It's nearly my six-month anniversary at Netflix, which means that i've been working graveyard shift for 21 weeks.  Despite a few hiccups along the way, sleeping during the day hasn't been too bad; i've settled into taking a melatonin+valerian capsule and half a Benadryl before sleep (occasionally washed down with hot chocolate instead of water).  I usually hit the sack soon after i see Kim off to work in the morning, so that i can be awake by the time she gets home.  On Friday, i eschew the sleeping aids and just settle into a four-hour sleep period; when i wake up, i can attend one of our team meetings in the afternoon, and then proceed with having a normal weekend (although lately my sleep has been cut short at night, so i've been taking a full Benadryl on Friday nights).  On Sunday evenings, i have another 4-hour nap, and upon waking put out the trash and then head to work.

At times i feel a little uncomfortable about the pill-taking, but given that this isn't going to last forever, i'll keep it up for now.

• Warren Ellis brings us a disturbing answer to a troubling question.
• iayork could've been the coolest Dad ever.
• E. Howard Hunt died three months ago, and talked about LBJ's involvement in the assassination of JFK.
• "I have a great idea.  Let's rebuild the Internet from scratch!"
• Baseball might be getting rid of its longest-used performance enhancer, but in the meantime, the one undetectable performance enhancer might not be all that enhancing.
• Fox News never fails to disappoint: "Could [Seung-Hui] Cho have been possessed by the Devil? Could that explain the massacre at Virginia Tech?"
• The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has decided that the bit in the Second Amendment about "a well-regulated militia" was just fluff.  This is a complicated one, because i don't disagree with the decision, but i'm not crazy about the way they got there.  I wonder about how laws like Minnesota's Personal Protection Act can help Americans be responsible gun owners, and what the effect of these laws are (and, Seth, if you happen to be reading this, you're still a douche).
• This one's a real corker: Jundallah, a wholly owned subsidiary of Al-Qaeda, has been receiving carefully funnelled financial support from the United States and is fighting the Iranian government.  Follow all the links.  You know what?  Nothing surprises me anymore.  All of my predictions have come true.  At least we have the liberal media hammering the ... oh, wait, a Blue Angel crashed.  Sorry, where were we?

From Bawls' page on guaraná:

The Guarana berry contains a naturally-occurring form of caffeine which is 2.5 times stronger than the caffeine found in coffee, tea, and soft drinks.

How is one form of caffeine 2.5 times stronger than another form of caffeine?