1. The Canadians don't have the Olympic Theme music that we Americans do! I thought John Williams thunderous overture was a worldwide symbol of the games, but it turns out that only a few countries recognize it as even being associated with the Olympic movement. Astounding!

2. Exam week is hard. Usually finals comprise the easiest week in school; this well-known fact dates back to undergrad days. This go-round, though, is slammed with MTrek stuff and Habitat (heretofore known as HFH) stuff and MAP stuff, not to mention laundering and packing for Winter Pizzark.

3. Speaking of undergraduate doings, I knew my first person in the WSJ today! Holy smackers, an above-the-fold reference to a college professor endeared only by his email address (which happens to be his initials, NJG). Sadly this was in the Personal Journal so there was no Neil-icious dot photo and he was in for being stranded at an airport during the blizzards last week, not something exciting like outrageous executive compensation, white collar crime, or being the chief agent representing the incumbent of a leveraged buyout tender.

4. An Arabic company is trying to buy up US ports! Wait, what? Didn't we talk about that on Friday? NO! I found out this morning that that post was lost by a substandard wireless connection. Anyway, Dubai Ports World is buying the controlling stake in six major ports (New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia) via their buyout of P&O Lines. The sheik is too smart for us; his management of Dubai's capital is brilliant and he's very successfully posturing his little emirate to be the ultimate convergence of city-state, trading nation, tourist destination, and international corporation. Well, well played Mssr. al Maktoum.