I can take them and rub them together!

1. American flags on stupid plastic flagpoles in pickup trucks' windows: half-staff or not?
2. Anyone else ever gotten prescription polarized sunglasses and find that their polarization is at 90 degree angles from each other? I got some of those today... returned them immediately. It helped that they were also cut very shoddily, so there was plenty of reason to complain.

In other news, PPPoE is annoying. Why can't DSL modems just run Ethernet and DHCP like any sane network modem would do?

And, finally, isn't it considered bad luck to kill an albatross while at sea? I thought so.

Ok, four thoughts it is. Tomorrow is another day.