Somone who will remain sorta nameless tried to tell me that i had an extra s on the end of Ross’s Pizza. Having an english class or two between first grade and 4 years of college that seems to be the one thing i have learned. The first time the topic was brought up was in the 4th grade with Mrs Sherri Allen. Apparently i was the only 4th grader (who’s name ended in an s) who’d ever thought to ask what the correct way of doing things was as she’d never thought about it before. She went home to her husband (who was an english major) that night and asked him and he said ‘s, but didn’t seem to give a good reason for it. So it begain, i asked several other teachers through school including two english professors at UK about the subject and only one of them (a middle school english teacher) said Ross’. A side note that my english 101 professor had 5 PhD’s the first of which was english and had been teaching 101 for 25 years b/c he “liked to get to students before they had the chance to learn bad practices.” It was the only english class i ever enjoyed. I worked my ass off and got a C and was really happy with it (though i wasn’t happy all my friends were writing trivial essays on newsweek articles and getting A’s while i was working Civilization and Its Discontents. That was the part that i enjoyed though, it was as much a philosophy class as english, that kept my interest. Anyway back on subject. All of those teachers asked, 5 or 6 with the exception of 1, said Ross’s was correct. But said friend wouldn’t believe me. Since everyone seems to assume that i suck at spelling and grammer, which i do. So i had to go looking/digging for a few minutes and i found this page. So i’ll sleep good tonight knowing that as (almost) always i’m right and (much of) the rest of the world is mostly wrong, heh.

Ever been sitting at home really bored wanting for something to do? Of course you have. While in that situation did it ever occur to you that you could go hunting without leaving the comfort of you computer chair. Your friends at Live-Shot.com have installed the first internet connected firearm. Right now it can only be used for target practice, shooting paper targets. Soon though you will be able to hunt big game. This /. post has more information.

Kim Peek was the primary inspiration for the movie Rain Man. He is consider a Mega-Savant, though he is not autistic. A Savant, but not an Autistic Savant. Kim possesses an astonishing knowledge of several subjects including literature, history, geography, sports, and numbers even though he’s not self-suficent and requires assistance for normal day-to-day tasks. He has an eidetic memory or photographic memory and can recite phone numbers, dates, people at will. All of this was sparked by a recent /. post about new studies being conducted by NASA. I’ve seen several documentaries that inculded segments on him and other extroidinary savants, the human mind is an interesting thing.

A recent New York Times article on how data is collected and used by Wal-Mart points to some interesting facts. Namely that sales of beer and pop-tarts rise several-fold before the arrival of a hurricaine. It’s to be expected that necessities like water and flashlights would sell, but pop-tarts? I originally learned of this from a /. post. It made for itneresting reading (to me anyway.) As usually registration is required to read the NYT’s online article, just make something up.