My last post of 2005, and I have both nothing really important to say, but also a lot to catch-up stuff to mention. Ugh.

We've listened to some sweet music at work lately, including:

"Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" (album) by Bright Eyes
"Shine" by Kevin Reeves
"Sound Scientist" by Bill
"Get Behind Me Satan" (album) by The White Stripes
"Betty" by The Lascivious Biddies (check out their biddycast!)
"Good" by Better Than Ezra
"From Under The Cork Tree" (album) by Fall Out Boy
"Trashed & Scattered" by Avenged Sevenfold (A7X)

I enjoyed some very tasty Blue Diamond Honey Roasted Almonds, as well as some delicious imported Lindt Extra Fine Dark Chocolate ("Lindt Excellence", made in France) - 70% cocoa. Mmmmm.

Adam Curry has been discussing the Gillette M3 Power razor a lot lately (on his Daily Source Code). In a fluke deal, I also got one of these razors a short while ago (although I got the cooler black Nitro version). The vibrating head gives the illusion of using an electric razor, while still getting the satisfying close shave of a triple-blade wet razor. It does numb your hand, though. The weird thing is that I accidentally dropped the razor and lost the orange lube strip on the initial blade, and I thought it wouldn't matter that much, but -oh- was I wrong! That little orange strip is the secret of the smoothness of the whole experience!

At work, we also recently listened to the Bodybuilding.com-sponsored broadcast of the Boston College vs. Boise State game (the MPC Computers Bowl) on the radio. It was a very rainy second half, and Boise almost won it, but couldn't quite pull it off during the last minute. They came from behind, though, and scored three touchdowns within one quarter and were just a few yards from winning the whole thing with just 45 seconds left. Very intense last quarter, for sure!

We were all shocked at work about the Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan murder case recently in the news. The Las Vegas abandoned car burning, their fugitive flight to Boston (but not Greece), and subsequent arrest had us all very occupied for a few days.

Weird fact of the day: typing "www.x" in the browser address bar resolves to paypal.com - bizarre. Why'd they register x.com?

We've viewed many Christmas-gift films over the past few days, including "Batman Begins" [Two-Disc Deluxe Edition] (2005; Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman) on widescreen DVD, the entire first season of "House" (2004; Hugh Laurie) on DVD, "Fantastic Four" (2005; Jessica Alba) on DVD, and "Hitch" (2005; Will Smith).

Here's an interesting piece of audio: the signatures of every Billboard Top 100 Chart #1 songs from 1958 to 2000, all mashed into one long song.

Did you hear about the leap second? Speaking of time, we received a very cool, very large SkyScan analog clock (24" diameter, model 88204) over the holidays. It automatically sets itself and keeps itself in sync with the NIST atomic clock in Colorado. Very cool!

Did you know that Silly Putty shatters (instead of stretching, compressing, or molding itself) when impacted forcefully? Very strange.

NOTE: Obviously, this didn't get published on the 31st, but I did start it before the year ended, despite it finally getting onto the site a week later. Thus, I'm calling it my last post of 2005.