News You Can Bruise for 2003 January 7

1. The mysterious Sean Neakums
2. Me and Pete Peterson II showing off our hopelessly out-of-date driver's licenses.
3. The game of Settlers of Catan

Anecdote: during the game of Settlers, Pete got a harbor that gave him two-for-one trades for sheep. The conceit throughout the game was that this was not a harbor for trading sheep for other things, but an offshore sheep rendering plant which produced sheep-fat brick, wooly wood, sheepwheat, and decidedly inferior sheepbone ore.