Nice:

My wife and I bought our Sarah several pairs so we can watch her around the clock, and if we see her temperature rising too high, we intervene by calling her cellphone or just picking her up wherever she is. My only comment is it would be great to have a video camera, maybe you can work that into V.2.

You're not wrong, Jesse. 6 pm is at least two hours two late.

There was only one place in my neighborhood (or at least, on the three blocks nearest my apartment) open for brunch this morning, and it was a friggin madhouse. The place was packed, and they only had two waiters, one of whom was clearly just experienced enough to think he was being helpful when in fact he was not. (He kept trying to serve people not in his area, and seat people without telling the host, and so they had to spend time figuring out what he'd done and to who, instead of taking care of their own jobs. And because he was running around doing everyone's job but his own, his tables weren't getting served at all. It was chaos.)

Good food, though.

And it just gets funnier the more we talk about it.

After being pressed by the interviewers to provide deeper meaning, "the patients often came up with elaborate, even ingenious interpretations, that were completely off the mark," Ramachandran remarks. For example, patient SJ expounded on "all that glitters is not gold" by noting that you should be careful when buying jewelry because the sellers could rob you of your money.

See now this doesn't seem particularly elaborate to me. Also, it's not completely off the mark. It's basically exactly what that saying means, just a little bit too specific. But apt.

Actually, we here manage to both LOVE metaphor, and revel in being overly literal. Clearly, the two conditions are not always mutually exclusive.

Those panties are CREEPY. Please tell me they're not real.

Please tell me they're not real.

They're not. I guess I should have said up front.

Oh, good. I mean, you never know -- the Japanese have invented some very bizarre things.

revel in being overly literal.

You actually have parties to celebrate being literal?

Between your "hee" and the testimonials, I thought it was pretty clear.

Between your "hee" and the testimonials, I thought it was pretty clear.

Yep. I have to admit I never made it to the testimonials. I had a feeling ita's hee wasn't true though. I should have said so.

Okay, to distract from my embarrassing gullibility, I give you this (opens a WMV file), which I can't stop watching.