I need surgery, 1 day in the hospital, 4 weeks PT and it should be all good. Following up at the regular doc, but as it stands, I need 2 ruptured disks, and 1 herniated disk taken care of. it'll be much like the one I had about a decade ago, only nobody will bring me a Usagi Yojimbo action figure this time, I imagine. Rick (the one that looked like Willie from "v") brought me one last time, and I really dug that bushido bunny.
Prop2 took her departure better than the gals at work did. I think this is a good thing... but I changed all the email/network/ remote access/ etc passwords today. I was trapped there until about 6:30 tonight... but I guess that makes up for me being late due to the doc's. I'm officially the Director of Operations now. Prop was very understanding, and I imagine she saw it coming. she offered to help me wherever she could, and though I don’t imagine I'll run into many bumps, it was very kind of her to offer, given the circumstances. I hope she finds a good gig, and swiftly.
Ben Stein *creamed* the debate on Tough Crowd tonight.. three stand up comics, Colin Quinn and probably one of the brightest political and legal minds in the entertainment industry. I really admire his power over words and ideas, even if I don't agree with many of his beliefs. (I have Nixon and Kissenger issues.)
Police expert claims Bigfoot 'proof' "A forensic expert in the US believes he has some of the strongest evidence yet that the Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, creature exists."
The creatures are real enough to those who say they have spotted them - but most scientists remain skeptical about their existence.
Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, who specializes in finger and footprints, has said he believes he is certain around six footprints found - claimed to have been made by Bigfoot - are genuine.
He added that one 42 cm (18-inch) print found in Washington in 1987 has convinced him.
"The unique thing about this cast is that it has dermal ridges - and the flow and texture matches the ridge flow texture of one from California," Mr. Chilcutt told BBC World Service's Discovery programme.
"The ridges are about twice as thick as in a human being."
Before becoming involved in bigfoot studies, Mr. Chilcutt had amassed a huge collection of ape and monkey prints as part of a police research project.
I know there's an animal out there, because I've seen the physical evidence
He added that the ridge flow pattern was crucial in proving the prints had not been made by a very large-footed human or other primate.
"The ridges run down the side of the foot - in humans, the ridges run across the width of the foot," he said.
"That's what makes it unique. The only other animal I've seen this in is a howler monkey in Costa Rica.
"As a crime scene investigator, I don't deal in what I believe or what I think.
"I examine physical evidence and make a determination... I know there's an animal out there, because I've seen the physical evidence."
The Bigfoot is considered to be a North American version of the yeti of the Himalayas. The name bigfoot comes from several huge, mysterious foot impressions found in 1959 in a Californian forest.
Hundreds of other prints have been found since, although many have turned out to be hoaxes.
"There have been reported sightings in every state of the United States, other than Hawaii and Rhode Island," said Craig Woolheater, director of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center.
"It's not the missing link, it's not an extra-terrestrial, it's just an animal - a flesh-and-blood primate that has learned to be elusive around man and avoids man where possible."
Mr. Woolheater's organization investigates about 100 Bigfoot sightings in the state each year - as well as the surrounding states of Arkansas and Louisiana.
Members use a wide range of technology - remote-controlled cameras, video surveillance systems, night-vision, and thermal imaging - in an effort to get video and photographic evidence of these creatures.
So far it has proved unsuccessful.
However, other evidence gathered through time includes footprints, audio recordings and "limb twists" - where branches of trees have seemingly been twisted by a type of primate with massive strength.
These twists are a common aspect of primate behavior and Bigfoot hunters say they occur in areas where there have been a number of sightings.
But most of the evidence - such as photographs, hair samples, and even blood - has turned out to be fake.
"There is a significant amount of evidence for Bigfoot - there are tracks, there are fuzzy photographs, there are hair samples, there are sighting reports - the problem is that it's not good evidence," said Benjamin Radford, managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
"I liken it to a cup of coffee - if you have many cups of weak coffee, they can't be combined into strong coffee.
"It's the same with scientific evidence. If you have lots of weak evidence, the cumulative effect of the evidence doesn't make it strong evidence - and what science needs to validate a Bigfoot is strong evidence."
Bigfoot is probably the best-known of the subjects of "cryptozoology" - the study of hidden creatures.
Some scientists are highly skeptical, believing these creatures to be nothing more than tricks of the mind.
"One of the problems - and I know this from my background in psychology - is that it's actually fairly easy to fool ourselves," said Mr. Radford.
