I'm taking Amtrak down to Portland for INRC. A ticket costs $50. Business class costs $12 more. And we all got travel awards, so someone else is paying for it. I think I'm the only person in the lab who got the upgrade... including my PI.

In my defense (if such is necessary), I did save 10% by using my AAA discount.

No, seriously, it was just what you'd expect of Yuen Woo-Ping directing an after-school special starring Donnie Yen. Including the parts where Beggar So's habit tears apart the family so badly that his father smacks the ugly out of his randy sister-in-law, and where we learn that the cure for opium addiction is forced wine consumption paired with drunken boxing.

Q: I see a track that I purchased is no longer being offered as a re-download: why?

A: eMusic offers limited re-downloads, without charge, when a track or album fails to download correctly or is corrupted. You will have to re-purchase a track if you've exceeded a reasonable number of re-downloads.

• 18:49 DIA has only one security lane open tonight, so we got here 1.5 hours before departure and missed our flight by less then a minute. Kill. #
• 18:53 Just decided that we're living a Brother Ali track, since we've run the gamut from hilarious to gruesome. #
• 19:25 @nyasara Didn't realize you were still out here. We were out for Mikkel's wedding. #

• 08:34 In Boulder for Mikkel & Lauren's wedding. yfrog.com/11hshj #
• 15:39 Beautiful. bit.ly/13gkZy #
• 19:41 "You know what would be totally awful? A turn-based massively multiplayer game." -- Jesse #

• 08:28 Do half the people of Stillwater ever get sick of being mocked across the nation for their Rep? tinyurl.com/l5ucnb #

• 21:59 Dragon Dynasty is putting out a Mandarin-language DVD of Five Deadly Venoms. Presumably remastered from the Shaw Bros. collection. Squeee!!! #

• 20:23 We're hitting the airport at 3:30 on Thursday--anyone available to offer a ride? #
• 21:50 Apparently, there is now a Weapon Brown webcomic. bit.ly/tvrID #

• 13:03 twitpic.com/818pm - In line at McDonald's. #

• 09:53 "Peace sells... who's buying?" #

• 19:01 Just got awesome tickets for the Storm/Lynx game and they announced that Seimone is put for the season. SO SAD. #
• 19:04 How come nobody told me that Rashad McCants had a sister named Rashanda... Who looks JUST LIKE HIM! #
• 19:22 If the Lynx make another clumsy shooting foul on a shot that goes in, I'm gonna cry. Too late. Crying. #
• 19:23 23-9. Which is better than 12-2. #
• 19:32 End of 1st quarter, 31-19. The Lynx traded Lindsay Harding for a draft pick? Really? #
• 19:36 Somebody needs to tell Stormy to cut down on the pelvic thrusts. He looks like a child molesting Fry Guy. #
• 19:41 Seattle fans are douchebags. Booing the ref for calling an obvious elbow? That's so LA. #
• 20:19 The Storm are shooting 73% AND are getting fouled on nearly every shot. I think I just crapper my pants. #
• 20:30 22 turnovers in 2.5 quarters. Didn't this league used to have basic ball handling skills? #

• 20:52 Crap. Forgot to grab data forlab meeting tomorrow morning. Back to campus go I... #

• 11:48 There's nothing more summery than pirates! ...except maybe Monster Magnet. #
• 23:14 Oh, yay! The Flash Girls' Maurice & I-probably my favorite folk album of all time-showed up on Amazon in mp3 at some point in the last year. #

• 11:14 "Tell me what's a houthouse flower like this / Doing in the land of Winter's kiss / I do believe I've seen a sign" #
• 20:14 "If unsatisfied, I'll fix your hymen for you." Chan Hing-Ka is a genius. #
• 20:57 I think this movie just gave me a stewardess fetish. #

• 09:08 Seriously, Seattle? No city or state bicycle registration progra? You let me down. #

• 18:42 Any Seattlites interested in the Storm / Lynx game next Friday (the 19th)? #
• 19:52 There's a joke in here somewhere... bit.ly/8H0rW #
• 20:16 The finals are fast making me a fan of the works of Hedo Turkoglu. #
• 20:25 Also, Pietrus is my new favorite French basketball player. Not sure who my previous favorite was. #
• 21:04 @mbruchas: Yeah, but all readers for it will be obsolete in five years. #
• 21:09 "My dream is to talk to pigeons." I think my TOTALLY HILARIOUS threshold is currently ridiculously low. #

• 09:17 Oh, Judaism, you're so wacky. bit.ly/8QLFw #
• 17:53 Just for the record? There is currently someone in the Pharmacology mail room photocopying the Epistle to the Hebrews. #

• 10:41 @cvalenti: Does the iPhone not have an even more text messages plan? #
• 15:57 When Black Dynamite comes out on DVD, I'm going to buy it & watch it every day for the rest of my life. THAT'S HOW AWESOME IT IS. #
• 16:14 @cvalenti: ...and? #
• 16:17 At Green Lake with my lady friend while she swims. #
• 17:48 @jaysh: Cool. #
• 23:30 "Weep for the future, Na'Toth. WEEP FOR US ALL." #

