More stuff you can buy me

If you are a person who buys me Christmas presents and are stumped, here are a few things I think are cool:
Collision Course
Crimes Against Logic
Hold'em
Winning

Vacation

For those of who like to know things of this nature... In case you haven't seen enough of me in the last few months, I will be "vacationing" in sunny Boston from December 18th (6pm-ish) to the 26th (5pm-ish). Just two weeks away. Try not to miss me too much in the interim.

Out the window

Merriam Webster has released their list of Words of the Year for 2004. Coming in at #1: (drumroll please)... Blog! For comparison, here's last year's list. I find it amusing that democracy topped last year's list, but didn't even appear in this election year. I guess everyone was too concerned about partisan incumbents...
In any event, it's always nice to see defenestration on the list. That is a quality piece of linguistic construction.