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Today's the big day. I wonder how it's all going to go down. I guess I'll see soon enough. I've got mixed feelings about it. I know it's got to be done, but I feel badly about her situation.

Poop in the Pool - The Fecal Accident Response Team would make a great subject for a new crime investigation television series. Sample dialogue: "A diarrheal fecal accident is a higher risk event than a formed stool accident."

Germ Inactivation Time for Chlorinated Water*

Germ	Time
E. coli O157:H7 Bacterium	Less than 1 minute
Hepatitis A Virus	about 16 minutes
Giardia Parasite	about 45 minutes
Cryptosporidium Parasite	about 9600 minutes (6.7 days)
* 1ppm (1mg/L) chlorine at pH 7.5 and 77°F (25°C)

My Vamp is 2 pints away from having 10000. "You have drunk 9998 pints of blood. Your rank is Legendary - next rank at 10000 pints." You are sire to 110 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (7627 pints), MissV (3142 pints), Liliana (2784 pints), gilbella (1410 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), Morgoth (1059 pints), Nathanael (816 pints), night_flyer (752 pints), wchmum (719 pints), phenrill (406 pints) Care to join us? Any of my brood that wishes to come along and go on a massive tear Halloween week through the city, feel free to contact me in comments, and we can organize a mob.

Meanwhile, a clue - The barman says "The closest shop to here is Scrollmania, right by Emerald and 95th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."

The Bangkok Forensics Museum: Tattoos. (not for the squeamish)

Alana's compleat diagram of strange persons

ADVENTURES WITH AN ICE PICK: a short history of lobotomy

A scientist at Australia's Melbourne Museum revealed that he had captured and photographed the male of the world’s most sexually unequal species. When a male blanket octopus (3/4 of an inch long) mates with the female (6 feet long), it uses a special extension arm to transfer sperm from its penis, and then dies. Norman pointed out that females, which may weigh 10,000 times more than males, are typically found with several such extension arms lodged inside them.

Three entries I made on Usenet from about a decade ago, Via my FAU account. Topics are: Beakmans World (I've since met Paul Zaloom, a nice guy, though Bill Nye had more staying power and got better writing and projects over time.) Doc Savage, and Blood bowl. That's a pretty good synopsis of what I was into at the time.

Some of my old taglines - ( Read more... )

Some other ASCII movies too.. The Croc Hunter is especially good.


current mood: Karate Monkey
current music: Mario Twins - Shiggity Shiggity Shwa

Bigfoot / spine / work / chimp-child

I need surgery, 1 day in the hospital, 4 weeks PT and it should be all good. Following up at the regular doc, but as it stands, I need 2 ruptured disks, and 1 herniated disk taken care of. it'll be much like the one I had about a decade ago, only nobody will bring me a Usagi Yojimbo action figure this time, I imagine. Rick (the one that looked like Willie from "v") brought me one last time, and I really dug that bushido bunny.

Prop2 took her departure better than the gals at work did. I think this is a good thing... but I changed all the email/network/ remote access/ etc passwords today. I was trapped there until about 6:30 tonight... but I guess that makes up for me being late due to the doc's. I'm officially the Director of Operations now. Prop was very understanding, and I imagine she saw it coming. she offered to help me wherever she could, and though I don’t imagine I'll run into many bumps, it was very kind of her to offer, given the circumstances. I hope she finds a good gig, and swiftly.

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Ben Stein *creamed* the debate on Tough Crowd tonight.. three stand up comics, Colin Quinn and probably one of the brightest political and legal minds in the entertainment industry. I really admire his power over words and ideas, even if I don't agree with many of his beliefs. (I have Nixon and Kissenger issues.)

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Police expert claims Bigfoot 'proof' "A forensic expert in the US believes he has some of the strongest evidence yet that the Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, creature exists." ( Read more... )

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Herbal Web Sites Not Always Honest - "A new survey has found half of all Internet marketers of herbal products have violated federal law by making false claims or omitting legally required disclaimers and medical warnings. The findings suggest many consumers are vulnerable to purchasing substandard or potentially dangerous products by patronizing the illegal sites." ( Read more... )

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Sean Cullen - the chimp and the woman

There was an old woman who lived alone
No one called her on the telephone
She went into the woods one day
Found a young chimp, who had gone astray
She took that little primate home
So she wouldn't have to be alone

They spent the winter together
Warm in their love, despite the harshness of the winter weather
The chimp and the woman
Living together in a house of stone
The chimp and the woman
They made that house a home

The chimp and the woman were happy there
The chimp was safe; the woman had found a friend
But when the townsfolk heard of this bizarre affair
They said how could she love a creature that is covered with hair?
They came with axes and torches
They burnt the front and back porches
They kicked in the door
Shouting "Death to the chimp-loving whore!"

But she was gone; no one knew where they went
Years went by, the world spun around
Then one day a strange creature walked into town
It came in from the wild
It was a half human half chimp hybrid child
And it said:
I am the chimpy child, on whom fortune has smiled
If we could live in peace, then all hatred would cease
If we could live with love, with blessings from up above
If we could just hold hands, then maybe we'd understand

And the people, the people...
They beat him to death with a rock.