Happy Thanksgiving!

To our friends in the U.S., today is a special day when we give thanks, stuff ourselves to the gills, and sink into tryptophan comas. But mostly, we give thanks. Thank you, gentle reader, for stopping by and reading my meanderings, for caring about your work the way you do, and for keeping us safe at meetings, and making us smarter. Thank you.

And now, for the entertainment portion of the program, here's Ze Frank with his guide to surviving family holidays:

Then there's always this Wired editorial on "Thanksgiving Menu of the Gods" (too late for me. Maybe next year).