It's the weekend!

On Friday, when 5:00 rolls around (the time I get out of my last class), I don't find myself very excited. Instead, I'm exhausted. These two-day weekends are too short. At least last semester I got done for the week at 10:30 on Friday morning. (I know what you're saying: I shouldn't complain because I have no classes on Tuesdays. But it doesn't feel like the weekend on Tuesdays because everyone else has to go to class, and because it's surrounded by Monday and Wednesday. Ugh. Don't even get me started about Wednesday.)

This weekend has been pretty interesting because my roommate's girlfriend came to visit. She's thinking of transferring here, in fact. She arrived on Thursday night and slept in our room. It felt a little odd at first. (She visited one weekend last semester, but I was away most of the time.) In any case, I'm glad to see that the two of them have spent time together. She's already left, actually. I hope she enjoyed her stay. (Actually, I know that she did.)

Random thought: I still can't believe I have a MySpace. Sure, I'm on MySpace constantly, but I don't feel quite like I fit in because I don't partake in the whole "make your profile take 20 minutes to load with semi-transparent images and animated GIFs and bad colors with your favorite song of the moment playing automatically, causing everyone who views your page to turn off their sound" thing.

I can believe I have a Facebook, though. My praises of Facebook still hold. Something I thought about Facebook immediately upon signing up was that it seemed to be "what MySpace wants to be when it grows up." And guess what? MySpace has been trying to grow up. Over the past few months, MySpace has been adding Facebook-like features such as statuses and photo-tagging. Now they're nagging everyone to enter their full name for search purposes, which is something many people haven't done in the past. (On Facebook, users go by their full names, while on MySpace, users can change their display name at will.) But the most interesting step is yet to come as MySpace has just announced that it's going to open its API to outside developers. Translation: Facebook-style apps on MySpace. Yeah.

Is it useful to have a profile on more than one social networking site? I would say yes. Each seems to have its strengths and weaknesses as well as different user bases. The recent finding that Facebook users are more likely to be college-educated than MySpace is mind-numbingly obvious. Facebook tends to be for my college friends and my friends in colleges, while MySpace tends to be for everyone else. In addition, some people just have favorites and spend more time on one than the other.

This whole social networking thing really places decreased relevance on high-school reunions, doesn't it? As a member the first social networking generation to graduate from high school, this remains to be seen. I'll find out in 2017.

So, I guess the Oscars are coming up or something? Here are 79 Years of Best Picture Winners in Posters.

The presidential candidates have been photographed countless times in the past year. Inevitably, some of those photos have been unflattering.

I might have posted something like this before, but it's worth posting again: World's Most Interesting Bridges, Part 2.

This picture makes my head hurt. Have a good look.