The Police to reunite for Grammy Awards — SFGate/AP

The Police will reunite to perform at this year’s Grammys ceremony, the Recording Academy announced Tuesday.

The award-winning group, which won five Grammys and turned out hits such as “Roxanne” and “Every Breath You Take,” will open the event — 23 years after breaking up amid internal conflict.

Rumor has it that they will tour after this performance. I would definitely go.

Time: 3:35
Battery life remaining: ~30 minutes
Posted with Vagablog from the Treo, laptop asleep.

Jury room manager said the court would want 60 people shortly. Judge just came in and said ALL 31 cases on today’s docket settled! He’s explaining that the presence of potential jurors impels both sides to settle because it’s always easier than a trial.

So now I’m leaving.

Time: 2:34
Battery life remaining: 1:32

At 1:00 the staffer running the jury assembly room told us that we might be called into a courtroom around 3:00 but that nothing would happen before 2:30 at the earliest. There are probably 100 or so people in here, most reading books but more than a few have laptops. The room also features a desk in one corner with four desktop machines; I’m sure examining the Internet Explorer history and cache would be most instructive, but I’m not bothering.

For a long time, nothing continued to happen.
– paraphrased from Douglas Adams

Got a summons to jury duty, to report today at 12:45 in South San Francisco. Of course the Redwood City complex would be much better for me–ten minutes away instead of 35–but due to some bullshit bureaucratic nonsense they can’t assign people to the court closest to where they live.

Arrived 30 minutes early (good planning) and remembered to leave my Leatherman in the car. At the security checkpoint I had to take off my belt, but I could leave my boots on. Found the jury assembly room and woke up the machine to find that YES, the San Mateo County court system is at least in the 21st century in this regard–open wireless access point.

So now I’m hanging out in the jury assembly room listening to people blabbing on the cellphones. I of course set the Treo to silent mode, being the kind and considerate person that I am.

More later if anything interesting happens.

Question 1: You open a new bag of Lay’s Salt & Vinegar chips and help yourself to a few. Do you then:

1. Apply a bag clip or roll up the top of the bag
2. Leave the bag wide open, perched on the edge of the shelf waiting to fall and empty itself

Question 2: You have a sweet tooth so you go looking for some cookies. You find two packages of Keebler Fudge Shoppe® Fudge Stripes; one open and one still sealed. Do you:

1. Take a few from the open package
2. Open the new package

Question 3: You dig down in a box of Triscuits and discover that you’ve eaten the last one; the box is now empty. Do you now:

1. Toss the box in the cardboard recycling bin after removing the interior plastic bag
2. Leave the open, empty box on the shelf for the next person

Question 4: It’s delivery day, and that means a new bag of Fun-Size candy bars. Do you:

1. Enjoy one or two, perhaps even one of each variety
2. Stuff as many as possible into your mouth, your pockets and your jacket