a severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer

well, it was certainly not cool to hear that Mitch Hedburg died...there are rumours floating around that it was a heart attack or a heroin overdose...we'll have to wait and see.

Saw the movie Chinatown today...I had to laugh at the classic line "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown" even though its at a serious part of the movie...I can thank the Simpsons for skewing every pop culture reference of the past 50 years into a joke.
I really like the film noir genre...even though it really isnt done anymore, Chinatown was 1974 and even that was late for the genre, it was mainly the 1940s and 1950s. The most recent movie I can think of in the genre is "The Man who Wasnt There". A lot of the Coen brothers movies are noir-esque in my opinion.

Ellica

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Japanese car called the Ellica. Its completely battery powered using lithium ion batteries, but unlike the common perception of electric cars it is extremely powerful. It can travel 370 km/h, it can go from 1-100 km/h in 4 seconds and it can travel 300 km before the batteries need to be charged. Another great thing is that braking energy is absorbed back into the motors to recharge the batteries. Apparently pollution is becoming a big problem in Japan and they are actually looking into ways to solve the problem. The problem at present is that the batteries for this car cost $230 000 making the total for the car $350 000, but if more is put into the research and development of such projects the price will drop drastically also making this world less dependent on oil. Anyway I see it as a step in the right direction.

The mice are back (they probably never left)

So since I got those things that you plug in that emit a high freqency which you arent supposed to be able to hear but I can hear them and theyre really annonying, I havent seen a mouse in the house and I just asumed that they had left. but the truth came out when I took a close look at the butter I had left on the counter. As you can see from all the tongue marks on the butter the mice are still in full force. I think that mice may have tongues like cats because this is what butter looks like after a cat has been licking it, but I also get the feeling that it might be teeth marks from the mice.