Yawn, I am tired today, thanks to a 7:30 morning visit by the local plumber. He did his tricks—for good measure, they replaced pipes underneath both of my sinks—and I can now shave in the sink again. Ah, it is the small things that make me happy.

But worry not, intrepid reader. I will happily give you a little something for you to read today. First off, I wanted to mention the very amusing site lolsecretz. If you get the joke, you probably already heard of the I Can Has A Cheeseburger cats. If you, like my girlfriend did last night, stare at this site blankly because you do not find cute animals with horrific text-message misspellings neither funny, relevant nor 'something everyone knows about,' then you have passed the geek test. Considering that I have talked about and blogged about the lol cats, last night was just anther reminder that I remain irrevocably in the geek sector.

I am not sure if this is dorky, but it probably is. I watched Letters from Iwo Jima last night. It is a very good movie that I recommend. It is damn good war movie. Paired up with it's brethren, Flags of Our Fathers, they do a great job showing the meaninglessness, futility and absurdity of war. In the American version of Iwo Jima, Eastwood brilliantly confronts hero worship, in all its powerful absurdity. Put simply, the concept of the hero is frequently abused. In the Japanese version, you get disturbing experience of having all the protagonists, which is to say the entire cast, die. War makes pawns of them all. War, my friends, is an ugly thing, no matter what side you are on.