I'm going to play Texas Hold 'Em for the first time tonight with some of my fellow grad students. It's amazing to me that this "sport" has taken off like it has to the point that it's aired on television. I thought pool on television was bad. This must be a fun thing to do, but to watch others do it? Don't get it.

I'm studiously avoiding doing a paper that's due next week. Actually, there are two due at different times next week. Bad student, bad.

Interesting thing that ET says in her comments. Jack the Ripper could have been a woman. Even Conan Doyle posited that. Actually, he said that maybe the killer dressed as a woman to avoid suspicion. Myself, I tend to agree with Donald Rumbelow. He wrote in his Casebook of Jack the Ripper that when we all get to Heaven and everyone interested in the case is standing around, God will tell Jack the Ripper to come forward. This guy will step forward and everyone will say, "Who?"