Get the Janus coin!

Hey, this is level 20, okay?

Go Ducks?

Two Saturdays ago, I was at PAX, where football was not a concern. Last Saturday, the Michigan State football game was not broadcast nationally, so I could only listen to the radio broadcast on wjr.com.

I remember hearing jokes in the past about how the University of Oregon must be getting kickbacks or something from Nike for their uniforms to be so garish. Now that I can finally see what MSU's wearing this season, I have to wonder...

IKEA Update

• Number of broken sinuous spring clips: 3
• Fraction of seat where sitting down results in funny noises (post repair): 50%

Oblig.

I'm older than I've ever been
And now I'm even older
And now I'm even older
And now I'm even older
I'm older than I've ever been
And now I'm even older
And now I'm older still

TIME

IS MARCHING ON

AND TIME

IS STILL MARCHING ON

Oh, look, what's this pun doing here?

Background

I've been renting an apartment since I moved for work in January. It is technically a condominium because I am renting it from an individual owner, but it used to be part of a managed community and the building is built like a hotel. According to my neighbor, the complex was renovated and converted into condos about five years ago.

Story

There are two fans in my kitchen. One is a recirculating fan built into a range hood, clearly put in when the condo was converted. There is a second fan built into the wall just above the stove that (presumably) exhausts to the outside. It may be a bit older; it's hard to say.

Tonight, as part of an ongoing project to make my apartment stink less, I took the grate off the wall fan to clean it. When I did so, I discovered that it's the same type of fan that I have in my bathroom. It also has the same type of grate and filter, which is to say that the grate has fairly wide slits and there is no filter. I spent an hour and a half trying to clean the grease build-up off the motor, blades, and enclosure; but I don't think I succeeded to any significant extent.

Punchline

I know this seems like an awfully trivial story to have told, but I needed to vent.

(true story, though, sad to say)