More troopers
And here is my favourite trooper! André doesn’t think the similarity to be striking, but I think the hair and the glasses look pretty much like they really do. Compare his trooper to his picture in the entry below!
André also found this gallery of about 3 dozen Blogging StorTroopers (& friends).
I’m a trooper
Okay, so I did it too. Because Everyone else is doing it, too!
Go to storTroopers to create a picture of yourself. By the way, I created two storTroopers, and when I hit the ‘Save’ button, my browser crashed – both times. When I restarted my computer and reloaded the page, the image I had created before the crash appeared properly on the right side of the page. I wonder why that happened… (I used IE 5.0 on MacOS 9.)
Pictures, pictures!
Susan has some wonderful photos of San Francisco at night!
How sane am I?
I just found a link to a sanity test on BookNotes. And it says: “You are 14.5454545454545% insane. – You are what the government would have us believe is normal.”
Oh, and by the way, I think a sanity test that seems to give results in periodic decimal fractions is about 99.9898989898989% insane. 
Update: Craig says I shouldn’t feel bad – he thinks I’m at least 43.6363636363636% insane, too. Hmm… is that a compliment? 
United States Postal Service
The USPS seems to be very reliable – and even has a sense of humor! The Annals of Improbable Research conducted some postal experiments and successfully mailed items like an unwrapped pair of tennis shoes, a $20 bill in a clear bag, some old cheese, a molar tooth, and a wrapped brick:
“Wrapped in brown paper […]. Extreme weight for size made package seem suspicious. Notice of attempted delivery received, 16 days. Upon pickup at station, our mailing specialist received a plastic bag containing broken and pulverized remnants of brick. Inside was a small piece of paper with a number code on it. Our research indicates that this was some type of US Drug Enforcement Agency release slip. The clerk made our mailing specialist sign a form for receipt.”
Link via MetaFilter.
Lunar eclipse
CNN has a photo gallery with wonderful eclipse photos from Europe and Africa. (Yes, that’s the photo gallery from the article Sheila linked to the other day…)
Link via Sushma Kishore.
Don’t feel bad, Andrea, about your low score on the Sanity Test. I think you’re at least 43.6363636363636% insane! Oh, and, of course the number is in periodic decimal fractions, I mean, we’re talking about a measure of insanity, right?
Well, I’ve done tests like this before on the web, and they all gave boring answers like 47.5 % or so, with just one decimal number behind the dot. (That was a word-for-word translation from German. My math English is very bad.)
Anyway, I’ll take it as a compliment that you think I’m at least as insane as you are. I guess it’s time to get André tested. What do you think, is he more insane than us? “grin”
Well, it’s harder to get a good read on André. He doesn’t flip very often. But, my best guess is that since he’s with you, he’s at least 40.121212121212121% insane.
He doesn’t flip very often.
He flipped a couple of minutes ago! Yep, for the first time this millenium.
I dare say he’s even more insane then I am!
I can’t seem to refrain myself from posting emoticons all over the place today, sorry…
FYI, Craig, I was rated 30,909090909% insane. I think they need to recalibrate that test. I was counting on a three-digit figure at the least…
Don’t feel bad André, I know you can do better if you just try hard enough. You da man.