I assume this is only if you have "Your status, photos, and posts" in privacy settings set to "friends of friends" or "everyone", right? Right?!?

Sure as heck better be. We can test this. I can unfriend you. Then you send me a friend request. Before accepting it, i with my "friends only" filter will post a test message. Wanna play?

Coyote in the Loop probably on rat patrol

A coyote loping along the South Loop streets this morning was probably at his job searching out rodents, according to city animal welfare officials.

A video shot overnight shows the coyote running down State Street as cars and a moving truck pass by.

Brad Block, a supervisor for the Chicago Commission on Animal Care and Control, said the animal has the run of the Loop to help deal with rats and mice. He said no one has called today to complain.

Wanna play?

Hey Warriors... come out and play!

Happy Birthday Sumi.

Happy Birthday, sumi!

Happy Birthday, sumi!

I am worried about one more source of radiation. I'd opt for the groping rather than the scanner.

I am pretty eh on the groping. Don't like the idea of more random radiation.

So my question(s) is: Is her agressive not-taking-a-hint e-mail weird? And should I answer it?

I think it's overly aggressive and you can either delete it or answer VERY honestly.

I have an annoying person on FB who thinks we're friends and not the vague acquaintances that we really are. I am thinking of getting very honest there.

I am worried about one more source of radiation.

You'll pick up more exposure on the flight. I do think it's conceivably a health hazard for the flight crews, who already pick up significant exposure from flying. I object because it's just another way to uselessly snarl air travel.

Not just this, but let's stop fending off the LAST terrorist attempt. You know what the shoe & underwear & liquid bombers all have in common? THEY DID NOT BLOW UP ANY PLANES.

This. People keep citing these attempts as if they're indicators of increased danger, when they're the opposite. The shoe bomber failed because people on planes have paid attention to suspicious behavior since 9/11. Similarly, no passengers or crew will go along with hijackers in the foreseeable future. While assembling a bomb from liquids is theoretically possible in the lab, the idea of smuggling the amount of liquid needed and assembling a bomb in an airplane restroom is ludicrous. The Times Square bomber failed because 1) like his recent fellows, he was an idiot and 2) he used sugar nitrate, not ammonium nitrate, which has controls on large purchases. If he hadn't also botched the method of setting off his motley assortment of gasoline, propane, fireworks and the wrong kind of fertilizer, he might have created a big fireball, but not an explosion.

I don't believe airplanes will ever be the mode of a serious attack again. When we started making people take off their shoes, we were still debating funding radiation detectors at border crossings and only examining a fraction of shipping containers.

A whole lot of the TSA procedures amounts to Security Theatre, which makes them look like they're doing something useful.

I survived the first day of the job, where we got trained and started processing real applications and double-checking each other's work. It went reasonably fast, which bodes well for the next few weeks.

I made my connecting train! And I didn`t have to show nip to do it, so I guess it`s all win.
 
We had maybe thirteen minutes in the lounge, so we at least could catch our breath. But we`re rolling again already. So I successfully did the only thing I was responsible for the whole way, which was to get on the train. We`ll get in around midnight.