Weekend stuff

1. I'm officially on vacation until 7/8. Woohoo!

2. I've finally eaten at Elephant Walk (for a co-worker's going-away lunch, alas), and I'm damned impressed. Yum.

3. The Complete Man From U.N.C.L.E.! From Time-Life, alas.

4. Sadly, the Spice Girls reunion tour is only a reminder of the fact that no matter how bad an artist might have once seemed, enough sucktastic acts will eventually come along to embue the older act with a sheen of nostalgia. Ten years from now, mark my words, someone out there is going to say, "thank God for this Nickelback reunion tour." That someone will not, incidentally, be me.

5. As noted by boutell: Wookiepedia. It pretty much speaks for itself.

6. Good news: Moonlight, the CBS vampire series that is now being produced by former Angel executive producer David Greenwalt (although he wasn't around for the final and best season) has cast Jason Dohring as a vampire. The bad news: they've also cast Shannon Sossaman. Unless they've cast her in a non-speaking role, expect every scene featuring her to be painful to watch.

7. Speaking of things that suck, how about that new CNN.com?

8. A Wii-Lightsaber game!

9. This coming weekend, we'll be up at ReaderCon!

10. I got my first ever significant Freecycle item yesterday -- a nice Honeywell two-fan window unit. With remote control and thermostat, even.

11. We also went to a nice party at sunspiral's yesterday. I got peopled out after a few hours, but it was still very much with the fun (there are too few parties at which conversations about film noir break out). Apologies to all the folks I failed to recognize (woo for faceblindness and general forgetfulness!), and for anyone I didn't say goodbye to.

12. Google wins the "why transparency and catering to your big corporate advertisers don't mix" award. "Do no evil," my ass. (Ganked from Some BIts).

13. Mike Hargrove resigned? Wow. That was seriously unexpected. Especially considering how well the Mariners are doing.

14. Finally, Happy Canada Day!