Class.

Yes, I sometimes stick the piece of gum that I'm chewing on the back of my hand so that I can eat a snack and then continue chewing my gum afterwards.

 

And yes, sometimes I eat food directly off my knife.

 

But I will also separate myself from a group to break wind.

 

Because I have class.

Inauguration.

I'll write more about my time at the Inauguration later. But here's a few vids I took to give you a sense of what it was like:

Aretha singing.


The Oath (to be later redone).


The Speech.

Wonders Never Cease.

In line at Subway today, a woman said she was allergic to lettuce.

Concert.

I braved the cold with some friends to attend the We Are One concert yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial. We never made it to the Reflecting Pool area; instead, we were diverted to the Washington Monument to watch the concert on Jumbotrons. It was a little weird though, because we were still close enough to hear the concert, and the sound was already delayed on the monitor -- so we ended up hearing, then seeing, then hearing again the concert.

I'm curious, is there a competitive market for jumbotrons? The ones we were watching weren't exactly jumbo, and I wonder if that was a failure of the market.

My take on the concert? U2 was briliant, Garth Brooks was amazingly entertaining, and Beyonce didn't sing Single Ladies.

On a side note, of course there were people protesting socially liberal stances -- you know, berating the gays, the abortions, and the sports nuts. What? No really, "sports nuts" was one of the categories of heathens that are going to tear apart the fabric of society.

I Have No Original Ideas.

With the extra coverage of Eric Holder's confirmation hearings recently, there have been more photos of him popping up over the interwebs. I started to see a vague resemblance to Oprah's onetime boytoy Stedman Graham, but I thought I was surely crazy.

Until Google confirmed that others think as crazily as I do.

Sigh. Someday I'll be original.

Huh.

Gmail is still a beta. Wikipedia says it's been around since 2004, it's used by millions, and-yup-it's still a beta.

You'd think they'd figure out email by now.

I'm a Bad Person.

Is it wrong that I laughed when I realized that the sexologist that was being interviewed on the Today Show this morning has a lisp?