some links

you may or may not have noticed that i added some (fleeting) links to this site in the form of the “some links” sidebar on the right. this was important, because it makes me just like every other blogger on the net. well … maybe it just confirms that i can follow the leads set by others. bridge, here i come.

my next little site-project will be some sort of publicly accessible photo repository. the hack i’m currently running makes me sad, and i don’t particularly feel like exposing it to the world.

boys don’t cry

the capitol

my parents visited this weekend (which was very nice), and on saturday we wandered around madison a bit, stopping at some botanical gardens (which should be quite nice to walk around in come summertime) and the state capitol . during the capitol tour, i found out why wisconsin is called the badger state. ah, the things i missed out on by going to middle school in minnesota.

back to the middle ages

if you were a knight templar, you too could issue holy challenges to osama bin laden:

This Knight Templar calls you a craven coward and an infidel … He calls you the favorite son of Satan … Not only that, but to prove to the entire world that you are a coward and an infidel, this Knight Templar challenges you to single combat in the sands of Pakistan. I challenge you to meet me with scimitar or sword, to be pitted against myself and a holy sword consecrated to our Order-a sword that was forged to destroy evil. Here’s the deal: if I win, Al Qaeda is disbanded-forever. If you win, then you can set the head of a Knight Templar on a pike outside your tent, and you can claim that you slew the chief of all Crusaders in the United States.

awesome.