A hamster-themed hotel in Nantes, France, offers rooms and layouts inspired by hamster-cages. Rooms have hamster wheels, the food is all grains and seeds, the water comes out of hamster bottles, etc.

The scary thing is that someone, somewhere is reading this and thinking "FINALLY!!"

AIFG!

The scary thing is that someone, somewhere is reading this and thinking "FINALLY!!"

AIFG

The funniest thing about seeing that on Countdown yesterday was seeing KO gently broach the topic of furries. "Um, I think some of the local-news coverage , um, misses the point of this one."

KO gently broach the topic of furries

The fact that KO even knows about furries (and doesn't make fun of them) makes me like him even more.

Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth Extinction

I only posted this because "Dung Fungus" would be an awesome band name....

There was a little mockage, but just a touch, zenkitty. What he said was like "Monty Python sketches aside, the local news coverage misses the point if they treat this as a joke...the fact is there are consenting adults that like to take other consenting adults on the big hamster wheel..." God, I about died. But he didn't blush, so I guess it was a *little* funny. It's so hot when he gets all flustered, like by Musto.

Thus I became the designated driver like everywhere.

Awww, I knew it. Gud was Lloyd Dobler.

Like Zen, the drinking age was 18 when I was growing up so it was nothing to go into a 7-11 and buy beer or wine when we were 16.

Lots of drinking and pot in high school. There were a fair number of heavy pot smokers in Junior High, and Emmett reports that's also so in his Middle School.

The only drug I abused was speed, and that was in college and that was to stay up all night to write papers.

Speed has kind of a skeezy, white trash drug reputation but I loved taking it and reading Nietzsche. I liked the way it came on, like prickly fingers spreading over your brain and then suddenly your synapses were firing smooth and fast. So much easier on the body than caffeine.

But I've only done it once recreationally, which was going out dancing with my friend in NYC and we planned on being out until the wee hours.

Canadian scientists invent freeze ray:

Canadian boffins say they have developed a fearsome paralysis ray technology which caused test animals zapped with it to "turn blue and become paralysed". The effect is claimed to be "reversible", but is often fatal.

Chemistry prof Neil Branda and his colleagues achieved their startling effects by drugging their test animals with a fearsome ultraviolet-sensitive concoction, which they refer to as a "Photocontrolled Molecular Switch" - effectively a deadly remotely-activated poison.

Having stuffed their victims with this terrifying compound, the boffins then "irradiated" them with a particular wavelength of ultraviolet rays. This tripped the UV-sensitive "switch" compound, causing instant flaccidity and empurplement.

Branda and his pals then tried out the reversibility part of the kit, zapping the creatures with a different ray intended to turn off the switch and return to them control of their own bodies.

This didn't work nearly as well. "Many [of the test subjects] lived through the paralyze-unparalyze cycle", report the boffins.

Speed makes me grind my teeth. I mean, hypothetically. If I were to do speed.

Still, I have fond memories of a New Years Eve Cramps show in San Francisco....