I am enjoying working from home. Especially enjoying mostly not-working from home, as I've been doing the past couple of days!

Especially enjoying mostly not-working from home, as I've been doing the past couple of days!

AIFG!

Except it won't be in a couple weeks, if I keep this up. The more monstrously unreasonable the deadline, the more my lizard brain says, fuck 'em.

My lizard brain should probably not be in charge here.

French/music quesion?

What does "Lo Boob Oscillator" mean in English? (It's the title of a Stereolab song.)

What does "Lo Boob Oscillator" mean in English? (It's the title of a Stereolab song.)

I wonder if that's the Stereolab equivalent of having your tit in the wringer.

I don't know if I'm in the woodshed for rolling into work a little after 10, considering that I was here until 8 last night.

I'm getting stuff done, but it's at the speed of molasses.

The Rotating Tit? (I obviously know nothing about French!)

My favorite French song title is "Ta Bouche Est Tabu" by Poi Dog Pondering. It makes a great sort-of palindrome, in that they constantly switch between saying "Ta bouche est tabu" (your kiss is taboo) to "Tabu est ta bouche."

Well, that's a relief - Canadian commemorative quarters definitely not nanotech spy devices, according to Pentagon.

Espionage warnings from the Defence Department caused an international sensation a few years ago over reports of mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters, until they were debunked.

The culprit turned out to be a commemorative quarter in Canada. But at the height of the mystery, senior Pentagon officials speculated whether Canadians were involved in the spy caper.

"I don't think it is an issue of the Canadians being the bad guys," the Pentagon's counterintelligence chief wrote in an exchange of emails obtained this week by The Associated Press, "but then again, who knows."

Orangutan takes photos, shares them on Facebook

Yes, but does it have any idea what the fuck it's doing?

She's like the Ashton Kutcher of the ape world: An orangutan in the Vienna Zoo now has a Facebook fan page to showcase the photos she takes with a digital camera. The orangutan, named Nonja, uses a Samsung ST 1000 point-and-shoot that automatically uploads the photos.

When this post was published, Nonja had over 9,000 "fans" subscribed to her page.

But there's a catch: Coverage of the camera-toting ape in the U.K.'s Daily Mail explains that the camera has been modified to dispense a raisin whenever the shutter button is pushed. So Nonja is evidently more interested in tasty treats than in artistic endeavors.

The non-orangutan version of the Samsung ST 1000 was released this summer (though not in the U.S.) and is equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

See, it's just posting pictures to Facebook to get raisins!

Except it won't be in a couple weeks, if I keep this up. The more monstrously unreasonable the deadline, the more my lizard brain says, fuck 'em.

Oh yeah, I hear that. The one saving grace I have is that I keep the hard deadline at least a half-day ahead in my head.

Ooh. I think this wins at Headline o' the Day:

Jesus Christ dumped from jury pool for disruption

A Birmingham woman who changed her name to Jesus Christ turned up for jury duty and was unsurprisingly crazy. This series of events lead to the best Christmas-time headline we've ever seen.