My current random five people that aid in steganography

Haha right?

No particular order:

• Horticulturalists
  
• thomas Edison (his museum is not open to the public)
  
• Little people (i'm not sure i understand the difference between little and short)
  
• Libertarians
  
• Orphans

My current top five favorite movies of 2007

No particular order:

• Hot Fuzz
  
• Hot Fuzz
  
• Hot Fuzz
  
• Blades of Glory
  
• HOT FUZZ

Is there anyone out there who hasn't seen Hot Fuzz yet? I can't justify seeing movies by myself, so I'm begging for an excuse to go see it again. 9010235 CALL ME.

My current top fourteen favorite states I went to for Spring Break

From first to worst:

• Colorado - I don't really need a reason. Okay my reason is ice cube kisses
  
• Loiusiana - I was not judged in this state
  
• Iowa - Herbert Hoover, scenic overlooks, AND free wireless at every rest area! Iowa has its act together
  
• Oklahoma - Awesome hilly driving/overlooks after frickin Kansas
  
• Tennessee - I played "Walkin in Memphis" when I entered the state, and it had almost finished by the time I left
  
• Texas - Wildflowers I guess? Way to be totally average, Texas
  
• Arkansas - I honestly don't remember being in this state. By the time I looked at a map, I was in Missouri
  
• Missouri - Okay I have to admit, I basically slept through this leg of the trip. Must've been a good nap though
  
• Nebraska - Lame at the beginning, more interesting by the end, once you start going up and up
  
• Illinois - What seems like such a short state going west suddenly becomes a 8 hour drive in the dark when driving north
  
• Mississippi - Somehow felt more ghetto than New Orleans
  
• Kansas - Lame all day. Except Elkhorn Creek
  
• Wyoming - Seriously, why am I not in Colorado yet
  
• Indiana - Gary

John Vandermolen's current top five favorite types of insurance

No particular order:

• Car
  
• Fire
  
• Water
  
• Earth
  
• Heart

My current top five favorite things that are round

No particular order:

• Balloons
  
• Santa
  
• Cheese
  
• Smiles on rescued orphans
  
• Pizza

So it turns out I don't know how to spell.

:(

My current top five favorite Kelly Clarkson songs and the person that instantly comes to mind when I hear them

No particular order:

• Walk Away - Emily Van Dyke
  
• Because of You - Ariel Bordewyk
  
• A Moment Like This - Sideshow Bob
  
• Behind These Hazel Eyes - Suzanne Winter
  
• Since U Been Gone - John Vandermolen

Hint: The meaning of the lyrics has nothing to do with the associations.

My current top five favorite Christmas carols

No particular order:

• The First Noel
  
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
  
• Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  
• O Holy Night
  
• While by my Sheep (baaaaaa)

I don't know if Rudolf counts as a Christmas carol.

Also, the local easy listening station has been all Christmas for a while. And I don't think I've heard a single religious song in that entire time. This makes me upset. If I hear "Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland" or "Chestnuts Roasting" one more time, I will get even more upset but do nothing about it except whine more.

My current top five favorite philosophers

Plato? Aristotle? Socrates?

Morons.

No particular order:

• Isaac Newton
  
• Bertrand Russell
  
• John Locke
  
• Kurt Gödel
  
• René Descartes

Yes I realize that they're pretty much all mathematicians or logicians. Sorry, that's who I like. The only philosophy classes I took in school were Philosophy 101 and The Philosophy of Mathematics.

Also, check out my obvious mastery of diacritical marks in ascii. The keystroke combination for ö in Windows is Alt+0246. That took me a bit of trial and error. At home on the Mac it probably would've been something simple like option+o.

My current top five favorite vegetables

No particular order:

• Mr. Lunt
  
• Lettuce
  
• Dandelions
  
• Terry Schiavo
  
• Sweet Corn

This list was pretty hard because I don't really like vegetables in general.

Did you know that depending on how it is harvested, corn can either be a vegetable or a grain? It's a vegetable when you eat the kernels and they're still soft and juicy. But it's a grain when you let it dry out, then mash it up or something.

For some reason the supreme court had to decide whether tomatoes were fruits or vegetables (Nix v Hedden for you fact checkers). They went with vegetables. That doesn't really matter though because I don't like tomatoes, so they're not on the list.

Also seriously dandelions are vegetables. I guess people put them in salads? How many more fun facts would you like today?

My current top five favorite objects that were once considered planets but are not anymore

No particular order:

• Ceres
  
• The Moon
  
• Europa
  
• Titan
  
• The Sun