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

My current top ten favorite TV shows

No particular order:

• The Office
  
• Heroes
  
• Prison Break
  
• Smallville
  
• 30 Rock
  
• House
  
• It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  
• 24
  
• The O.C.
  
• Veronica Mars