Unofficial announcement, followed by unofficial plans.

According to moles at Worldcon, Montreal has won the 2009 Worldcon. It won't be official until the WSFS Business meeting later today, but w00t!

We're going to this one. I've always wanted to see Montreal, we have some friends up that way, and it would be a nice vacation.

So, step 1: Buy memberships as soon as possible, apply for passports, and learn German.

What, you expect me to learn French?

In other news form the Mysterious Orient, the Hugo awards are up.

Nippon 2007 has the coolest Hugo statue ever. Seriously. Ultraman standing next to the rocket? Nice to see Vernor Vinge win, Rainbow's End was a great book. Of course, I'm demanding a recount on the two categories johnnyeponymous should have won. Where's Diebold when you really need them?

It's almost poetry!

In today's spam pile:

Subject: in hong or concoct , idolatry ! louvre be buzzing

After cheap drugs spam: it dakota it hymen the colloq in hunt the paradigmatic

*snaps fingers*

There is hope for the universe.

As many people know, the two best places to look for absolute idiocy on the internet are the comments at IMDB and YouTube. Really, these pits of bad spelling, ignorance, and forsaken logic are "the lulz" as the hip young kids say.

So imagine my shock when i was randomly searching around, and found DaVinci's Notebook's Title of the Song done by what looks like a group of college kids lip synching. The video is funny enough, but read the comments! People started commenting in the same existential style of the song.

Here ya go!

Dinner and a movie.

Went over to my mom's tonight for dinner. She made this great chicken dish, hard to describe but it was baked with a sort of garlic and cheddar cheese covering. Very, very good with Rice-A-Roni and a nice white zinfandel.

After that, we watched Night At The Museum. I normally don't like Ben Stiller, but this movie was fantastic. It moved along nicely, didn't dwell on the father/son story or the romantic subplots, and gave us a nice plot surrounded by what we came to see - The Museum of Natural History coming alive. Owen Wilson, who's role was supposed to be a cameo (but was expanded after he tested well) and is not credited, steals the movie as the miniature cowboy Jedediah.

A good evening all around, and i got a bike ride in on the deal.

Distance: 2.707 miles
Maximum Speed: 14.7 mph
Average Speed: 11.1 mph
Time: 14 minutes, 40 seconds
Calories Burned: 79.5
Fat Burned: 8.2 grams

Had a wicked headwind on the way up, and it was still over 90. Coming back was much nicer except for the asshole. Since I ride in the street, and have all the expected lights and reflectors, I follow the same rules as any other vehicle. So, when a lane I'm riding in turns into a right-turn only lane, and I need to continue own, I move over and ride as far to the right in the lane I need to be in. In this case, my wheels were on the white line that separated turning cars from the rest of us. The asshole decided he was utterly offended by my doing the correct thing, or was just a jerk, but he laid on his horn as he passed me. We weren't within three feet of each other, so I don't know what his problem was.