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So that girl I keep seeing when I'm climbing. The one who's pretty good. Yeah, so it turns out she's one of the best in the world.

@n0dna - not to worry, it was the wife that showed me the article: http://tinyurl.com/ckbz2b

500,000 Purple Hearts were made for the planned invasion of Japan in 1946. They have been awarded ever since - 120,000 are still left.

Just granted my visa for Indonesia -- of course they gave me the wrong one, so once there I'll have to file paperwork to leave. Doh.

"The World's Shortest Horror Story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."

"The SEALS arrived on the scene by parachuting from their aircraft into the sea." What did you do this weekend?

My miles flown to taxable income ratio is pretty phenomenal this year. Unless I want to, you know, buy something.

Red Bull tastes like Def Leppard.

McDonalds is the largest private employer in France.

Putting on my glasses has the same effect as having a cup of coffee.

NYTimes: "A $20,000 increase in spending on leisure was roughly equivalent to the happiness boost one gets from marriage."

Beer, gangsta rap, and grading macro exams... glad the state of California pays me for this.

@swampdrainer that looks impossibly awesome.

Why is there such a brisk market for used socks on eBay?

Two-thirds of real lifetime wage growth typically occurs in the first 10 years of a career.

California's bond rating is the same as Libya's.

The moment Jobs announced the iPad's base price ($499), Apple's market cap increased by $5 billion."

Reading about housing market doom and gloom: http://seekingalpha.com/a/3url

ouch! US employment rates are headed towards levels not seen since women entered the workforce: http://bit.ly/PalET

Job satisfaction is a stronger predictor of longevity than tobacco use.