Monday Night Open Thread

Lightning got my Roku.

No, I’m not happy about it. But, hey, stuff happens, right?

If that’s the worst thing that’s happened to me in the past month, I’m doing pretty good.

Oh, I almost forgot. This is a shameless plug to the blog post I wrote about losing the Roku. I wrote it over at my little blog. Go read it. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you.

You are the boss, though. Well, at least for this post. You get to pick what we talk about. It’s Monday Night Open Thread.

What’s on your mind?

Link of the Day: The Downside – It Makes Lawyers Look Good. The Upside – It Makes Government Look Like Pure Repressive Evil. You Can Probably Guess Which Outweighs What for Me.

[High Praise! to Hot Air]

Country Time: If your kid gets fined for opening a lemonade stand, we’ll cover it

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Icebreaker: What’s Your Favorite Place of All the Places You’ve Traveled?

Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data

76 Fun Icebreaker Questions

Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)

Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.

If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.

What’s your favorite place of all the places you’ve traveled?

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Christmas in Singapore was pretty cool, too. All the stores decorated for it, but its not really a native holiday. It added a strange flavor to a familiar event.