Miscellanea. Briefly.

First:  Notre Dame won yesterday and rather convincingly, too.  This tells me nothing more than Utah was waaaay overrated.  Oh.  And that Rees kid looked pretty promising in his debut.  It was good to have something to cheer, cheer about yesterday in what has been an otherwise dismal season.

While we're on about football... I was hoping JoePa's boys would pull it off in the Horseshoe yesterday.  Alas...

Second:  I finally got Firefox to install correctly after the third uninstall/reinstall drill.  PCs are mysterious damned things.

Third:  Found a cool new blog last evening:  The Vintagent.  Proprietor Paul d'Orléans, currently living in Paris, publishes some very well researched narrative about, and tasty photos of, vintage mo'sickles.  Paul bills his blog as "The World's #1 Vintage Motorcycle Site" and I think he may be right.  I've seen none better.

Finally... from My Buddy Ed In Florida:

David is to be returned to Italy.
A bit of cultural news for a welcome change. 
 

  
  
After a 2 year loan to the United States,

Michelangelo's David is being returned to Italy.

 

His Proud Sponsors were:

(McDonalds logo)  (Starbucks logo)  (Burger King logo)

OK, that's good P-Shop work and it's clever.  But WTF does Starbucks have to do with getting fat?  And don't give me that crap about about double-mocha-caramel-macchiatos having 10,000 calories.  No one drinks three or four of those a day.