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I am good at making unordered lists, however. Onward and twirling!

• I don’t have much to say. Um, yeah. Except in some cases…
• I have too much to say. When I really get going on a subject, I’ll end up with walls of text about space probes or megabytes or hamburgers. tl;dr
• I lack focus. My blog is too general to even appeal to me.
• I’d rather do than write. I’ve tried to write about my interests, but writing about them necessarily takes time away from doing them.
• I lack the ego. It really takes the wind out of my sails when there are hundreds of millions of blogs and there is literally no reason for anyone except the people I know to read mine. Besides, I could just tell them what I want to say directly. But then they don’t get to deal with my superfluous italicizing.
• I never know how to end a post. Um, yeah.

Somehow better than regular coffee.

Time-traveling bosons can try as hard as they want, but the Large Hadron Collider’s real Achilles’ Heel?  Bread.  And birds,  apparently.

A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating on parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic safety detectors would have shut down the machine.

I admit there are some eventualities you just can’t plan for, but come on!  How are you going to destroy the world if you’re thwarted by bread?!  I mean… no.

(via Universe Today, Bread Dropped By Bird Causes Problems for LHC.)

As I was ripping CDs to my iPod, I came across a signed copy of Mink Car by They Might Be Giants.

Hey, pretty neat. One problem: where did I get a signed copy of this CD? I can’t remember! And who is John Sid? The signature obscured by the sticker is definitely John Flansburgh’s, consisting of a bespectacled smiley face in place of the “o.”  I can only assume that the top signature is one of John Linnel’s pseudonyms; he has been know to sign things “J.Lo Linnel” among others. This does not solve the problem of where this CD came from, however. Anybody have any ideas?

I won’t go into specifics, but suffice it to say that I managed to run over my USB flash drive no less than twice. With my car. From the picture the drive sure seems to be intact, but perhaps its data storage abilities have been compromised! Lo, upon plugging it into my computer, all of my files were as non-destroyed as they were before crushing them with a 2,365 pound vehicle. Consider this a shining recommendation for USB flash drives from Dell, where the 512MB model is inexplicably five dollars cheaper than the 256MB one, and both are available for “as low as $1/month.”