Merry Christmas from a can goes viral

After languishing for almost one year with fewer than twenty views, my video of a Diet Coke can saying "Merry Christmas" has suddenly gone viral on youtube (250,000+ views and counting):

Added later: OK—it's not quite viral—it's just on the YouTube "featured videos" page. There are over 1500 comments, with many proposing conspiracy theories (electronic device in can, sound played from hidden speaker, etc).

But there's no trickery involved: it's just a simple, run-of-the-mill talking can.

Thomas Little Heath vs the Archimedes Codex

Having finished The Archimedes Codex and curious to read more on the subject, I bought T. L. Heath's 1897 book The Works of Archimedes (Dover paperback), and added it to the bathroom bookstack to ensure a periodic look-through.

The more I flip through the Heath, the more I think—uh—what exactly was new about the Archimedes Codex? Not so very much, it seems to me.

I'm no expert, but I'd recommended Heath's book before the Archimedes Codex. He must have put one hell of a lot of effort into that book!

Japanese notebook covers

Cole and I went to Daiso in the San Antonio road shopping center, where pretty much everything costs $1 or $1.50.

I bought a couple of notebooks.

Written on the outside of #1:

BILLIARDS. Welcome to the country of the fruit. What do you see in this fruit?

Written on #2, under "notesbog":

Have you ever been to Scandinavia? There you'll see a lot of beautiful scenery and people living in lifestyles surrounded by their favorite things.