Yes. We are terribly old. It is very sad. But we are still managing to straggle up to our keyboards so all is well. We are why I get all in a snit about people who disparage internet communities. We have been together through birth and death and marriages and divorces and illness and good fortune. It is not fake people! This is not a fake relationship. I have known you over a decade, as opposed to internet disparagers whom I have only known the merest smidgen of time. Harumph.

This was pretty beautiful.

Glad for good interview, smonster.

Contrary to my impression, it's not an automatic transfer to NOLA. But the org is expanding and there seems to be a lot of mobility, so I could make it happen. A friend of mine with a MAC is going to help me with budgety stuff this weekend.

Am at current job. Have not been laid off yet. There's been no announcement of the layoffs I heard about yesterday.

I have a slightly random request--does anyone have a link to a picture of Kim and Kelly Manners? Google is giving me no love.

Thanks to Christine O'Donnell, wanking is in the news! (Wait, does "wanking" apply to women too?)

Hot-button political issue: Solo sex

Craig Gross, pastor of XXXchurch, an online ministry that deals with pornography and sexual addiction, was talking masturbation earlier this week with legendary porn star Ron Jeremy at a debate at Sonoma State University in California.

"It's just so foreign to people to hear, 'Hey, don't masturbate,'" Gross said. "But if you have lust in your eyes, you've committed adultery in your heart."

To encourage people to talk about "the 'M' word," Gross started "Operation: Save the Kittens," encouraging his followers to spread the word that, "Every time you masturbate – God kills a kitten!"

The XXXchurch Web site poses the question, "Does God really kill kittens?" The answer: "You would have to talk to Bible scholars about that, but we don't think he does. It's just a great way to think about this issue in a non-threatening way."

It's just a great way to think about this issue in a non-threatening way."

I imagine the kittens would feel differently!

Yeah, I left off the last sentence:

Non-threatening unless, of course, you're a kitten. Or a person who masturbates.

Sometimes I wish Pearl could talk, so she could comment on this sort of thing.

"Every time you masturbate – God kills a kitten!"

I'd like to see the Biblical basis for this. In my translation, there were no kittens.

Timelies!

Nilly sighting!

ETA: Whoa! There were several sentences after this that just disappeared for utterly mysterious reasons!

So, spray-on clothes in a can. They're saying this will go on sale in the UK next year.

Amazing spray-on shirt you can take off, wash, reuse (NSFW)

Only moderately NSFW.

What if instead of trying to pick between different shirts in the morning, you reached for a spray can instead? Some scientists at the Imperial College London have made it a reality, using a cocktail of cotton, polyester, plastic and solvents.

Amazingly, the material peels away from one's skin as it dries, and at that point you can even take it off and run it through the washer to use again. The downside? It looks like someone went nuts with some silly string — you'll be turning heads, but not in a good way.

The spray-on shirt is the result of 10 years of researchers, and the scientists behind the project hope it'll become a viable product. Check it out in the video below, though be forewarned, this spray-on clothing is tested on a pretty lady.