Yesterday my friend Nick asked if I wanted to join him and some of our other friends for lunch. I went along, knowing full well how plans can grow and change. After lunch, we played airsoft at a park in my neighborhood. Then we went to Mark's local park, where there was enough room to play baseball. Actually, since we didn't have enough people for that, we had a home run derby. I think it was my first time playing baseball of any kind. I swung at every pitch, so I didn't last very long. I didn't hit any either. After taking a break at Mark's house, we had played football and then had pizza. Then we played poker. (Texas hold 'em, of course. That variant is so popular that it's annoying. What happened to old five card draw?) So yeah, it was a pretty busy day yesterday. What started as lunch outing became a fun day out.

Tonight's plans: going to see The Dark Knight at midnight. Of course, advance tickets will be necessary. But I just found out: everybody has them except me, and their tickets are for a screen that's now sold out! Awesome! I just got a ticket for the other showing, which I hope to exchange with another moviegoer who's willing to help me out. Surely there'll be measures in place to prevent theater-hopping.

I'm a college student, and the purpose of college is to prepare one for a job. Therefore, I'm being prepared for a job. I've decided that working on software would be pretty cool, so that's what I'm studying. Whenever I mention this, the Bill Gates comparisons fly. I don't want to be the next Bill Gates. I believe in free software, which gives users essential freedoms, while Microsoft believes that they should have total control over the users of their software. Microsoft and most other software companies write non-free software. I find this practice to be unethical. So I need to know: where can I get a job developing free software? I know they exist. The Free Software Foundation even lists a few. But are they more widespread than that (perhaps under the name "open source")? Are there other free software jobs that I'm not thinking of? I don't want to be a sysadmin.

Here are 10 bizarre species names. They're pretty bizarre.

Another list: the Top Tourist Spots Americans Can't Visit. I haven't visited any of them because I can't.

This seems pretty simple, and it would make an awesome project. How to Build Hover Shoes. Caveat: there's soldering involved.