My wish came true!

On June 24, I blogged about a T-shirt I saw that I admired. It read "What would Sagan Do?"

When I got in from the gym last night, Becky was gone to her class (She's getting a Master of Education at Hamline). I rounded the corner, and there hanging on the door was this shirt (Becky got it for me).

I'd like to say that Sagan would be kicking ass and handing out bubble gum (and he's all out of bubble gum, of course), but Sagan would teach us to be better people, to think about our carbon footprint, that morality is a much deeper subject than what our species does when naked - and I bet he'd smile at my hydroponic tomatoes.

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I finally got my 4th monitor back

Some how, I have convinced my bosses boss that I need four monitors. It's true. I mean, it's true that I really need four. I work with so many different applications and photos open at the same time, that being able to move things to different monitors and see them at a glance - It's nirvana. I am so much more productive this way. However, one of them died a few weeks ago. It's replacement finally arrived. So, here they are in all of their wonderful LCD glory.

You know what I hate?

I hate the little stickers they put on fruits and vegetables. I used to think they were completely useless, but now it turns out that it would be a really good idea for them to have barcodes. I almost used the example of the tomato salmonella poisoning scare, but it looks like there never was really a tomato problem.

Nonetheless, I hate it when I slice up an apple and forget to remove the sticker. I guess if I paid more attention when I washed the apple, I could remove it. However, I often end up chewing on a sticker.

I joined Facebook yesterday

I joined Facebook yesterday, and received an education. While I was signing up, it gathered up a bunch of people's photos and said something like, "You might know these people. Add them to find out."

The education came the following morning. Apparently, when you add a large group of people that you want to investigate later (to see if you know them), it sends a message to all of them telling them that you want to be their friend.

I'm a friendly guy, so I probably do want to be their friend, but how embarrassing is that? Now, a crowd of people are scratching their heads wondering, "Who the hell is Kenny Bellew and why does he want to be my friend?"

It's kind of like Classmates.com, which will send you an email telling you, on a very regular basis, that someone has "Signed your guestbook." The truth is, someone just clicked on your link on Classmates- probably because I have a photo posted and they wanted to see if they know me. They had no intention of signing my guestbook. They didn't leave me a message. There was no well-wishing going on. However, Classmates very cleverly tells you this so you will sign up to see who has signed your guestbook. Because, that's the only way you will know. Clever. Deceitful. Making them tons of money I'm sure.

Facebook is pretty cool though. I was surprised at how the social networking is setup. They really make it easy to network and make new friends.