Assorted Thoughts 48: Oh Hi Florida, You're Really Warm Edition

• Are people in permanent comas fair game for vegetarian cannibals?
• Dear diary: Today my genius for humor was again unappreciated.
• Best convention double-booking ever: the Chihuahua Fancier's Society and the American Association of Deinonychus Breeders.
• I'm going to school in an area with the highest concentration of military power and installations in the world.  Needless to say, if the nuclear apocalypse comes, it's basically Target #2 in the United States.  Frankly, I think it's a bit comforting to know I'll be one of the first ones to be vaporized.  I'm pretty sure I'm not up to the task of fighting mutants for my survival, and I'd rather be fine ash floating across the wasteland on the breeze than having my guts torn out by savage quasi-humanoid monstrosities.
• Star Wars EU and sword & sorcery crossover: Game of Thrawns.
• Something I'd like to see: a chromed-out lowrider with massive subwoofers blasting NPR.
• I kind of want to set up an email account using the address 192.168.0.1@gmail.com and use it to send people creepy messages.
• Unfortunately, on further research, you need a letter in the address.  And as usual, I'm not as funny or creative as I thought, since people took a bunch of similar ones already.  Still open is 192.168.O.6@gmail.com, though!
• As a grad student, you rapidly learn that the best way to shop for office furniture is to go to Hall-Mart.  Walk down the hallways and see what people have left out without a name on it, then grab it and run.
• I definitely think that those biologists who study swallows must have a really rough time due to all the Monty Python jokes.