Open Thread 2008!

Buoyed by the terrific success of last year's, I offer you: another open thread! Post! Question! Answer! Flame! (Not too much flame, though - the extinguisher hasn't been recharged in a while.) Anything doesn't reply to regular posts can go here.

Open Thread 2008

Need to say something, but don't feel like emailing? Here you go!

Tweets for Today

• 10:54 Ooh, conspiracy theory: what if Blagojevich is *innocent*? It would (1) explain Burris and (2) explain the over-the-top nature of the crime. #
• 16:25 Have borrowed a SIM-card phone from me bro to replace the miserable piece of ... I mean, my old one until I buy a replacement. Okay so far. #

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Writer's Block: Resolved

A lot of resolutions, from the mundane to the truly ambitious, are being made today. What are your New Year's resolutions? Do you think you're likely to stick to them past the month of January? View other answers

Oh, I should make some of these!

1. Practice being calm when being calm is the best strategy - most prominently, when receiving unwanted advice. (I was going to say "senseless courtesy", but civility sometimes requires rudeness.)

2. Ride my bicycle more, building up to commuting to school on it.

3. Reclaim time from those pleasures which do not give me much pleasure, and gather up fragments of time, lest they perish.

4. Work out the list of things I need need to pay attention to (my financial status, my health care coverage, my health, my...) and pay attention to those things.

...okay, those seem like good ideas. I'll leave them there.