Stuff

Was watching "Brainman" on The Best of Science Channel last night, which is airing on The Discovery Channel this week. It was about a man with an amazing talent for numbers; he once calculated pi to 22,000 decimal points in his head and learned to speak Icelandic in a week. He sees the numbers visually. It was utterly astounding.

Anyway, I had a weird Collision of Spheres™ last night when I realized that the host of this series this week was Dan Duran, who was for the longest time the announcer on the CFNY (Toronto) morning show -- which I listened to in high school and college. All I can remember is the goofy "I Slept With Dan Duran" fake commercials they used to do....

They're actually showing the Oscars live as opposed to stupid tape delay, which means it's starting at 5pm Pacific. It will be kind of nice to watch it over dinner, and not have to stay up extra late. (Frankly, I'm mostly interested because it's JON STEWART.)

Squee!

I was in Borders, wielding a dangerous 25% off coupon, when I spotted Linda Berdoll's sequel to Mr Darcy Takes a Wife. I didn't think it was due out until MAY! So... whee!!!

Fantastically good day thus far, all around. Much accomplished, including laundry, washing out the kitty water fountain (note to self: must wash out more frequently). About to settle in with a slightly-earlier-than-usual dinner and Jon Stewart, er, I mean the Oscars...