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Sentence completion is described as a technique to help you squeeze more out of your brain. Basically, it forces you to go past the first idea that pops into your head and start reaching for the 4th or 5th. I can see where that would have power. Usually, I seem to be trying to quiet my brain rather than super-charge it, but I’ll have to remember to give it a shot sometime.

I’d never been to the Norton Simon Museum before. I had some time today though, so I made the trek up to Pasadena. I was really impressed. That’s a very nice museum. It’s not the largest museum, but their collection is still great and surprisingly diverse. Plus, they let metake a bunch of photos, so that was cool. It’s certainly worth checking out if you live in the LA area. I think I like it more than LACMA, and I certainly like it a bunch more than LA MOCA.

The unholy marriage of Monty Python and Tolkien. Monty Python: Fellowship of the Ring is quite possibly the ultimate in geek comedy.

My site’s been having problems the past few days, so this is just a mike check.

I’m not sure I really get max Weber’s Pit. I thought it was a game or something, but it just seems to be an interesting way to present some silly little animations. Some of the animations are interesting. Many are not. Still, if you haven’t seen it, I guess maybe you should.

Robots in disguise? Sure, but also break dancers.

Transformers, break dancing, it’s got everything. To quote NortonDC from MeFi (from which I got the link), “My generation has the coolest dorks ever.”

Word.

Wow! I love Dushan’s illustrations. I’m not as big a fan of the interface. I guess there’s something to be said for being surprised, but would it kill you to give me an idea of what I’m going to get when I click?

Anyway, if you’re in to trippy, extremely colorful illustrations, then check ‘em out. They really are great.

I’ve played on-line click to make surprising things happen and solve the puzzle games like The Quest For The Rest before. (it’s a viral for The Polyphonic Spree’s new record). I never seem to do very well with them for some reason, and true to form it took me about 5 minutes of clicking the same hot spots to finally work out what I was supposed to be doing on the opening screen (hint - don’t waste your time trying to drop a berry on the mouse; that ain’t it).

Once I got going though, the puzzles ended up being as uncomplex as their music, and when I finally got to the end after like 3 or 4 screens I was like what — that’s it?

Anyway, it’s pretty at least. I was kind of starting to enjoy it until I realized there wasn’t anything to it.

In case you were wondering, if you stay up until 4 AM to finish reading Children of God, Mary Doria Russell’s just OK follow up to her exceptional book The Sparrow, you will sleep through your alarm the next day, and you will be cranky and tired at work, and you will write extremely convoluted run-on sentences.

Next up on the reading list is An Unfinished Life — a recommendation from my supervisor at work. Not tonight though. Tonight, I need to get some sleep, lots and lots of glorious sleep. Even the web is making me so very, very sleeeeeepppppyyyyy zzzzzzzzzzzz…..