Gah. Upsetting. No more mousetraps.
Yikes. I mean, yay for the Beatrix Potter gentleness, but boo for having to demonstrate it. I am thinking the humane traps are your best bet. Although now thinking affectionately back to moments in history of my stepmother girding herself to catch a mouse in a bathroom once -- apron, boots, oven mitts, broom and paper bag. She looked like a hockey goalie, lacking only the mask.
Emmett! That face! Glad to see someone has already invoked Owen Wilson. By no stretch of the imagination should anyone say the name Tony Conigliaro to him.
I've never actually seen the Theismann play. The descriptions were so bad that I always change the channel when someone says they're going to show it.
I've seen lots of talk about it, but never seen it either. I don't think they actually show it any more, only still photos of afterwards. (I did watch part of an NFL game where a man broke his neck, and was being breathed for on the field, and the commentators in their booth were carefully not explaining that as they hastily cut to commercial. He ended up OK later.)
Anyone else seen the AARP commercial criticizing Dubya's Social Security plan where the woman has a clogged sink and they demolish her whole house?
I saw that! Halfway through I was like, Oh, this is political! Clever.
(Is the Theismann play the broken-leg one? 'Cause, ugh.)
Timelies. Poor Emmett! May his ENT be as kick-ass as mine.
Yes. Basically, if you depend on your legs for your job, don't let Laurence Taylor sit down on your lap. That goes double if he leaps into your lap at 30 mph. IIRC, it was a compound fracture, too.
Anyone familiar with Michelle Delio? She's a freelance writer - if you google her you'll see tons of articles she's written.
From Wired:
A Note to Readers
In light of TechnologyReview.com's recent retraction of two stories by freelance writer Michelle Delio, we are reviewing articles written by her for Wired News. We have assigned Adam Penenberg, a journalism professor at New York University who writes a media column for Wired News, to conduct the review.
From technologyreview.com:
Technology Review, Inc. cannot vouch for the accuracy of "Carly's Way," by Michelle Delio, published online on March 4, 2005. Nor can we stand by "Carly's Gone. HP Celebrates," also by Delio, published online on February 10, 2005. We regret publishing the stories.
Details on the retraction: [link]
The “Carly’s Way” story was an “as told to” from the perspective of a former engineer and was billed this way: “A former Hewlett-Packard engineer tells his version of how Carly Fiorina, HP's ousted CEO, wrecked the company's greatest asset: its labs.”
Hmmm... this stuff fascinates me.
Basically, if you depend on your legs for your job, don't let Laurence Taylor sit down on your lap. That goes double if he leaps into your lap at 30 mph.
Do I remember correctly that LT knew immediately that something very wrong had happened and got everybody's attention?
When we had some mice a couple months ago, Tom caught them with the top of a stainless steel wok top, slid a thin piece of cardboard underneath, and let the mice go outside. Stealthy, my husband is.
We think they were new mice and disoriented to the layout, which was what made them easier to catch. Hopefully they will stay away, because of the tall dude with the stainless steel cage. They can curse our first floor neighbors who I don't like so much anyway.
A former Hewlett-Packard engineer tells his version of how Carly Fiorina, HP's ousted CEO, wrecked the company's greatest asset: its labs.
There's some stuff about this issue that just got pulled off my university's website.
