Wow, XKCD, Just Wow

I had a little bit of a laugh when I read XKCD earlier today. The comic does a play on the Discovery Channel commercial with the song "I Love the Whole World" (I guess that's the title; the comic has a link to the YouTube video of the commercial). It brought back memories from Sunday when the thing was forced into my head (and burrowed so deep that it will never come out). All because I decided to shotgun the Discovery Channel's miniseries "When We Left the Earth." All six hours of it. I have to admit, it was a good set of episodes, chronicling NASA's manned space program, from Mercury to the shuttles. While it did not go into as much detail as I would have liked (two hours on Mercury and Gemini, two on Apollo with a brief discussion of Skylab, and two hours on the shuttles), it did keep my interest. In fact, I kind of wanted to buy the DVD set of the series until I saw the price tag. Maybe something for the Christmas list.

And on a political note, Thurmont is joining the ranks of small towns that are making English their official language. I know the reasons behind it, and they do make some logical sense, but in Thurmont, it seems like declaring water is wet. Perhaps this will require the locals to actually learn and speak grammatically correct English (one can hope, as I'm not sure that some of the natives know basic subject-verb agreement). I guess they solved all the other pressing concerns like fixing the sewer system, getting rid of the corruption in the town's police department (tip: don't destroy exculpatory evidence, especially when the state's attorney tells you to keep it), and figuring out how to pay for the new police station (another tip: don't build a jail right across Main Street from the elementary school, in front of the Little League park, and next to the Senior Citizen's Center, while hiding the local library on some back road in town, far from a main road--thus, let's hope no one escapes from the Thurmont holding cells).