My most sweet love must’ve hit the sack early… I think I’ll do the same.

See you slothy-lusters tomorrow!

*waves

clue-by-four

[Usenet: portmanteau, clue + two-by-four] The notional stick with which one whacks an aggressively clueless person. This term derives from a western American folk saying about training a mule “First, you got to hit him with a two-by-four. That’s to get his attention.” The clue-by-four is a close relative of the LART. Syn. `clue stick’. This metaphor is commonly elaborated; your editor once heard a hacker say “I smite you with the great sword Cluebringer!”

see also –

pococurante (po-ko-koo-RAN-tee, -kyoo-) adjective

Indifferent, apathetic, nonchalant.

noun

A careless or indifferent person.

[From Italian, poco little + curante, present participle of curare, to
care, from Latin, curare, cure, care.]

folks are really lucky I forgot to bring my clue-by-four into work today, and neglected to mercilessly pummel the gathered pococurante population.

http://www.iht.com/articles/17225.html

lamprey eel brain in a robot. Ok… now this is something out of Brainiac or Lex Luthor’s crime file right here.

“They [lampreys] feed by biting their victims, fastening themselves by their sphincter-like mouths. Once attached, the lamprey begins to drain blood…”

do you really want something that used to drive a tooth-filled mouth of death inside of a robot? In the words of seanbaby…“Why not the brain of something less dangerous like a fire-breathing crocodile or Joseph Stalin? Then maybe you could attach a power drill to its face and hire it out to daycare centers!”

I now officially fear the day when robotic flesh-eating cyborgs come to chew off my face. THANKS, SCIENCE!!

Doesn’t *ANYONE* flowchart anymore?

Baba Yaga
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In a number of East European myths, a Baba Yaga (there are more than one) is a cannibalistic witch who lives in a hut on the edge of the forest. The hut stands on chicken legs and will only lower itself after Baba Yaga said a certain rhyme. A picket fence surrounds the hut and she places the skulls of her victims on it. For transportation Baba Yaga uses a giant mortar which she drives at high speed across the forest floor by steering the pestle with her right hand and sweeping away all traces of her passage with a broom in her left hand. A host of spirits often follows her.
Baba Yaga is often represented as a little, ugly, old woman with a huge and distorted nose and long teeth. She is also called Jezi-Baba or Baba Yaga Kostianaya Noga (“bone-legs”), referring to the fact that she is rather skinny. She is regarded as the devil’s own grandmother.

In old Hungarian folklore, Baba (“old woman”) was originally a good fairy but was later degraded to a witch. A Baba Yaga is a hard bargainer, and will threaten to eat those who do not fulfil their part of an agreement.

diastema (die-uh-STEE-mah) noun, plural diastemata

A gap between two adjacent teeth.

[Late Latin, from Greek diastema, interval, from diiastanai, to put
apart.]

Singing for Daizee

the collective unconsciousness project has finally launched!
Here you can travel through the dream database in a fluid and exploratory manner.

Your travel will be based on connections of ideas and themes, and will be formed by both your interactions and the connections that are created. You have a limited amount of control, yet everything is related somehow.

http://www-sphys.unil.ch/escher/

Escher-sketch… neato.

Newt has been a loud motorboat of a purr-fellow, lately… it stands out because when we sleep, his head goes right under my chin.

hallux (HAL-uhks) noun, plural halluces (HAL-yuh-seez)

Big toe. More generally, the innermost digit on the hind foot of animals.
It is usually backward-directed in birds.

[Latin hallux, hallus.]

I want…

To stay home, in bed with my sweetie… a plate of fresh, chilled, succulent fruit on a platter… some coffee, and a bowl of alpha-bits.

I just want to cuddle, nap, munch and make love today. Is that so wrong?

Cop Tells Fire truck – No Parking In Fire Lane

DC’s fire and police departments are investigating an incident in Northwest in which there was some sort of dispute between an officer and a firefighter. Sources tell the station a fire truck pulled up to attach a hose to a hydrant. But a police officer — in the area to patrol during a demonstration — told the firefighter not to park there, and he had to “move the truck or be arrested.”
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wjla/20010430/lo/dc_policeman_firefighter_butt_heads_1.html

Iraq Has The Nuke

Iraq tested a bomb in 1987 that cast a radioactive cloud in the open air and was designed to cause vomiting, cancer, birth defects and slow death, according to a secret Iraqi report on the weapon’s construction and testing.
Radiation or radiological weapons, sometimes known as “dirty nukes,” are the poor cousins of nuclear arms. Their conventional high explosives scatter highly radioactive materials to poison targets rather than destroying them with blast and heat. Their effects on people can range from radiation sickness to agonizingly slow death, which is why military experts often see them as ethically bankrupt.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20010430/548201.html

Man Gets Paid $20K For Not Being a Child Molester

A Manitoba man wrongly accused of sexually assaulting his child has received $20,000 compensation from a child welfare agency. The man from Beausejour, who cannot be identified to protect his daughter’s identity, fended off the allegations between 1995 and 1999, when an over-zealous social worker was convinced he was guilty.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010430/548161.html

The Broken English Chinese Cyber Assualts Begin

The Web site of United Press International was among several Internet locations, including some associated with the U.S. Navy and other government agencies, hacked by interests of China who assign blame for the April 1 collision of the U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet on the United States.
“The Great Chinese Nation Hooray!!!! USA Will Be With Responsibility for the Accident Totally!!! Protest USA sell Weapon to Taiwan, Break The World Peace!!! USA IS BITCH! I am From China — Peak.”
http://kevxml.infospace.com/_1_4KSGTUU0BC5B4O__info/kevxml?kcfg=upi-article&sin=200104300917050004232&otmpl=/upi/story.htm&qcat=news&rn=19087&qk=10&passdate=04/30/2001

Pedicurist Bath Blamed for Boils

A trip to the beauty salon was anything but pretty for more than 100 women in California.
A contaminated pedicurist’s footbath led to unsightly and potentially disfiguring boils on 109 customers’ legs ranging in size from a nickel to a half-dollar, a disease investigator with the federal Centers for Disease Control concluded.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010430/hl/boils010427_1.html

NC Researchers: Wrestling Is The Cause Of All Problems

High school students who watch wrestling on television may also be more likely to drink, chew tobacco, carry a gun and fight with their dates, according to North Carolina researchers who presented their findings Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
Among high school boys, 63% of whom were recent viewers, watching wrestling was associated with having started a
fight with a date, as well as with carrying a gun or other weapon, using chewing tobacco, taking Ritalin without a prescription and driving after drinking alcohol, according to the survey results.
Yeah, remember that time Stone Cold injected ritalin into his eye?
That was AWESOME!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010430/hl/students_tvwrestling_1.html

But He Was Just A Bum

A homeless man appearing in court on a minor charge of drinking in public gasped for air and pleaded for medical help, but the judge summoned nurses and let the man lie on the floor as other defendants filed through the busy courtroom. Ten minutes later, U.S. marshals pulled the man, Robert Waters, 54, to his feet and took him not to a hospital but a cellblock. He later died
“He kept asking for help, saying, ‘I can’t breathe, man.’ And the marshals would say, ‘Right, buddy.’ He finally collapsed on the floor. When they went in there, he wasn’t breathing.”
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010428/us/dying_defendant_2.html