"What often happens is that people will be out in the wilderness and they'll see something out of the corner of their eye - something dark or hairy or fast - that will surprise or shock them.
"If they're already thinking that there's a Bigfoot in the area, it's easy to make the leap between saying: 'I saw something, I don't know what it is,' to: 'I saw something and it's Bigfoot.'"
But others say it is best to keep an open mind.
"Every now and again big things turn up," Colin Tudge, zoologist and author of the book The Variety Of Life, told Discovery.
"The okapi - a horse-sized relative of the giraffe - turned up only in the early 20th Century.
"A few years ago somebody discovered an absolutely enormous shark in the ocean.
"The most recent - and I think the most spectacular - is an animal that people think is a goat-antelope, some kind of relative of the shamuar, which has turned up in the forests of Vietnam.
"This is an animal about the size of a Shetland pony with long horns, that nobody even suspected was there until just a few years ago - it was finally identified in about 1994."
Herbal Web Sites Not Always Honest - "A new survey has found half of all Internet marketers of herbal products have violated federal law by making false claims or omitting legally required disclaimers and medical warnings. The findings suggest many consumers are vulnerable to purchasing substandard or potentially dangerous products by patronizing the illegal sites."
The rapid growth in the herbal supplements market over the past five or so years coincided with the explosive growth of the Internet over the same period. The twin booms led to the popular practice of consumers purchasing herbal products online requiring nothing more than a credit card number and a shipping address, but the herbal product manufacturers do not always keep consumers fully informed about the supplements' limitations.
"The (herbal) industry is primarily regulated at the post-marketing level," Dr. Charles Morris, an internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital's division of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics in Boston, told United Press International. That means the government does not have the authority to step in unless an herbal product has been found faulty or dangerous, if advertising information on the product makes unauthorized health claims to directly cure disease, or if the product labeling states unsubstantiated claims.
"It's up to federal agencies to police the Internet," Morris commented.
Morris and colleagues analyzed 443 Web sites by using online search engines to find information on the eight top-selling herbs: St. John's wort, echinacea, ginseng, garlic, saw palmetto, ginkgo biloba, kava kava, and valerian root. Of the 338 sites examined that sold herbal products, 81 percent made one or more health claims. Among this group of sites, 55 percent claimed to treat, prevent, diagnose or cure a specific illness. At the same time, they frequently failed to mention risks. Morris said several sites failed to disclose, for example, recent research linking kava kava use to liver toxicity -- although those findings remain controversial.
Under the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health Education Act, federal law prohibits dietary supplement manufacturers from making specific claims that their products treat or cure particular diseases. For example, an herbal product label can state "garlic may help promote healthy circulation," but it cannot state "garlic prevents heart attacks."
Unlike prescription and over-the-counter drug manufacturers, however, makers of herbal products are not required to submit their health claims to the Food and Drug Administration in advance of marketing their product. Morris said this legal framework sets up the federal government to play catch-up with the herbal industry.
"DSHEA has certainly changed or impaired the federal government's ability to regulate this industry," Morris said. "A lot of what consumers can now find and read on the Internet is somehow indirectly or directly related to the legislation in 1994. We would strongly call for the consideration of pre-marketing regulations, just like (for) prescription or over-the-counter drugs."
The alternative therapy craze is not fading. Morris said 2001 data show half of the U.S. adult population spent about $18 billion on herbal remedies. This is consistent with a 2002 survey, conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which found 62 percent of online users that year searched the Web for health information, with more than half reporting they were looking for information on alternative medicine.
"We've always been concerned about consumers who don't have the ability to determine what's reasonable and credible information on the Web," Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council in Austin, Texas, told UPI. "We don't think (manufacturers) should be making claims beyond what the law allows. There are definitely products that have been reported to be misleading. Some of the stuff on government, "dot-gov" Web sites aren't necessarily all that reliable."
However, he added, "just because a claim on the Internet might be illegal because it doesn't fit technical requirements of the regulatory system doesn't mean that it's not true."
Blumenthal suggested more regulations might not be the answer. "I don't think there's any legislation needed," he said. "It's an issue of needing more active self-regulation by companies making their claims."
Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Product Association in Washington, a trade group representing about 200 companies, said he "would love to see more active enforcement" by the Federal Trade Commission, the agency overseeing advertising regulations, to prevent misleading herbal information from being distributed online.
