Now that's a big prime number: 2^13,466,917 -1.
Thanks to AEB for feeding me this BBC link ASAP.

Last night Arah and I went to the Cedar Cultural Center to see Tony Rice, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, and Todd Phillips perform various bluegrass selections.
Serious pickin' and grinnin' was had by all.
See these guys when they come to your town.

I also had a nightmare of a time upgrading my EverQuest client, but more on that later...

Earlier in the weekend, on Saturday, our friend Aldo was singing with the 107-year-old Apollo Male Chorus.
This was a very, very Lutheran sort of holiday concert.
Except for the spirituals they sang... While these songs were technically excellent, it's always disconcerting to see only white men (most with silver hair) singing plantation songs in Pidgin English.

Around town, Dara teaches us how to have fun with wine, already.
You will not be intimidated. Nor will you snobbify.
We never have these problems with beer though, do we?

How does the HT work with a front or back basket?
This thing is only going to work if people can put cargo on it.

Doing the IBS network roundup of local television news yields some interesting stories:

Police in Boulder, Colorado used paintball guns with pepper spray ammunition for crowd control.
I'm all for police using non-lethal weapons, but at 350 feet per second, a paintball isn't just going to sting your eye.
If it's a direct hit, it could permanently damage your vision.
Hopefully the cops know not to shoot for the head...
Then again, non-lethal isn't the same as non-injurious.

Most Clevelanders think that UPS goofed when it fired a 28-year employee for a non-standard display of patriotism.
The fact that the UPS-authorized display was incorrectly-designed with the flag backwards has in no way mitigated this judgement.