Assorted Thoughts 40: I'll Probably Have To Think Up A Themed Post Sooner Or Later Edition

• I recently was relieved to discover that I am not the only one who has nightmares related to breaking my computer.  It's still rather telling that such nightmares are invariably the scariest I have.
• A car in the supermarket parking lot had a bumper sticker reading "Treat me exactly like you would the Queen."  Knowing what I do of British tabloids, I have to wonder if that level of casual denigration, blatant mockery, and incredible scrutiny was quite what the car owner intended.
• I watched or listened to basically the entirety of the South Carolina Republican debate.  I think I learned my lesson, which is to say that if I feel like doing that ever again, giving myself a splenectomy with a rusty grapefruit spoon will be less painful in the long run.  Where did I leave that spoon?
• All the candidates were blatantly pandering to the Republican primary electorate, dominated by the key "Utter Psychopath" demographic.
• Four years of Latin in high school has left me able to do four things with the language: demand a kiss, rob a bank by use of siege weaponry, be slightly more able to interpret the root words of scientific names, and give a sarcastic modification of the gladiator's salute when the professor enters the room to deliver an exam.  Your call on which is more useful.
• There's a lot not to like about American Apparel, but you kind of have to admire a nominally clothing-oriented company that gives so few shits that they will post images that can only be described as soft-core pornography with nary a warning on their website.
• Mountain Dew bills itself as "low sodium" on the cans.  It's nice to know there's at least one way it probably won't kill me!
• I really wish there was a way to find enough data to run a correlation analysis between the presence of Infowars/conspiracy theory bumper stickers and Ron Paul stickers.  I mean, it's obviously there, but if only I could do it with scientific rigor.
• Some other grad students here work on ticks.  I like this, if only because it leads to some entirely too easy pun opportunities.  It is, after all, a ticklish subject.