:: quick facts for tuesday, october 21

not much going on today. i've been sitting around the apartment playing no more heroes on the wii. it's an interesting game. it's super-gory in that quentin tarantino style. you essentially travel around doing odd jobs to earn money, spend that money on new clothes and videos, and enter into fights with assassins, trying to work your way up the list of top assassins, slaying everyone in your way using a combination of lightsaber slashes and mexican lucha librador wrestling moves. yeah, it's interesting. and addicting. 

apart from that, i had a "wow, i'm dumb" moments. i only had one class to go to today. social psychology. i'm usually a few minutes late to this class, but i left at a time that i thought we actually get me to class a few minutes early. i hustled over to hilbun hall and opened the door, only to find the classroom empty. i thought that was odd. until i looked at my phone, noticed what time it was, thought about what was going on a bit, and came to the realization that the class i was trying to attend actually started at 12:30, not 1:30, which was the time at which i was currently living in. i'm dumb. but at least i didn't have to go to that class....

let's get to the quick facts ::

current time :: 5:30 pm

current atmospheric conditions :: 75°F

currently listening to :: the neue podcast, which is a pretty cool interview with rob bell. you should also check out the new brett dennen and of montreal albums.

the current price of a gallon of gas in starkville :: hovering around $2.70.

fact :: my team won again this week, pushing my record to 5-2, tied for first place.

current work load :: i've got some more articles to summarize and a citation page to re-do. i've been procrastinating again.

what to watch :: house and fringe on tonight. you can also catch the worship/social justice documentary with hearts as one over at the brand new relevant.tv (now in hd) from now till friday.

today in history ::

• ferdinand magellan discovers a strait and names it after himself. his crew get tired of him and his attitude and mutinied.
• thomas edison tests the first practical incandescent light bulb in 1879. it apparently takes quite a few ole miss fans to replace a light bulb.
• the solomon r. guggenheim museum, designed by frank lloyd wright, opens in new york city in 1959.
• fred dryer becomes the first player in nfl history to score two safeties in a single game in 1973. if only my bulldogs could have scored another safety against auburn, we might have won that game... oh well.

historic births ::

• alfred nobel
• keith green
• rich mullins
• carrie fisher
• ken watanabe
• josh ritter
• kim kardashian

historic obits ::

• jack kerouac 
• elliott smith

video of the day ::

heck, you should just watch that whole episode, plus all of yesterday's colbert report as well...





more to come...