distractions.

Jim Webb, you are my favorite former Republican.

As expected Tom Vilsack is in it for 2008. Now we wait for others.

Tonight is supposed to be the night to work on extra-curricular activities, but the two main topics of interest in my life are the increasing disappointment with my chocolate-chip cookie recipe and the fact that I might not like the Beatles.

Regarding the first issue I have no problems with the taste, just the texture in that it's just too chewy and cake-like for a cookie. The next time around I'll change the white-to-brown sugar proportion (currently 3 TS to 1/2 cup) to make it more equal. On the second I have nothing to say except I'll probably be excoriated for holding such an opinion, but there it is.

A small firm I like has the cover to one of the final issues (or maybe the final) of Architecture.

I'll end with a friend's observations from an architecture party even though I believe the architect stereotype is simply lame. I mean, that Fountainhead book totally sucks.

[T]he finance and real estate people embodied their stereotypes to a staggering degree. I suppose we did too, but our stereotype is undeniably cooler. One weird thing: the place was packed with Canadians.