem. I only skimmed it, but figured some of y'all would like to read it. :)

G'night!

Weather, itinerary, puzzles, birthday, links

70F and sunny on this here November 21st.
Tentative itinerary in hand--DC to Tokyo on Dec1, lay over a day, Tokyo to Sydney, Sydney to Canberra. Return trip via LAX scheduled for mid-February but will almost certainly be pushed back to March/April/whenever.
Today's Baltimore Sun crossword puzzle is very difficult--three of us have solved it after over two hours of effort, and the NY Times puzzle looks to be even harder. :P

Happy birthday, Mistah chicken_hunter!

*snicker*
How to Stuff Your Parrot on Thanksgiving

gingerdc9: Face/On

A very palpable hit, puzzles & bikes, weekend // links

On the way to work this morning, I learned that my truck wins in low-speed rear-ending, too. Stopped and facing into the sun at a stop sign, several cars back inline, I was hit from behind at about 1mph by a minivan. I considered not even pulling over, as I knew I hadn't taken any notable damage, but I decided I might as well as I got up to the stop sign. I got out (smiling ruefully, I might add), checked my bumper--a little scraped plastic over the 1/8" steel--and his--some scraped and dented plastic on the front bumper. As there as no reason to report anything, we went on our ways. :)

We gave up on the NY Times puzzle. :P Later, there was a good hour among various people talking about motorcycles, and I got to sit on two different Kawasaki sport bikes--more different in feel than meets the eye--and a BMW sport-touring bike. And now it's the weekend. :)

Tonight, party at anizee's house, all of 3 miles from here. Over the weekend, I hope to get to Costco with mom or Steph to check out their laptops.

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From marnanel: A good article on the spread of spam to other media--including web journals--by DiveIntoMark

vinz_klortho, on bastardization of an ancient city. ;)

From yournailbunny: Sports taunting Dos & Don'ts

From profworm: FOX resurrects The Family Guy, orders 35 new episodes