Bizarsenal

Barack Obama was on the tolerable American television programme (Mythbusters) last night. I had hoped that the task he gave them would be along the lines of "Can you two finally convince these idiots that I'm not from Kenya?" but instead it was a reworking of Archimedes' solar death ray with more of a science education theme. Perhaps the defence budget is running low.

And pami_zee mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago that she had had a dream that involved me. There was some sort of golem in her room, and I had been tasked with killing it - on offer were a variety of hammers and other weapons. However, ignoring all of these, I said that I was going to face it with a sharpened telephone, because "that's what I had been used to using". I can't guess what experience I might have had with it, but I love the way that even in other people's dreams, I am still surrounded by the kind of insanity that takes place in my own.