decidedlyodd

I just ran across a site that sells various forms of Saarland Paraphernalia. Yes, you too can buy a thong emblazoned with the official flag of the Saarland. Uh, ya. Seriously though, I might buy myself a t-shirt. Obscure references are fun.

So, after reading Jenn’s interesting comment/question:

Hey Jeff! I wanted to ask… do you recommend North Carolina, the state, as a whole? I’m applying for grad school there and everyone is trying to dissuade me but I figured you should be the one I should ask seeing as you live there and all

I got inspired to [...]

Sometimes, it really surprises me how provincial a town like Chapel Hill can be. From today’s Daily Tar Heel: Greensboro teen arrested for possession of beer:

Chapel Hill police arrested a Greensboro teenager Monday at 12:45 a.m. and charged him with one misdemeanor count of underage possession of a malt beverage, police reports state.

According to [...]

Well, I went and found the old database from the old blog and managed to copy over all the posts and comments. Unfortunately, WordPress made some database schema changes between the old version of their software and this newly installed version, so I had to brush up on my old MySQL skills to write [...]