After spending the last hour or so reading about wavelet compression, I feel the urge to begin a long post about signal theory, integer lifting, quantization and zero trees. Fortunately for you, it's late and the topic hasn't really settled in my mind yet. Maybe tomorrow -- so watch out!

As way of comparison, my beard continues to expand. Not quite as impressive as some, perhaps, but I'm quite pleased. Almost smug.

Which I suppose will make it all the more tragic when I destroy it in two days. I'm thinking arc welder, though perhaps a blowtorch will be a manly enough method.