The Brothers Three and the Irrelevant Coin.

So, over the weekend I went to watch my little siblings while my parents flew out to California. Tim had his girlfriend come over for the day and she brought "V for Vendetta." Just as we were about to eat dinner, a couple of Tim's friends, Sean and James I think they were, showed up. Seems he (or she, I'm not sure) invited them without giving me a heads-up. It wasn't a problem, just caught me by surprise. Anyways, this led to a long span of talking and joking, until people started wondering aloud if we were going to watch the movie, keep talking or... some third thing. There was a quick Brothers Three moment in there that went something like this:

SEAN (having just acquired a coin to make our decision): So, heads we watch the movie and tails we... what?

ANDREW: See, that's what I don't get. There's really nothing else TO do. It's either watch the movie, or not. I don't see why this is so hard to deci-

GREG: Just flip the coin!

We all broke out in laughter then for a good five minutes. Then Sean flipped the coin.
And it came up tails.

We watched the movie anyways.

Oldest Ritual Ever

I'm not sure, really, what the implications of This might be -- that there's evidence of 70,000-year old ritualistic behaviors in humans when it was believed we didn't have the capability earlier than 40,000 years ago -- but it's an interesting thing to think about. Lots of fun things to kick around one's brain while the hardware prototypes one is supposed to be testing a breaking left and right in the most frustrating ways.

Windows Vista

This article on some of the Pros and Cons of the new Vista OS presents a few features that might make it worth getting. At the same time, though, I'm skeptical of the vast hardware requirements that Vista has, the resources it will consume and, frankly, if Vista is incompatible with my current Windows-based games, I'd just as soon switch to Linux and wrestle with wine (a Windows emulator for Linux).