Stan “The Man” Lee, God of Marvel Comics, came to Pixar and held a QA session for an hour - just amazingly fucking hellacool!, as Amy might put it - highly entertaining, and also just awe inspiring just to be in the audience. Someone had the nerve to ask: “In a fight, who would win - Thor or the Hulk?” and the answer started out as the typical copout answer: “Well it would depend - what do you feel in your heart? It depends on the artist.” But then: “However, since you asked. The Hulk is the strongest mortal alive..” (scattered cheers from Hulk fans) “.. BUT Thor is after all the immortal son of Odin. So… Thor would win. I have spoken.” (more cheers)

I have decided that Marie Callendar’s frozen dinners are the equivalent of culinary toxic waste. Never will I buy anything besides Stouffers.

Metallica tickets arrived today.

I couldn’t access my home machine during the afternoon, which brought on paranoid images of someone breaking into my place and hauling everything away. Of course when I got home this wasn’t the case, but my DSL connection was indeed dead. Various attempts on the software side of things were not helpful so I called up the Inreach helpdesk - after some random useless tips (”Have you tried rebooting?”) the guy suggested I powering down and powering up the DSL modem. And what do you know, it actually worked.