me - a shark could bite a whale, but not kill it probably

We have YouTube evidence that a Killer Whale bitch slaps and kills a Great White Shark with minimal effort.

the animal wars is TOTALLY bon's doing.

I feel bad now for completely screwing up his sense of scale. I should get the Planet Earth DVDs or something for his next birthday.

Why are you in NY, Lee?

Stop over on the way to Maine.

eta: Yay on the condo!

All your Scola (and his neighbor's internet) are belong to me!

(and I am jealous)

Mac makes me laugh. Introduce the polar bear to his debate.

The introduction of the concept homosexual made me think. I don't really know when I became aware of it. I know I had strong suspicions about a highschool cohort (bi) but I grew up with a buncha hippies in a rather conservative area. So within the confines of our annual gathering, I knew there were same-sex couples, but I didn't really assign a name or type or anything remarkable or not (huh, that's kind of a blessing, isn't it? Lack of awareness that there was anything that might be seen as unusual?) to them. I don't think it was until college that I really understood it was a Thing, or..not a thing. A Thing to society. I'm sure part of it was my own awareness of being a sexual creature within society.

I moved my bed and vacuumed up years worth of Devi's hiding. Good lord. Five kittens. It took an hour or more to suck up from under a double bed. And 3/4 was under containers, so that means 5 kittens in 1/4 a double!

I envy you Roomba people. I couldn't have a Roomba unless they come out with the Sir Edmund Hilary model.

Oh and brenda? Congrats!

My parents have a roomba. It was purchased for novelty value, but has proved useful cleaning around litterboxes. And to crack me up when dad refers to it as "nursing" when it is recharging (its light pulses like a mac does.)

I moved my bed and vacuumed up years worth of Devi's hiding.

When I get my new mattress delivered next week, I'm going to make sure I prop the old mattress next to the bedframe and vacumn underneath before they arrive with the new one. It'll only have 14 months of cat hair, etc., under there, but definitely needing a vacumning.

In dinner news, that poor boy was mmmm so good, even though I did end up with some butter dripping on my shirt and had my brother tell me there was some still on my chin after I thought I wiped it clean. And it was fun chatting with him and my stepmom (who is normally very quiet when she's not chatting with her own family--I'm being slightly bitchy here, but it's true!), and catching up on his family stories, including stuff about his in-laws.

I have to admit, I'm very envious of him and my SIL--as public servants (he's a parole officer, she's a teacher), they're both union members and have really good retirement packages waiting for them to reach 25 years of service, which will happen within a matter of 2 1/2 years for him (he'll be 48 when he retires), and 7 years for her (she'll be 53). I'll be lucky if I can afford to retire when I reach 70.

I can't really imagine what a Roomba would do in my environment. Stroke being top of the list. I may have to consider a swarm of Roomba to have a chance of survival.

(huh, that's kind of a blessing, isn't it? Lack of awareness that there was anything that might be seen as unusual?)

I think that is where I came from. My family and neighborhood included same sex couples so I didn't know some people thought it odd until I was an adult. Same thing with racial bigotry. I didn't really know it existed until I was an adult. Ah, for the ignorance of youth.

Same thing with racial bigotry. I didn't really know it existed until I was an adult. Ah, for the ignorance of youth.

Sophmore year in High School I took endless shit because we were studying Merchant of Venice and I was bewildered... having never heard of the sterotype of Jews being cheap. (mostly from Jewish classmates, interestingly enough)