"It's important to our trade that the regulators do their job because if they don't do their job, it's bad business for all of us," McGuffin told UPI. "The Internet is just such a rampant business opportunity. If you're in business today in the U.S.A., you have a Web site. It behooves (every company) to make sure the information on (its) Web site is accurate and legal."
McGuffin said he thinks most herbal manufacturers obey federal law. "The majority of companies marketing their goods in the United States are doing the right thing." But physicians like Dr. Bishmal Ashar, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who see patients experimenting with herbal products online, question whether that statement is true.
The Internet is such a fluid medium that companies can change their Web sites within a few minutes, Ashar said. He recently conducted his own research investigating ephedra, the popular Chinese herb used for weight loss, and found Internet claims on the product were not always truthful. "When you run across an ad that sounds so good and you want lose weight and nothing's worked before, it's very enticing to want try these products," he told UPI.
"It's very difficult to track and follow and keep up with companies who just want to change Web sites," Ashar added. "It's a very difficult enforcement problem. Patients should just be wary of anything that sounds too good to be true."
Sean Cullen - the chimp and the woman
There was an old woman who lived alone
No one called her on the telephone
She went into the woods one day
Found a young chimp, who had gone astray
She took that little primate home
So she wouldn't have to be alone
They spent the winter together
Warm in their love, despite the harshness of the winter weather
The chimp and the woman
Living together in a house of stone
The chimp and the woman
They made that house a home
The chimp and the woman were happy there
The chimp was safe; the woman had found a friend
But when the townsfolk heard of this bizarre affair
They said how could she love a creature that is covered with hair?
They came with axes and torches
They burnt the front and back porches
They kicked in the door
Shouting "Death to the chimp-loving whore!"
But she was gone; no one knew where they went
Years went by, the world spun around
Then one day a strange creature walked into town
It came in from the wild
It was a half human half chimp hybrid child
And it said:
I am the chimpy child, on whom fortune has smiled
If we could live in peace, then all hatred would cease
If we could live with love, with blessings from up above
If we could just hold hands, then maybe we'd understand
And the people, the people...
They beat him to death with a rock.
Today's the big day. I wonder how it's all going to go down. I guess I'll see soon enough. I've got mixed feelings about it. I know it's got to be done, but I feel badly about her situation.
Poop in the Pool - The Fecal Accident Response Team would make a great subject for a new crime investigation television series. Sample dialogue: "A diarrheal fecal accident is a higher risk event than a formed stool accident."
My Vamp is 2 pints away from having 10000. "You have drunk 9998 pints of blood. Your rank is Legendary - next rank at 10000 pints." You are sire to 110 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (7627 pints), MissV (3142 pints), Liliana (2784 pints), gilbella (1410 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), Morgoth (1059 pints), Nathanael (816 pints), night_flyer (752 pints), wchmum (719 pints), phenrill (406 pints) Care to join us? Any of my brood that wishes to come along and go on a massive tear Halloween week through the city, feel free to contact me in comments, and we can organize a mob.
Meanwhile, a clue - The barman says "The closest shop to here is Scrollmania, right by Emerald and 95th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."
The Bangkok Forensics Museum: Tattoos. (not for the squeamish)
Alana's compleat diagram of strange persons
ADVENTURES WITH AN ICE PICK: a short history of lobotomy
A scientist at Australia's Melbourne Museum revealed that he had captured and photographed the male of the world’s most sexually unequal species. When a male blanket octopus (3/4 of an inch long) mates with the female (6 feet long), it uses a special extension arm to transfer sperm from its penis, and then dies. Norman pointed out that females, which may weigh 10,000 times more than males, are typically found with several such extension arms lodged inside them.
Three entries I made on Usenet from about a decade ago, Via my FAU account. Topics are: Beakmans World (I've since met Paul Zaloom, a nice guy, though Bill Nye had more staying power and got better writing and projects over time.) Doc Savage, and Blood bowl. That's a pretty good synopsis of what I was into at the time.
Some of my old taglines -
Some other ASCII movies too.. The Croc Hunter is especially good.
current mood: Karate Monkey
current music: Mario Twins - Shiggity Shiggity Shwa
Prop2 took her departure better than the gals at work did. I think this is a good thing... but I changed all the email/network/ remote access/ etc passwords today. I was trapped there until about 6:30 tonight... but I guess that makes up for me being late due to the doc's. I'm officially the Director of Operations now. Prop was very understanding, and I imagine she saw it coming. she offered to help me wherever she could, and though I don’t imagine I'll run into many bumps, it was very kind of her to offer, given the circumstances. I hope she finds a good gig, and swiftly.
