I've been a pretty lame blogger this week. That's largely because I've been a pretty lame human being — I've had some sort of nasty whiplash-ish condition as a result of my bike accident, and only yesterday arrived at a painkiller dosing schedule that made me less than constantly cranky. I'd like to issue a personal shout-out to the people who make mobic, by the way. A doctor gave me some samples for a sore back a while ago. They didn't do anything for my back, but I stumbled across the leftovers last night and MAN do they fix my neck. Thanks, evil pharmaceutical industry!

But I've got plans, internet. Plans that involve you. What would you say to a programming tutorial aimed at the non-programmer? You'd be pretty goddamn excited about it, I bet. I'll be trying to keep things simple and short, with an emphasis on doing cool internet-y things quickly. Like stuffing the ballot box of online polls. Or having your computer text-message you when concert tickets go on sale. I'm still working out the outline in my head, but I think I can get everyone equipped to work some useful HTTP/regex mojo in just 4 or 5 lessons. That'd be worth knowing, right? Right.

But tonight, I'm off to Chicago. So for now I'll just direct you to the anecdote at the end of this post from my sister.

you know you need more coffee (and you've been reading too much dooce.com) when you read the headline "man who shot pope freed" as "man who shot poop freed."

related (and very funny, via apostropher): the real reason alito should not be confirmed.