Electric Josh

It's really too bad I can't stay up until 11:30 most nights anymore, because Futurama is on just about every night. Man, what an excellent show:

Professor: Good news everyone!
Bender: I don't like the sound of this...
Professor: You're all off to Trisol, a planet with three suns...
Bender: Here it comes...
Professor: ...Deep in the heart of the Forbidden Zone!
Bender: Thank you and goodnight. (Drinks.)
Leela: Uh, Professor, are we even allowed in the Forbidden Zone?
Professor: Why, of course! It's just a name, like the Death Zone or the Zone of No Return. All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror.

Let the games begin. Real live stories of Olympic athletes partying and screwing around like, uh, kids... "I went to a party thrown by Sports Illustrated magazine with my roommate, Jud Logan [an American hammer thrower]. We got pretty shit-faced and ended up wrestling in the street. Jud picks me up and just body-slams me - damn near knocks me out. Anyway, the next thing I know we’re in some girl’s hotel room. She worked for Speedo." Better yet, "Being at the village is like taking your place in a wild anatomical parade seen nowhere else on the planet."
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This guy has constructed an unbelievably neat animated map of his bike ride from Marina Bay (here in Quincy) to Provincetown, out at the end of Cape Cod. If the animation, constructed from GPS data, apparently, is to be believed, then he braved some astonishingly busy roads, including highways that I don't even like to drive a big, heavy car on. Have fun and try to imagine the scenery.
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