Remember pogs?  And Tamagotchis?  Though I can’t remember if I had a Yoda pog, I definitely was the caretaker of a Yoda Tamagotchi, which is pretty much cheating since he lived for 900 years and could never really die.  Yup, I’ve been a victim of a few embarrassing fads in my time.  Here’s hoping my latest dip into fadville doesn’t last another 900 years:

Thanks to this Atlantic island, people all over the world are stuck.  The Old Continent is now the Lost Continent because of “first bankrupt, then erupt” Iceland. Great.

Me being me, I had to join in, so here I am, still Stateside.  This week I’ll be writing from where I spent most my childhood and where Obama now reigns, the old swamp that is Washington, DC.

So the next few days I’ll sit smug at the fact that I’m part of a force majeure, wonder who names anything Eyjafjallajökull and will be doing my best to at least try to pronounce the reason why I’m stuck so far from Technotown.  May the force be with me.

image: thx.