Yesterday I didn’t post at all. That isn’t normal for me. I’ve been run off my butt trying to get all the last minute stuff arranged for the 2010 Calgary Beer Core Awards, kicking up the search for sponsors, getting things ready for my birthday show and the Mentors show I’m booking, and all the rest of the craziness in my zany life. To make matters more time-sensitive, I’m off to visit my wonderful children for the weekend, and will be persona au gratin.

I figured I’d post something quick here with comments on a few topics I wanted to pass on.

PZ Myers
Yeah, I’m a fan. PZ is a fantastic prick, one of the people I can truly look up to in life. And unfortunately, he had a rather significant health scare recently in the form of heart troubles. For those of you who are interested, he has had surgery. They installed some stents and all appears to be exceptionally well. My apologies to any of the faithful who were praying for his deathbed conversion, but it appears that PZ will be back on the horse very soon, spraying his blasphemies to all corners of the known world. For details, check out his post on Pharyngula.

iTunes University
I’m not sure how well understood this service is, so I thought I’d mention it. I love iTunes University. It’s free college course material on a myriad of topics that you can download and listen (and in some cases, watch) on your iPod. I had previously downloaded an introductory biology course from MIT (the genetics portion of which was lectures by Eric Lander, which was just extremely cool for me) and am now enjoying a course called Jazz Insights.

Whatever your interests, there’s courses on the topic available for free. Who wouldn’t love this service?

At any rate, that does it for me for today. Hope you’re all well and happy.

Jim