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A long time ago (roughly eleven months ago), I moved to San Francisco with three friends from high school. The usual post-moving chores followed, including setting up cable TV and internet through Comcast. At the time, Comcast had a deal going where you could get HBO for free for three months but as luck would have it, we never got around to canceling it.

Normally I’d think that subscribing to a premium television channel would be a bit on the excessive side, but with HBO comes some real comic genius: Flight of the Conchords.

Last week’s episode (”Bowie”) was pretty amazing. Here’s a clip (thanks, HBO):

Watch. I think this man should teach me to cook.

So I was in line at Safeway the other day and as usual, I decided to peruse the fine selection of dumbed-down reading materials available at the cash register. Paging through the latest issue of Newsweek, I stumbled upon an editorial entitled “The Sad Fate of the Comma” (link). I, for one, am a big fan of the comma and probably employ it too frequently. And much like Mr. Samuelson points out, the majority of its usage is probably by accident.

Perhaps one day the comma will acquire the much-maligned status of the semicolon but until then, I’ll do my very best to include an excessive number of commas in my rants posts.

In other news, I’m currently sitting at Coffee to the People where one can find free wifi, decent coffee and way too much cream cheese applied to otherwise-tasty bagels. Living in the Sunset means that the only coffee shops I have the distinct pleasure of visiting aren’t particularly San Francisco-y (Starbucks, Pete’s) so this is a nice change of pace. Of course, having the Shins playing a little too loud might hamper my ability to review physics for the impending MCAT (August 16th!) but for the time being, I’m happy to immerse myself in a setting other than the UCSF library.