For the record, my personal feelings on 2009 in general:

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I can not express how much I am looking forward to this movie…

There’s no way this is real… but it’s still pretty cool!

There’s a new post up on shiny fancy super-awesome Financial Benefits Group blog:

I have found a very good article for parents who have young children.  One concern most parents have is the development of social skills while making sure your child is safe in communicating with others.

Children look up to their parents. You are their very first teachers, so be conscious of how you handle social situations. The more you guide and model positive social interactions, the quicker your children will learn what is acceptable and what’s not.

Click here to read the rest, and as always I’d appreciate any feedback!

Hook a finger and squint an eye, for today’s a good day to ARRRR!!!

How do pirates know they’re pirates?

They think, therefore, they ARRRR!!!!

It’s the sound effects that make this one for me.

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele by way of Joey deVilla

That’s awesome…

[found here]

+1 INT just for owning this book

I absolutely love that I’m enough of a nerd to actually get the latest xkcd comic.

To giggle along with me, I highly recommend the book I’ve been very, very slowly slogging my way through since last Christmas: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

OOO!  OOO!!  Extra-points nerd-alert!

Googling GEB (the acronym that only the really cool hip math geeks use, try it at your next party) I found a link to a course that MIT (yes, that MIT) is putting on studying the book.  And it’s in their OpenCourseWare program!  Which means I get to study a free class analyzing theoretical interconnectedness of multidisciplinary formal systems!!!  OMG SQWEEE!!!!1!

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On a slightly more strange/sinister note, there seems to be some odd conspiracy preventing me from tracking down any information about this book at the moment.  The wikipedia page won’t load.  The wikipedia page with just the abbreviation (GEB) won’t load (other pages load fine).  The Amazon page won’t load (the rest of the site seems to work).  Every picture of the front cover on Google Image Search won’t load.  Reviews of the book won’t load.  Seriously, just to get the thumbnail I had to go to some German blog.  My guess?  We’re renting office space, and therefore network access, from a big insurance company, and they want to make sure to prevent any of their employees from questioning reality too much.  Bad for business.