Notes on slippers, a microcosm of the political process and shameless plugging

The Great Slipper Experiment has hit a bit of a snag. Specifically, it's rubbing against a 1cm wide snag that's appeared on the side of my foot thanks to my new shoes.


I've got nothing much to say tonight so we'll have a little notes post.

Sam is due to appear on the next episode of the Nintendo Report. I only really mention this because he mentioned it at the VCOM podcast site, along with linking here.

This site is fairly new, so there's not much there yet, but it already contains some nicely amusing stories of game store employees who have no clue what they're talking about. It's not a problem I've ever really had but it's worth a read. Kind of reminds me of this.

I just came across Acts of Gord recently, in the same place I found out about the above, but it's an interesting take on the kinds of things that the smart game store employees have to put up with from their customers.

I'm not sure if Skippy has an NWT for tomorrow, but I've got an idea so I might take a stab at it.

This is my 97th daily post for TWToday and there's nothing really special abut that. On the bright side, my 100th falls on Saturday, meaning it may be well-written.

A wonderful microcosm of the political system came into being at school today. With nowhere else to go, three middle class white boys and one girl discussed racism without drawing any conclusions or anybody noticing. This happened for five minutes, after which the topic of conversation turned to the poor stocking of the water bottle machine and what could be done to alleviate the problem. If that isn't politics, I don't know what is.

Oh, and somebody remind me to ask Skippy for the visitor numbers for May. I've been meaning to do that for almost a week.

Also, remind me to find some new toothpaste. Don't ask why, just do. I mean, you could probably figure out that it's because I'm running low on toothpaste and keep forgetting to get more but that's not quite mysterious-sounding enough.

To conclude, a little factoid that I was reading about last week and which actually came in handy today. The colour of the sky, not a reflection of the sea as many people assume (I never quite understood how that's supposed to work), is due to the scattering of blue light by nitrogen in the atmosphere, leading to the impression that the blue is coming from all around us. This is called Rayleigh Scattering. The reasons why the sky can change colours somewhat are related, but too complicated for me to bother writing down right now.