Ben Stein *creamed* the debate on Tough Crowd tonight.. three stand up comics, Colin Quinn and probably one of the brightest political and legal minds in the entertainment industry. I really admire his power over words and ideas, even if I don't agree with many of his beliefs. (I have Nixon and Kissenger issues.)
Police expert claims Bigfoot 'proof' "A forensic expert in the US believes he has some of the strongest evidence yet that the Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, creature exists."
The creatures are real enough to those who say they have spotted them - but most scientists remain skeptical about their existence.
Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, who specializes in finger and footprints, has said he believes he is certain around six footprints found - claimed to have been made by Bigfoot - are genuine.
He added that one 42 cm (18-inch) print found in Washington in 1987 has convinced him.
"The unique thing about this cast is that it has dermal ridges - and the flow and texture matches the ridge flow texture of one from California," Mr. Chilcutt told BBC World Service's Discovery programme.
"The ridges are about twice as thick as in a human being."
Before becoming involved in bigfoot studies, Mr. Chilcutt had amassed a huge collection of ape and monkey prints as part of a police research project.
I know there's an animal out there, because I've seen the physical evidence
He added that the ridge flow pattern was crucial in proving the prints had not been made by a very large-footed human or other primate.
"The ridges run down the side of the foot - in humans, the ridges run across the width of the foot," he said.
"That's what makes it unique. The only other animal I've seen this in is a howler monkey in Costa Rica.
"As a crime scene investigator, I don't deal in what I believe or what I think.
"I examine physical evidence and make a determination... I know there's an animal out there, because I've seen the physical evidence."
The Bigfoot is considered to be a North American version of the yeti of the Himalayas. The name bigfoot comes from several huge, mysterious foot impressions found in 1959 in a Californian forest.
Hundreds of other prints have been found since, although many have turned out to be hoaxes.
"There have been reported sightings in every state of the United States, other than Hawaii and Rhode Island," said Craig Woolheater, director of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center.
"It's not the missing link, it's not an extra-terrestrial, it's just an animal - a flesh-and-blood primate that has learned to be elusive around man and avoids man where possible."
Mr. Woolheater's organization investigates about 100 Bigfoot sightings in the state each year - as well as the surrounding states of Arkansas and Louisiana.
Members use a wide range of technology - remote-controlled cameras, video surveillance systems, night-vision, and thermal imaging - in an effort to get video and photographic evidence of these creatures.
So far it has proved unsuccessful.
However, other evidence gathered through time includes footprints, audio recordings and "limb twists" - where branches of trees have seemingly been twisted by a type of primate with massive strength.
These twists are a common aspect of primate behavior and Bigfoot hunters say they occur in areas where there have been a number of sightings.
But most of the evidence - such as photographs, hair samples, and even blood - has turned out to be fake.
"There is a significant amount of evidence for Bigfoot - there are tracks, there are fuzzy photographs, there are hair samples, there are sighting reports - the problem is that it's not good evidence," said Benjamin Radford, managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
"I liken it to a cup of coffee - if you have many cups of weak coffee, they can't be combined into strong coffee.
"It's the same with scientific evidence. If you have lots of weak evidence, the cumulative effect of the evidence doesn't make it strong evidence - and what science needs to validate a Bigfoot is strong evidence."
Bigfoot is probably the best-known of the subjects of "cryptozoology" - the study of hidden creatures.
Some scientists are highly skeptical, believing these creatures to be nothing more than tricks of the mind.
"One of the problems - and I know this from my background in psychology - is that it's actually fairly easy to fool ourselves," said Mr. Radford.
"What often happens is that people will be out in the wilderness and they'll see something out of the corner of their eye - something dark or hairy or fast - that will surprise or shock them.
"If they're already thinking that there's a Bigfoot in the area, it's easy to make the leap between saying: 'I saw something, I don't know what it is,' to: 'I saw something and it's Bigfoot.'"
But others say it is best to keep an open mind.
"Every now and again big things turn up," Colin Tudge, zoologist and author of the book The Variety Of Life, told Discovery.
"The okapi - a horse-sized relative of the giraffe - turned up only in the early 20th Century.
