why i haven't blogged in 400 years

i've had a good excuse. okay, not really. but who has time to blog when they're...

• training for a marathon
  
• entertaining out of towners (e.g. alabamians)
  
• crashing a totally awesome conference
  
• "finishing" up a master's thesis
  
• watching videos, e.g. this or this. (this one is very important)
  
• pondering the necessity of auto-flush toilets

anyway, i'm not going to say i'm back, because i always do that and then stop blogging again. so, i'll just say i will post some more stuff soon, probably short links to cool articles. perhaps i should blog about why in the world we have all auto-flush toilets, which malfunction half the time so you have to go press the nasty button instead of using your foot to flush which is much cleaner. was there some huge un-flushed toilet epidemic that necessitated replacing every flusher in existence with a testy sensor that flushes when it's not supposed to? please help me understand this, particularly from an economic perspective.

thanks for proving skinner wrong by checking the site!