Once more, in the spirit of succinctness, i will attempt to convey a variety of recent experiences in a minimum of words. Today: some recent perhaps surprising developments.

• I am now a 49ers season ticket holder. My first game ... today's 23-3 shellacking at the hands of division rivals Seattle. A rude welcome to say the least.
• I pissed off someone in the mess of traffic coming out of Candlestick Park, enough that they threw ... something ... at the windshield of my poor Jetta. It had the consistency of a stuffed animal.
• I'm fairly pissed off myself, that after rescuing at least 85% of the little sisters in Bioshock i still was given the lousy ending after defeating nemesis Frank Fontaine. I'm no megalomaniacal splicer! I'm nice!
• Next up, Halo 3. I picked this up on release day around 8:45pm, although i had shown up to see the line of 100+ diehards at midnight the night before. Is being a smarmy jerkoff a requisite for working in an EB?
• I hired a chemist and had my new graduate student arrive last week. Next up ... a potential Cancer Bio PhD student doing a rotation with me, hiring another molecular biologist/biochemist, and getting another engineer to work on our mouse irradiator.
• I was informed last week i will be receiving a royalties check for my patent on said system, which has been licensed commercially. $2 or $20000? I'm guessing the former.
• I was given the "honor" of leading a Cancer Bio discussion section for first year doctoral students. Two hours a week discussing seminal papers of tumor biology. A bit daunting for an engineer, but the first session went great.
• I'm also teaching three two hour lectures in our annual molecular imaging course, up from two in years past. Starting tomorrow morning ... woo hoo. When did i become an educator?
• Is it wrong that i can only laugh when i hear that Chelsea are decrying the fans who have been directing anti-semitic remarks at interim coach Avram Grant, in expression of their disapproval of José Mourinho's departure? Can this meltdown get any better? Sure ... how about drawing 0-0 at home against Fulham and getting booed off the pitch by our own fans?
• Patton Oswalt has a great bit about seeing Jerry Maguire with his brother. When Tom Cruise makes his penultimate speech, Oswalt's sibling responded to "we live in a cynical world" by shouting a big "FUCK YOU!" at the screen. Priceless.
• My Stanford chum Andy offered me a ticket to see Cal football a few weeks back, and i was treated to a 42-12 thumping of Louisiana Tech. I wish i could make it over to Berkeley more often. It was a walk through nostalgia lane hanging out in Memorial Stadium with the college kids, except for the fact that Cal was ranked #8 in the country and won easily.
• I saw a stack of Wiis at Best Buy and was so amused by actually finding them in stock that i completely forgot the fact that i need to buy one for someone. Doy.
• I bought V an iPhone, to replace her dying, much maligned Motorola Rokr. She's loving it so far, and i've got to say i'm a bit jealous of the sleek, sexy gadget.
• And in perhaps the most shocking news, i'm typing this post from the keyboard of my new MacBook Pro. Yes, i've begun the conversion process from Microsoft to Apple. And as bizarre as this sounds coming from somone who has clung to the Gates party line for years, i'm loving it. My IDL programs just need a bit of tweaking but otherwise run fine, iPhoto suddenly seems wonderful, Automator is a brilliant little utility, and i'm excited to explore Carbon and Cocoa.