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Merry Christmas!
A few days late perhaps, but it's better late than never. I spent Christmas this year with Kara's family in LA. Which when one thinks of Southern California, one would imagine warm sun and clear skies. Instead it was colder there than it was in Austin, and rained half the time. But it was still a fun trip, and I got to eat some absolutly amazing cupcakes from Sprinkles, and see some great art at the Ghetty.
If you're not ready for the year to be quite over, you'll get a whole extra second to enjoy it. Make it count!
Here's a list of things you thought were true but actually aren't. Like that bats actually do have eyes, or that Pong was not the first videogame, or that Washington did not have wooden teeth.
One thing that is true though, is that a text message costs more than transmitting data from the Hubble telescope. Texts costs virtually nothing for a phone company to support, but they count on customers not knowing that in order to charge the 20 cents a text that they do. There's a few lawsuits alleging price fixing since there are no cheap texting providers out there. I guess it's just capitalism at it's finest, if people are willing to pay it, then they'll charge it. The movie theater does charge like $4 for 10 cents worth of Coke after all.
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