"A few years ago somebody discovered an absolutely enormous shark in the ocean.
"The most recent - and I think the most spectacular - is an animal that people think is a goat-antelope, some kind of relative of the shamuar, which has turned up in the forests of Vietnam.
"This is an animal about the size of a Shetland pony with long horns, that nobody even suspected was there until just a few years ago - it was finally identified in about 1994."
Herbal Web Sites Not Always Honest - "A new survey has found half of all Internet marketers of herbal products have violated federal law by making false claims or omitting legally required disclaimers and medical warnings. The findings suggest many consumers are vulnerable to purchasing substandard or potentially dangerous products by patronizing the illegal sites."
The rapid growth in the herbal supplements market over the past five or so years coincided with the explosive growth of the Internet over the same period. The twin booms led to the popular practice of consumers purchasing herbal products online requiring nothing more than a credit card number and a shipping address, but the herbal product manufacturers do not always keep consumers fully informed about the supplements' limitations.
"The (herbal) industry is primarily regulated at the post-marketing level," Dr. Charles Morris, an internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital's division of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics in Boston, told United Press International. That means the government does not have the authority to step in unless an herbal product has been found faulty or dangerous, if advertising information on the product makes unauthorized health claims to directly cure disease, or if the product labeling states unsubstantiated claims.
"It's up to federal agencies to police the Internet," Morris commented.
Morris and colleagues analyzed 443 Web sites by using online search engines to find information on the eight top-selling herbs: St. John's wort, echinacea, ginseng, garlic, saw palmetto, ginkgo biloba, kava kava, and valerian root. Of the 338 sites examined that sold herbal products, 81 percent made one or more health claims. Among this group of sites, 55 percent claimed to treat, prevent, diagnose or cure a specific illness. At the same time, they frequently failed to mention risks. Morris said several sites failed to disclose, for example, recent research linking kava kava use to liver toxicity -- although those findings remain controversial.
Under the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health Education Act, federal law prohibits dietary supplement manufacturers from making specific claims that their products treat or cure particular diseases. For example, an herbal product label can state "garlic may help promote healthy circulation," but it cannot state "garlic prevents heart attacks."
Unlike prescription and over-the-counter drug manufacturers, however, makers of herbal products are not required to submit their health claims to the Food and Drug Administration in advance of marketing their product. Morris said this legal framework sets up the federal government to play catch-up with the herbal industry.
"DSHEA has certainly changed or impaired the federal government's ability to regulate this industry," Morris said. "A lot of what consumers can now find and read on the Internet is somehow indirectly or directly related to the legislation in 1994. We would strongly call for the consideration of pre-marketing regulations, just like (for) prescription or over-the-counter drugs."
The alternative therapy craze is not fading. Morris said 2001 data show half of the U.S. adult population spent about $18 billion on herbal remedies. This is consistent with a 2002 survey, conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which found 62 percent of online users that year searched the Web for health information, with more than half reporting they were looking for information on alternative medicine.
"We've always been concerned about consumers who don't have the ability to determine what's reasonable and credible information on the Web," Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council in Austin, Texas, told UPI. "We don't think (manufacturers) should be making claims beyond what the law allows. There are definitely products that have been reported to be misleading. Some of the stuff on government, "dot-gov" Web sites aren't necessarily all that reliable."
However, he added, "just because a claim on the Internet might be illegal because it doesn't fit technical requirements of the regulatory system doesn't mean that it's not true."
Blumenthal suggested more regulations might not be the answer. "I don't think there's any legislation needed," he said. "It's an issue of needing more active self-regulation by companies making their claims."
Michael McGuffin, president of the American Herbal Product Association in Washington, a trade group representing about 200 companies, said he "would love to see more active enforcement" by the Federal Trade Commission, the agency overseeing advertising regulations, to prevent misleading herbal information from being distributed online.
"It's important to our trade that the regulators do their job because if they don't do their job, it's bad business for all of us," McGuffin told UPI. "The Internet is just such a rampant business opportunity. If you're in business today in the U.S.A., you have a Web site. It behooves (every company) to make sure the information on (its) Web site is accurate and legal."
McGuffin said he thinks most herbal manufacturers obey federal law. "The majority of companies marketing their goods in the United States are doing the right thing." But physicians like Dr. Bishmal Ashar, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who see patients experimenting with herbal products online, question whether that statement is true.