• 01:19 This may violate certain laws of physics, but it appears that the new Alestorm album is EVEN MORE AWESOME than Captain Morgan's Revenge. #

• 11:46 "The new RET-4 Rectal probe for very small animals (neonatal mice)." Some days I love my job for all the wrong reasons. #
• 21:09 Totally pissed at Cris' advisor. #
• 22:04 On the upside, Scum of the Earth's *Blah...Blah...Blah...Love Songs for the New Millennium* turns out to be even better than *Sleaze Freak*. #
• 22:52 You've got me, Netflix. I am ALL ABOUT Steamy Independent Sexual-Awakening Movies. And Mind-bending Foreign Action & Adventure. #
• 22:57 Um, Hyde will be opening for Vamps at the Showbox the same night Lacuna Coil are playing Neumo's, and I'll be at a wedding? F you, Seattle. #

• 21:19 B5 on sale @ Best Buy for $19.99 / season... they were out of season 1 so I only spent $80. #
• 23:01 Tonight's Rock Band 2 purchases: Alice Cooper - Poison, Ministry - LiesLiesLies & Great Satan. Next week: IRON MAIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #

• 08:45 Ann Friedman & Ezra Klein on the need for a political response to the Tiller murder: tinyurl.com/nusg65 tinyurl.com/mv3rru #

The company plans to announce on Monday that it will add all Sony Music tracks that are more than two years old, including material from artists like Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel... As part of the deal, eMusic says it will slightly raise prices and reduce the number of downloads for some of its monthly plans.

• 10:32 YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME. #
• 11:47 ...even the mafia doesn't kill people at churches or hospitals. #
• 11:49 Tiller killer on run. 90's era light blue Ford Taurus with Kansas tags. Registered in Merriam, Ks. Tags: 225-BAB #tiller (RT @eaglephotos) #
• 14:36 Suspect in Tiller killing arrested. www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/833730.html #
• 17:16 Donating to Planned Parenthood www.plannedparenthood.org/ and Medical Students for Choice tinyurl.com/chcrtc #
• 17:43 I donated to Medical Students for Choice because with Tiller dead, there is now one late-term abortion performer in the US. We need more. #
• 21:32 @adelemurray: You're welcome! Just spreading the love. #
• 21:33 Beer, birthday cake, and Sister Machine Gun. Doing alright. #

• 13:05 Just saw _Beast Stalker_ at #SIFF. Shockingly good; ok story amazingly well told. Hope to review at lj later. #
• 21:01 Watching Slivvie's band, All My Friends Are Here. yfrog.com/0kk1pjj #

• 17:34 "Altered focus / My sheer transparent one" #
• 17:49 "We are the only ones right now that are suffocating, we are the dying ones right now." #
• 17:55 "There's no more limits and no more fear / because now I know that the end is near." #
• 18:12 "Swim, little dolphin, swim (swim swim swim)" #
• 18:48 "It's like I think I was immune to the pieces of me in the sun and in the shadow." #
• 19:29 I would declare tonight "Britpop Night" at casa del Mal y Chesh, but I'm limited by the fact that I have like three songs. #
• 21:52 "You were from a perfect world / A world that threw me away / Today" #
• 21:53 @umckinney: Sounds awesome. Am jealous. #
• 21:55 Paul Krugman blockquoting Dr. Evil is a bit surreal: bit.ly/127iA1 #

• 09:27 "Walk by with a nod and a reminisce / I swear to god, hip-hop and comic books were my genesis" #

• 15:45 At Gasworks park with some Mac kids. Frisbee, followed by JoCo singalong. #
• 16:18 "Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?" #

• 08:25 "Grant me wings that I might fly, my restless soul is longing..." #
• 08:27 "We all know he's not afraid because Rayden cannot die... He's the mystic warrior with eternal life!" #
• 08:31 ""Rock! Dead on the case! I wanna hit your face!" #
• 18:09 "There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief. #

• 12:12 Stolen from JWZ, Fear & Loathing the board game: www.jrbaldwin.com/boardgame #
• 17:56 Listening to people on the bus try to explain the Terminator franchise... Wow. #

• 16:12 How can a business both have a loudly displayed dress code AND have lingerie bartenders durins happy hour... a couple blocks from campus? #
• 16:14 Blew b-day money on Rock Band 2, or as I like to call it, my "biofeedback training set." #
• 19:18 Thanks to the book of nine swords, I may never have to role-play a non-wuxia character ever again. #
• 19:38 Wait a second. Did the Tamil Tigers just surrender? bit.ly/BNJpR
  Failing to compute. #

• 20:38 "Why are you coming home so late? Where are you going? Why are your pants so SHINY?" #
• 21:06 How did I either miss or forget that near the end of Dead or Alive 2 Riki Takeuchi shoots down the *statue of liberty*? #

• 18:13 I shouldn't be so surprised that there's a 12" version of Doctorin' the Tardis. And yet, is it not eight minutes of awesome? #

• 23:24 is frustrated with gender roles. #
• 23:31 @nemoren: That sounds delicious. #
• 23:32 I've been inspired; suddenly I'm trying to convince Cris to go to the grand canyon next summer. tinyurl.com/q748hz #