Notable technology luminary David McNett has suggested that Livejournal add Google Analytics support to their blogging software. I couldn’t agree more. I have an idea of how many people visit my LJ based on referring image links, however, that data is not available to my Google Analytics account. So, I encourage everyone to comment his post and hold candle light vigils until this is implemented.

While running on Bull Creek Trail this morning, esteemed microprocessor architect, Eric Holbrook made an astonishing breakthrough theory. I innocently asked the question, “Do you think cockroaches come up out of the drains to get in the house?” Eric immediately threw cold water on my Drain Theory, and exclaimed, “Everybody knows that all of the socks that get lost in the washing turn into cockroaches.” Everybody indeed.

So, the discussion inevitably turned to the famous English chemist, Joseph Priestley who discovered oxygen and carbon dioxide. He noticed that if a mouse was placed in a bell jar by itself it would get sick and die, but if he put a plant in there to keep him company, the mouse could survive indefinitely. I started wondering what would happen if you placed a Venus Flytrap and loads of flies in a glass jar. Would the plant eat the flies and then not have any carbon dioxide to breathe? Just for good measure, I’d put a candle in there too and let them all fight it out for survival. What I would like to be the result is a giant implosion that creates a rip in the space-time continuum so I can visit the year 1703 and witness the invention of pudding. I’m not sure if any of this is possible, but someone needs to try.

At the big party on Saturday, I was trying to explain the joys of using Pine as an email client to the illustrious Ali Bagheri . As expected, Ali wondered if I had completely lost my mind. Today, I feel somewhat vindicated as I just learned that Linus himself is a fellow pine user.

“Other than those three parts, the only thing I care deeply about is my email reader. I use pine - not because it’s necessarily the greatest email reader ever, but because I’m used to it, and it does what I need it to do with a minimum of fuzz.” - Linus Torvalds

Some other famous pine users include Ivo Jacobus Godelieve Maria Janssen, Jeff Lawson and Derek Hunt.