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So yesterday I bought an ocarina. I didn't mean to buy one with a Triforce on it; that was just the one they had in a decent key.

It's fun to mess around with, and came with a decent enough songbook.

I can't help but wonder, if the desktop 3D printer becomes commonplace, will ocarinas be among the first things we start printing? I think it's solid clay, though for all I know there's a reed in there.

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Skeptic icon James Randi has "come out", as it were, at the age of 81.

When I found out about Ellen Degeneres, people started to act like that was the most interesting thing about her. I'd been following her acting and stand-up career, and figured maybe it was the third most interesting thing about her, especially when she was dating Anne Heche. Now she's a talk show host, and a pretty good one, and an American Idol host. Her sexuality is becoming less relevant over time.

When I found out about George Takei, I thought that might be the 20th most interesting thing about him, as I'd read most of his autobiography.

When I found out about Stephen Fry, I thought that might be the 50th most interesting thing about him. His life and works are so varied at this point that I'd thought of him as beyond sexuality altogether.

And when I found out about James Randi, I figure this won't even make the top 100, even if you factor in the rumor that he lived with the main character in his Carlos hoax for 20 years. This is the man who made it his mission to take down spoon-bender Uri Geller and humiliated him on the Tonight Show, who all but created Penn & Teller, who consulted for Alice Cooper's stage show, and on and on and on...

I don't know what I'm really measuring here, but it's something. It might even be used to measure straight people if used hypothetically. I'll explore this idea later; it's probably nothing.