The Internet is such a fluid medium that companies can change their Web sites within a few minutes, Ashar said. He recently conducted his own research investigating ephedra, the popular Chinese herb used for weight loss, and found Internet claims on the product were not always truthful. "When you run across an ad that sounds so good and you want lose weight and nothing's worked before, it's very enticing to want try these products," he told UPI.
"It's very difficult to track and follow and keep up with companies who just want to change Web sites," Ashar added. "It's a very difficult enforcement problem. Patients should just be wary of anything that sounds too good to be true."
Sean Cullen - the chimp and the woman
There was an old woman who lived alone
No one called her on the telephone
She went into the woods one day
Found a young chimp, who had gone astray
She took that little primate home
So she wouldn't have to be alone
They spent the winter together
Warm in their love, despite the harshness of the winter weather
The chimp and the woman
Living together in a house of stone
The chimp and the woman
They made that house a home
The chimp and the woman were happy there
The chimp was safe; the woman had found a friend
But when the townsfolk heard of this bizarre affair
They said how could she love a creature that is covered with hair?
They came with axes and torches
They burnt the front and back porches
They kicked in the door
Shouting "Death to the chimp-loving whore!"
But she was gone; no one knew where they went
Years went by, the world spun around
Then one day a strange creature walked into town
It came in from the wild
It was a half human half chimp hybrid child
And it said:
I am the chimpy child, on whom fortune has smiled
If we could live in peace, then all hatred would cease
If we could live with love, with blessings from up above
If we could just hold hands, then maybe we'd understand
And the people, the people...
They beat him to death with a rock.
Today's the big day. I wonder how it's all going to go down. I guess I'll see soon enough. I've got mixed feelings about it. I know it's got to be done, but I feel badly about her situation.
Poop in the Pool - The Fecal Accident Response Team would make a great subject for a new crime investigation television series. Sample dialogue: "A diarrheal fecal accident is a higher risk event than a formed stool accident."
Germ Inactivation Time for Chlorinated Water*
| Germ | Time |
| E. coli O157:H7 Bacterium | Less than 1 minute |
| Hepatitis A Virus | about 16 minutes |
| Giardia Parasite | about 45 minutes |
| Cryptosporidium Parasite | about 9600 minutes (6.7 days) |
| * 1ppm (1mg/L) chlorine at pH 7.5 and 77°F (25°C) | |
My Vamp is 2 pints away from having 10000. "You have drunk 9998 pints of blood. Your rank is Legendary - next rank at 10000 pints." You are sire to 110 other vampires, including: LdySaphyre (7627 pints), MissV (3142 pints), Liliana (2784 pints), gilbella (1410 pints), mixedresults (1246 pints), Morgoth (1059 pints), Nathanael (816 pints), night_flyer (752 pints), wchmum (719 pints), phenrill (406 pints) Care to join us? Any of my brood that wishes to come along and go on a massive tear Halloween week through the city, feel free to contact me in comments, and we can organize a mob.
Meanwhile, a clue - The barman says "The closest shop to here is Scrollmania, right by Emerald and 95th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."
The Bangkok Forensics Museum: Tattoos. (not for the squeamish)
Alana's compleat diagram of strange persons
ADVENTURES WITH AN ICE PICK: a short history of lobotomy
A scientist at Australia's Melbourne Museum revealed that he had captured and photographed the male of the world’s most sexually unequal species. When a male blanket octopus (3/4 of an inch long) mates with the female (6 feet long), it uses a special extension arm to transfer sperm from its penis, and then dies. Norman pointed out that females, which may weigh 10,000 times more than males, are typically found with several such extension arms lodged inside them.
Three entries I made on Usenet from about a decade ago, Via my FAU account. Topics are: Beakmans World (I've since met Paul Zaloom, a nice guy, though Bill Nye had more staying power and got better writing and projects over time.) Doc Savage, and Blood bowl. That's a pretty good synopsis of what I was into at the time.
Some of my old taglines -
()
/\ _/_ _/_ \O/
/ ) _, ____/ / |
/__/__(___(_) (___<__ _/ \_
<\---/>
( . . )
----------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo-----
"No Matter where you go, there you are."
------------------------------------------------------ooO-Ooo-------
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Strong enough for a man,
But pH balanced for a woman.
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Some other ASCII movies too.. The Croc Hunter is especially good.
current mood: Karate Monkey
current music: Mario Twins - Shiggity Shiggity Shwa
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