Good timing

This afternoon, my work ID badge unexpectedly broke. I was worried they wouldn't make me a new one and I'd have to patch it back together, but when I went to see the office manager she reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a new badge with my picture on it! Apparently they just made up new ID cards for this academic year, and she was about to come give me mine.

It still has my old picture, from when I was growing out my hair. It still has my old job title. And it still says "Carnegie Melon" on the back. But it's all bright and shiny, and it will let me through locked doors. So w00t!

Best Peninsula story ever

It's so good, I'm reprinting it in its entirety.

Woman beats up porn-addict hubby
Web posted at: 8/20/2005 2:34:36
Source ::: The Peninsula

Doha: A Qatari woman bashed her husband up after he refused to stop watching pornographic films on TV, reports Al Sharq was told. She has gone to her parents' house and is demanding divorce.

The wife was against her husband watching dirty films because they had young children, including grown-up daughters.

The husband used to watch vulgar films in the night when the children were asleep. But on the night when there was scuffle with their mother screaming at the top of her voice and beating their father up, the children woke up and came rushing only to see a porno film being screened on the TV. "That was what I was fearing," Al Sharq quoted their mother as saying.