Linky links - July 27

• From the Consumerist:
  
  

  Aquafina labels will soon say "Public Water Source,"
  

  
  
  

  Universal Music Group issues DMCA takedown notice on low quality video clip of 18 month old boy. Now the EFF is suing them back. Go EFF!

  
  
  
• XKCD, the best nerd comic of all time: "My profanity usage by cause".
  
  
• Pork:
  
  (09:34) jamesn: Guess how many earmarks in the House Defense spending bill
  (09:34) lancer: 250
  (09:34) lancer: :)
  (09:35) jamesn: It is a more patriotic number than that
  (09:35) lancer: hmmm
  (09:35) lancer: 17
  (09:35) jamesn: 1776
  (09:35) jamesn: http://porkbusters.org/DefensePork0726.htm
  
  
• The YouTube debates (democratic candidates), very nicely done!
  
  
• I was telling James the other day that lately when I walk around all I see are gigantic fat people, just extremely overweight. We decided maybe I was just hanging around in the wrong places, like the Papa Johns parking lot. Nope, that wasn't it: US obesity map.
  
  
• Scott Adams has some unique ideas about immigration. Scott has become my favorite blogger. If you don't know his name, you know his work: Dilbert.
  

I am now officially divorced

... I'll have to write more on this later. Right now my mind is kind of swirling.

Ok I'm back...

I've been waiting for this day for a long time now. Almost two years really. I finally filed in May, and thought it was going to take forever to actually happen. But I got the call today. Its final.

As soon as I heard that my brain kicked into this weird other gear that I'm not sure I've experienced many times before. Maybe gear is the wrong word...it was (and still is) more like in a blurry state of daze. My skin feels tingly.

I'm not upset, but I'm not happy. Maybe I am a little happy, but only the kind of happy feeling you get from a weight being lifted off your shoulders. Of course I'll never be happy that my marriage failed, though.

Woah this is weird.

The picture above is the actual hand of the one who left me. That's the actual ring that the one who left me decided she was not going to give back to me (I'm not going to get into that particular classy move). The picture below is one she did with charcoal, called "Two Faced". Funny how the meaning of that one changed looking back.