Is It Just Us?

Is anyone else in this area having trouble with pages loading slowly, or not coming up at all? We're on Chickasaw's DSL and we're not sure if it's just us, or not.

This picture is a map of the internet, as realized last June by Bar Ilan University in Israel. It's beautiful, but looking at it I have to tell myself to be patient if things hang up from time-to-time.

Batali Madness

I dreamed that I was running around some large city with chef Mario Batali. He kept saying that we had to make a Beurre Blanc and that he needed special ingredients for it. I told him there were no special ingredients, only butter, shallots and white wine, but he insisted and kept taking off ahead of me. And god, he was wearing his Crocs.

Why the hell did I dream that? Why do I have any of the Weird-Assed Dreams that I'm known for? It makes me wonder sometimes if we don't actually run into other dreamers when we're deeply embedded in our own.

This Week's Mensa Test

You all seemed to enjoy last week's Mensa Test so much, I've decided to give you a new one each Monday. Here's this week's:

The items in each group below share one feature in common. It has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables. Can you find the common factor in each group of items?

GROUP #1

• Wheel
• Tire
• Manhole Cover
• Globe

GROUP #2

• Plums
• Walnuts
• Apples
• Maple Leaves