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If you ever come across a statue-like grinning Quaker Oats guy handing you oatmeal squares, I suggest you run. That’s just creepy.

I believe it’s high time to stop watching commercials on my television.

Does anyone else see the massive honey bee die-off as some twisted re-imagining of the dolphins leaving Earth in the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Hm.

I have to laugh because I have this weird connection to Confab topics. I was listening to the latest episode, Number 28, and the discussion could have been drawn from currently-open tabs in my browser, notes in Entourage, other podcasts I listen to, and television shows that we’ve watched recently.

• Missing the snow: we’ve barely had any this year in Rochester, while there’s been extreme weather in Buffalo, Seattle, Denver, and the midwest.
• Brainstorming and bad ideas: see Python PEP 3099, covering “Things that will Not Change in Python 3000.” The first sentence is, “Some ideas are just bad.” And there are bad ways of expressing them, too. Grin.
• Discussion about where to live for a year: this reminded me of the great Bruce Campbell interview response:
  

  Q: When stuck on a deserted island, what would you most want with you?
  Bruce Campbell: A continent.

• Houndsditch restaurant reviews: I’d never had Eggs Benedict until the fall trip Christen and I took to Vermont to visit Michelle and Lyle, so my ears perk up when I hear about them. Thus, I know that Christen was watching one of those Food Network TV show last night that talked about the history of Eggs Benedict; the upshot is that it sounds unlikely the dish was being served in London before New York. The show also featured a gentleman who’d sampled Eggs Benedict from over 150 restaurants in New York City—he’s feeding that obsession.
• Old buildings and the Hagia Sophia: I listen avidly to the Twelve Byzantine Rulers podcast (one of the best podcasts I’ve ever heard), and have been interested in the Eastern Roman Empire for years. (It’s the history buff in me…all the good history books were up on the quiet, empty fourth floor of the university library when I was in school.) I just listened to the episode about Basil II, who created a building to rival the Hagia Sophia—but not a brick of it remains today.