the Dalaverse

On tonight's episode of "The Daily Show," Jon and Eddie Izzard got into an argument about the American Revolution.

I know there are people here who would want that kind of information. so there you go.

Also, I have a question. Turns out when my dad replaced the burner on the desktop, he upgraded to a DVD burner. So yay! Unfortunately nothing I burn will play in a standard, TV-connected DVD player (though it works with computer programs. They're standard DVD+R discs, so I don't think that's the problem; is it that .avi files won't play? If so, is there some (free) way to convert them to a format that will?

It's not a huge deal - they'll still play on my laptop when I take it overseas, and I can still store the files on the discs. But I would like someday to have a more versatile copy of the stuff that's taking up space on my hard drive right now.

Eee, Stephen's doing the story about the guy jumping on the popemobile. I just appreciate the opportunity to say "popemobile." Hee. "He looks like a big napkin! He looks like a big napkin!"