And another season comes to a close.

And it went out in the same sort of fashion that things have been all year. Many games that were winnable slipped through our fingers because the offense didn't execute and the defense was being too heavily pressured. (Actually, that's not entirely true. The offense did execute their plays... they just happened to be three-yard gains on down like third and fifteen.) The defense kept us in it by giving the offense short fields to work with. The referees kept us in it by throwing pass interference flags at fortunate times (they were right calls, I think the impartial observer would say). The offense, however, couldn't do a thing. But Penn State made it a moot point anyway, so annaonthemoon's happy. It's been a wild ride in the conference this year. Maybe next year we'll win those kinds of games that we've been losing for a while now.

Afterwards, I went out curling with some friends - very cool. Wish we had an ice sheet closer than an hour's drive away, or we'd do this thing regularly. I did okay for skipping, although I couldn't really find a touch for throwing a rock (either too short or too long most of the time). One of the people there, though, threw a nice draw that landed pretty square on the button. Best shot of the set, and then I called down a takeout on it because it wasn't my side that threw it. All in all, very fun.

While not cruel (in my opinion), this certainly serves as an unusual punishment: abandoning kittens will net you a night out in the cold. They'll make sure she doesn't freeze and die, but no shelter, just clothing. Very interesting.

You know how it was said (is said?) that Angelina Jolie keeps a vial with some blood of Billy Bob Thorton in it? Well, someone's offering the next best thing - breath in a bottle. (If this is satire, I can't find it.)

I'm not sure whether fan-mixed music videos count as being part of fair use or not, but nearly two thousand anime music videos were taken down after a cease-and-desist came through from an "unnamed label". Apparently, the music syndicate didn't like the idea. I think it's a bit like shooting oneself in the foot to enforce the copyright when one could just say "No, we didn't make them, but our fans do." and let the sheer number say something about the popularity or appropriateness of your music to animation. Anime's a grey area as it is with regard to distributions before distributions and other such things.

Meep. Best taken with Fnord.

Maybe tomorrow I'll do a little work and spend the rest of it lounging about. Or tomorrow I might do a lot of work and spend some of it lounging around. Depends on how active I'm feeling tomorrow. Oh, yeah. And I should probably submit that one thing now, while I'm thinking about it.... done. G'night.

Wow. For Sunday...

...that was remarkably unproductive. Well, shopping, yes, and typing, yes, and game playing, yes, but no laundry... (for the obvious reason - someone else's clothes in the dryer. And because tomorrow I might do it). Or maybe I'll spend the time after that going about and doing work on the thing that's due next week. Mostly, all I need are good sources now. From here on out, it's a sprint to the finish. Let's see if I can't get it all done when I want it to be done, rather than when it needs to be done (if at all.)

Brain waves and sound differences. Or, how to induce an altered state without chemicals. And some of the dangerous consequences of being able to produce sounds of all sorts on command.

Learn to throat-sing? Producing two tones with no assistance is a fascinating thing. Then again, I'm a musical person, so this sort of thing is fascinating to me.

So tomorrow I'm going to be productive. No, really! It'll happen, I swear! No more of this lazing about! I have Work To Do! Really! This is Not Abuse of Capital Letters!