"Sometimes after an electrical storm, I can see in five dimensions.." or what this would look like if James Burke wrote it.
Cornfed's words ring only truer today, as part of the next cycle of software intends to extend existing work in allowing user programmable 4-dimensional arrays up to the previously unthinkable 5-dimensional arrays. Naturally, this becomes my testing job. Naturally, this also has only further caused my head to swim. Right now I'm sitting at the office wondering if it's my head, or the math. Such swimming led me to wander around at lunch and stumble across the finding that apparently, according to this, pirates are the new monkeys. I'm not sure what to make of that, since the whole talk like a pirate thing already went through, and I'm more than a little accustomed to the NAQT west coast bureau's use of "Yar." as a piratesque acknowledgement.
The further implication of this, to me as a Pirate fan is that pirates are the new rally monkey. That's too much of an expectation, as in past years, the Pirates really have tried to excise all reference to piracy, in their new ballpark. (This is, incidentally, one of the main reasons Derek Bell was released, as he then promptly went down to Tampa to his yacht, fulfilling the goal of all good pirates, to live on a boat and steal money.*) Plans to place a kid-friendly pirate ship in the river have been scrapped. In fact, the only mention one gets in the stadium any more tying the Pirates to the pirates is the opening animation of a pirate warning us that, among other things, "there be squalls ahead."** This brings us back to how got to see in 5 dimensions. Looks like the rain's about to hit. Yar.

In other news:
The Fantasy Head Draft. Pick your lineup of five talking heads from ESPN.

* Blatant theft of Joe's line, which may have been stolen from elsewhere.
** The thick pirate accent given to the animated pirate actually makes it sound like "there be squirrels ahead", which as we've previously established, would be even more evil and foreboding.