Nutshelling a Weekend on Monday Afternoon

1) Union won the Cleary Cup for the second straight season. They go in to the ECAC playoffs as the number one seed and are currently ranked eighth in the country. Read the end of the season wrap-up at USCHO.

2) The Walking Dead was odd last night. Vulture had the right headline for it: Driving in Cars With Maybe Zombies.

3) My dreams were odd last night, largely because of zombies but it was different. The group I was in was being trained to fight them but against our will. In the end, after half the group had died and the compound where we were being trained had been overrun, it was revealed that it was an experiment being caused by hallucinogenic pharmacolgicals and deprivation chambers. It was similar to the Twlight Zone episode "Where Is Everybody?"

4) I invented a new culinary delight. I mention this because I just had the leftovers for lunch. (I am generally anti-leftovers, with the exception of pizza.) It is miso risotto.
It is wonderful. I added wasabi peas to the leftovers for some heat and some crunch.. Sometimes, I amaze myself.

5) Earlier, I was reminded of my working definition of ennui. For those of you who care, ennui is akin to having an ice cream headache on a hot and humid day without the benefit of having ice cream.

6) I am just curious about who are the people behind the movement to stop a McDonald's being built on the corner of 15th and Hoosick St in Troy? I see various groups but who is the leadership and what is their motivation. The publicly stated ones do not make sense (if you spend more than ten seconds thinking about it or you are not a member of the scolding left) and I would love to know what the real reasons are. (Some of them are put forth here.)

7) Removing the fortune cookies from the Lin-Sanity Ben & Jerry's flavor. Shame.

8) I kind of love this picture of myself.



Yes, vanity.