I am sitting under a blow dryer at a salon for the first time in my life. Does this make me a steel magnolia?

I love how Nora immediately knows which bar or restaurant is being discussed.

That ABC law is repulsively stupid.

Was this at Highland Kitchen?

Nope! Although I'm still thinking about that spicy Dark and Stormy there. It was a recently renamed place by my house -- used to be Firefly, now Six Burner.

We need pictures

If I had a full length mirror to hand. Or the energy for a timer delay.

Nice haul, there, Perkins. Pretty damned sweet appreciation.

Today is moving slowly. Boss is at a conference, and New Guy is nowhere to be seen. Without even a by-your-leave email explaining the nature of his absence.

Me, I have more data issues to poke at, and it's making my eyes cross. I got in the middle of some cracky schmoopy fic last night, and I'd much rather be reading that.

Oddest Book Title Nominations

Nominations are complete for the annual Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. Ninety books were suggested in 2009, and the top six are in the running for the prize, to be announced on March 26th. The nominees are:

* David Crompton’s Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter (Glenstrae Press)
* James A Yannes’ Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich (Trafford)
* Daina Taimina’s Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes (A K Peters)
* Ronald C Arkin’s Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots (CRC Press)
* Ellen Scherl and Maria Dubinsky’s The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SLACK Inc)
* Tara Jansen-Meyer’s What Kind of Bean is This Chihuahua? (Mirror)

New Guy needs to be Fired Guy.

Lee, whatcha gonna buy with your play dough?

I am sitting under a blow dryer at a salon for the first time in my life. Does this make me a steel magnolia?

If you're sitting under it, then it's just a dryer. A blow dryer is hand held. You're only a steel magnolia if your hair is in rollers, and there's backcombing later.

Lee, whatcha gonna buy with your play dough?

The consensus seems to be shoes!

Admiral Ackbar for Ole Miss Mascot

Yesterday, students at the University of Mississippi voted to update their image with a new mascot. The previous mascot Colonel Reb, who resembles a antebellum plantation owner, hasn’t been seen at a game since 2003, due to his Confederate symbolism. Who, or what, will the new mascot be? The athletic teams at Ole Miss are the Rebels, so the logical symbol would be Admiral Ackbar, the highest ranking member of the Rebel Alliance in the Star Wars universe. Only time will tell if the students and administration at Ole Miss will embrace the campaign.

The actual website for the campaign: www.notatrap.org

Welcome to Notatrap.org. We here at Notatrap are in full support of Admiral Ackbar for the new Mascot for the Ole Miss Rebels. Who wants a Colonel when you could have an Admiral?

Apparently they won. eta: OK, they just won the vote to develop a new mascot.

I liked when both Colbert and the Daily Show used Ackbar footage for their stories on the Repubs being invited by the White House to Thursday's health-care meeting.

The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

That's not that weird, unless it's fiction.