Anything exciting happen while I was away?

I was away from my desktop computer and, not wanting to carry my tablet which in its Griffin case, suitable for driving over with a truck, is bloody heavy, I tried to read the net on my phone, and presumably punched some button that marked all posts as read. I'm damned if I'll read all the old posts again to discover the new ones.

So, did anything exciting happen in the last day or two? Did any of the usual clowns disgrace themselves? Did one of the usual clowns turn into a philosopher-king? That would be a turn-up for the books.

Man, I had my own computer when they had vacuum tubes and it lived in a huge air- and humidity-controlled basement in my faculty's admin building and the monkeys telling me what I couldn't do on it -- which invariably I found a way of doing -- wore white coats. But you didn't code it with the edge of your pinky-nail. Progress isn't always all that it is cracked up to be.

Andre Jute
I save my pinky-nail for digging wax out of my ear -- the Ur-Philosopher Alfred E. Neumann
I use my little finger to dig in my nose -- Sir A. J. Ayer, Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford