Monday: Travel agents are useful still.

Mostly because they seem to know the magic ways to book multi-city flights without all the bullshit of the regular-people booking systems.  That means that barring anything weird going on, I will be able to tack on a vacation stay at the end of my Europe trip.  Still have to wait through a four hour layover at LAX, though.

• This was in my list of links, but then I saw this on Twitter.  I'm guessing having 90+% of the writers agree to authorize the strike did exactly what it was supposed to do.
• Drawing birds wrong.
• Why we have art.
• I'm pretty sure you could design a more poorly thought out "research," but it's a bit of a challenge.
• Evangelion.
• Ditto.