Things that made me laugh today

• Stacks of plastic storage boxes in the hallway, labelled 'Hands-on Optics Supplies -- Do Not Touch!'
  
  
• Happy Holidays from SOHO
  
  

Finally!

I got a perfect score on the state-placing game, in 352 seconds. Granted, it helped that I didn't get any hard inland states early on, but I did nail Nebraska without any adjacent states. I've been practicising this for about three weeks, on and off, after someone on rasfc pointed to it, but usually missed one or two inland states by 100m or so. Now I can leave it alone with an easy mind -- and I've learned some US geography in the process.