Third Grease film ‘planned’

Well, I guess it’s time to start stocking up on disaster supplies – water, canned foods, a generator – because surely, THIS is a sign that the world is coming to an end…

Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed report on what makes good pastrami.

Man Shoots Neighbor For Mowing Lawn Too Often

A message, direct from Joss, about why Buffy isn’t in widescreen on DVD.

A happy posthumous birthday to William Shakespeare. Were he alive today…he would surely be horrified.

So, not much to report at the moment. Links in the sidebar have been added, for your surfing convenience. (If you have a link you’d like me to add, please let me know, and I’ll be happy to oblige.) Message ends.

You want to know from irony? Irony is trying to post to your blog about how your new computer at work keeps freezing up on you – only to have the computer freeze up mid-sentence. Ugh.

See what happens when you piss off a smoker?
wnbc.com – News – Bouncer Fatally Stabbed In Brawl Over Smoking Ban

Update: The DA won’t press charges!!!

Malt

NOUN:
1. Grain, usually barley, that has been allowed to sprout, used chiefly in brewing and distilling. 2. An alcoholic beverage, such as beer or ale, brewed from malt. 3. See malted milk (sense 2).

VERB:
Inflected forms: malt-ed , malt-ing , malts

TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To process (grain) into malt. 2. To treat or mix with malt or a malt extract.

INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To become malt.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old English mealt.

So, my luck finally ran out today. My number came up for Jury Duty. I know, it’s your civic duty as a citizen to sit on a jury, blah blah blah. That doesn’t make it any less inconvenient. (That said, I’m lucky I was called this week. If I were called anytime during my SRP committees, I would have been so royally boned.) Anyway, I thought that while I was there – doing nothing for the better part of the day – I might as well jot down some notes and thoughts for your amusement. (Insert the “Law & Order” interstitial chords between entries, if it helps.)
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