A brain teaser to kick off your Friday blog viewing: If a tree falls in Antarctica, was it really a tree to begin with? (See answer below)

In the news...
A new feature to the Bayard blog is now available to the right, under the links portion. Introducing the all-new, all-thrilling, Bayard Calendar!!!! By just clicking on that link you have access to the schedules of people who have chosen to use this feat of Web technology. No more, "Is Bill in Minnesota today?" or "When's Kathleen back from NY?" because the answers to your queries are right there! If you want to have modification access to the calendar, please e-mail Brad and I'll give you the double-secret access.

Obviously Sue's out today, so I have usurped her blog authority to bring you all this message from the resistance: Alison is out today too, she's sick. Sue will be back on Monday.
Viva Bayard!

Kathleen will be in NY on Monday, and will return on Tuesday.

And that's all the news that's fit to print.

Brain teaser answer: What? Are you crazy? NO!!

Your real Friday trivia: Since everyone but Janice ignored my trivia from two weeks ago, I am reprinting it because it is now that much more germane.

I'm a big fan of the Olympics, ergo, I'm very excited that it's about that time again. Turin, Italy is preparing to host the 2006 Winter games next month. This is the second time Italy has hosted the Winter games. What nation has hosted the WINTER Olympics the most times? Bonus query: Where will the next SUMMER games be played?

Thought for the day: "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." ~ Will Rogers