now that i am no longer a slave to dial-up

i can finally watch all of those online videos my friends have sent me. 

moving big rocks
one man demonstrates how stonehenge may have been built.

percusienfa de erik mongrain
a really cool way to make music on a guitar.

goreyesque trouble with tribbles
not a video, but it combines two of my nerdier obsessions.

ray troll and the squawking fish
and their 1988 music video "spawn till you die".  which is probably funniest if you are familiar with salmon breeding habits, or have seen the masses in ketchikan wearing troll's "spawn till you die" shirts.  (okay, so i stumbled on this one myself.)

and to update everyone on what i am doing next: today i mailed in my application and $495 cashier's check to bunac for my visa.  i said i wanted to leave at the beginning of november.  whee!