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In other news for the night, my hookah has arrived, and it is glorious! I put off finishing my parts of the paper for a few hours to spend a significant amount of time figuring out why my new investment wasn’t producing nearly enough smoke (for some reason, the plug/stopper had a giant hole through it, which I eventually fixed with some freshly chewed gum) and then to introduce about 20g of shisha into my body. I think the massive amounts of nicotine were hugely beneficial to the completion of our final project, and I look forward to indulging in plenty more hookah fun throughout all of next week (no finals!). If anyone wants to play music during this time of frivolity, do get in touch!

Finally, the weather's starting to warm up, Spring is in the air, and with our recent turn of the clocks, days seem to be lasting forever (in a good way). I thought it was an appropriate time for a change of background, from my existing one, depicting a seemingly dignified feline staring, trance-like, beyond two caged canaries, to something more...Springy.

Coincidentally, shortly after changing my desktop to one of the backgrounds I discovered at PixelGirlPresents (my preferred desktop/icon distributor), I came across a link in Google Reader for 20 high-quality desktop sites. Just thought I'd throw that out there if anyone else is a freak and changes their desktop backgrounds to correspond with the seasons.

But even if I knew that 10-20% of each article I read was inaccurate, I would still probably use it as a resource. Off the top of my head, I don't know any substitutes that compare to Wikipedia (although I'm sure I could find some mediocre alternatives if I tried), and it's become such a habit at this point that it's sort of strange imagining a world without it. At this point, I think that, similar to Napster and music filesharing, Wikipedia has become embedded in enough people's lives that if anything should ever happen to it (legally or otherwise), plenty of substitutes would pop up immediately.

Upon Googling "define: wikipedia", I came up with some interesting results:

• “A Web-based, free-content encyclopedia,” available in numerous languages. It "is one of the most popular reference sites on the Internet."
• Modern aluminium beer barrels - also called casks or kegs - outside the Castle Rock Barrels often have a convex shape, bulging at the middle.
• The term church originated from the pre-Christian Germanic kirika. St.Simon church in Aleppo,Syria is considered to be one of the oldest.
• A nonparasitic antigen capable of stimulating a type I hypersensitivity reaction in atopic individuals is called an allergens.
• The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They began playing in the National Hockey League as an expansion team in...
• FAME can also be an abbreviation for:. Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer, an astrometric satellite designed to measure the positions of stars very...
• Dean Blakesley was the author of the first English Life of Aristotle (1839), an edition of Herodotus (1852-1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica.
• The is a small breed of dog usually Such s can be seen in many of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
• Among other problems, the real Billy the Kid spoke Spanish fluently and could read and write ... Jon Bon Jovi's album Blaze of Glory; Charlie Daniels 's song, Billy the Kid; Billy Dean 's song...

Maybe I should be more concerned with the information I encounter using Google's "define" method (which also comes up very frequently for me)...