New Niece

We have a brand new niece. Manda and Justin welcomed Inara Kiera Richter into the world at 6:23 p.m. yesterday. She weighed 9lbs 1oz!

How Lawmakers Vote

OK, I'm already on my second "holy crap" of the day. Check out this investigation of how lawmakers in Texas vote on important legislation.

Knight Rider is back, but without the Hoff

Holy crap. They're bringing back Knight Rider. It is said to be a "Transformers-inspired reworking." Though, I'm not sure it will ever be the same without The Hoff.

Monks Protesting in Burma

Monks Protesting in Burma
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This is crazy. 35,000 Monks. Leading a huge protest against a repressive government.

Punctuation Is Everything

An english professor wrote the words:

"A woman without her man is nothing"

...on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote:

"A woman, without her man, is nothing."

All the females in the class wrote:

"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation is powerful.

Dads

This is a neat article about a Dad. An excerpt:

The thing is that he was convinced that the world was chock full of treasures that we couldn't see. We would go walking in the desert and he would pick up a stone and say that probably some Indian centuries ago used this rock in a spear. I believed him. Later I became more skeptical of these wild claims. But then I realized that Dad thinks treasures are everywhere, waiting to be found and appreciated.