I was paged this morning, so I’m up extra early, and, while I’m waiting for a deployment to finish, I thought I’d do some blog work.

Current observations and subsequent realizations :

• I’m incredibly hungry: i should eat breakfast
• leo‘s no longer one of my biggest tags!: he will be again after this post
• xkcd cartoon: complete and utter truth
• Grim Optimism: Woke up early, but not early enough. Reminds me of the subject of my dreams
• 32nm: I feel bad for my former employer, then really happy I was never given the slip…
• Deep Throat dies: why was Mark Felt called Deep Throat again? According to the love of my life:
  

  Howard Simons, the managing editor of the Post during Watergate, dubbed the secret informant “Deep Throat” as an allusion to the notorious eponymous pornographic movie which was a mainstream cause célèbre at the time. The name was also a play on the journalism term “deep background,” referring to information provided by a secret source that, by agreement, will not be reported directly.

In other news, this xkcd cartoon reminded me of my participation in the World’s Largest Marshmallow Fight (ever) at Oakton Park in Skokie.

And in case you’re questioning whether this really existed:

In Illinois, 2,500 kids showed up at a park one winter to throw “snowballs” at each other. What they threw were 130,000 soft, sweet ones. Organizers were trying to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for the “World’s Largest Marshmallow Fight.”

- http://www.homeschoolgazette.org/FlabFacts.html