Totally unrelated information:

1. Wallet bulging with gift cards to places you’ve never heard of, restaurants you’d never dine in, clothing stores you’ve grown out of? No need to wonder if you could list them on ebay or regift them without Great Aunt Thelma finding out. Go to GiftCardRescue. Here’s the blurb from their site: “Exchange or swap your gift card for another card. You can also sell your gift card to us for cash, or buy discounted gift cards with free shipping.”

2. If you want the inside scoop on  Taliban movements, try using Viagra. [Okay, perhaps I should have rephrased that. . .] The Washington Post reported that after being offered four Viagra pills by the CIA, a 60-something Afghan chieftain blabbed within four days. That’s one day for each pill. Wonder what the women are going to start asking for if this incentive continues. . .

3. Geek, dork, and nerd are not synonymous. If you already knew that, then you’re a geek. Here’s other defining characteristics according to Matt Blum, GeekDad contributor and software engineer:

• Geeks have wives
• Nerds “live in their parents’ basements until they’re 45″
• Having used drugs and played sports in high school disqualifies you from nerd-dom
• “A geek is someone who has the knowledge of the geeky type stuff and has social graces,” Blum said. “A nerd is someone who has the knowledge but not the social graces and a dork is someone who has neither.”
• Geeks not only know references from Star Trek, comic books, and “Dungeons and Dragons,” they use them…correctly.
• Obama, says Blum, may be our first geek-in-chief. Bush? Nah. “Too much a cheerleader.” Clinton?  Nope. “Too wonky.”

4. And, finally, if you’re suffering from anorexia of the eyelashes, despair no more. The FDA just approved a drug to increase the thickness and fullness of your eyelashes. “Latisse fulfills a significant and previously unmet need in the medical aesthetic marketplace with a product approved by the FDA that increases the growth of eyelashes, making them longer, thicker and darker,” said Dr. Scott Whitcup, Allergan’s executive vice president of research and development, in a statement.

One can only pray the CIA does not confuse this new medication with what it’s dispensing to Afghan chieftains (see #2 above).

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6

I Am Second.

With thanks to Marcus Goodyear.