Talk about eating your words - quote my facebook page: "I have a feeling I'll be really busy in a week". Yeah. I Am. I got home today after being on campus for 14 hours straight today - and I have a lot of work yet to do tonight. So this is not a happy-happy-joy-joy posting. Long story short: while all my activities are really interesting and on-track - I am up to my neck in stuff to do. Memo to self: stop volunteering for things.

However, in bizzaro world, where people still do things for fun - there's going to be a giant banana orbiting Texas. Check out these official photo-shopped pics:


Basically, they're going to put a realistic, banana shaped blimp nearly 1000 ft in length 20 miles over Texas. It has internal gyroscopic stabilization to keep it oriented horizontally (which is apparently aided by the boomerang-like wobbling), and some type of navigation to keep it over Texas (GPS?). So far as I can tell - they're serious. They have a considerable number of very smart people working on this. Apparently, the Canadian "artists" think this is a funny way of simultaneously insulting and exalting the beautiful absurdity that is Texas.


That conjures up a rousing mental symphonic performance of Also sprach Zarathustra. Nice. Well, back to the real world. Enjoy your sleep, everyone - tonight I shall have none.