Strange things happened to Netscape (and now it's refusing to open), so my effusiveness went interrupted. To meara:

Wait. The next fifty years? So like, from now, to 2055?

Actually, I think it's that it starts getting bad about then. Not that it'll be unlivable by then. Er, but I'm not much with the sciencey stuff, and tend to get it wrong.

Rub the entire ear - even a little stroking on the inside of the tip.

By this point my cat is flicking her ear and looking annoyed.

Scratch the side of his face, below his whiskers.

By this point my cat has bitten you and gone away.

(Even a cat you just met is now melting under your touch!)

Ha.

With clouds of billowing white nylon mesh, mauve or denim blue accent bows and a matching pillow, this tent is pure fantasy.

They mean "billowing nylon shreds," don't they?

Maybe the avian flu will kill enough people to head off global warming?

My understanding is that NOTHING CAN STOP THE WARMING.

Yay! I think it's done -- making a mad dash.

Go Wolfram! Sorry that you didn't get to show your mad trial skillz, but may you always intimidate the opposition so well.

My understanding is that NOTHING CAN STOP THE WARMING.

I vote for the Futurama solution of dropping a giant ice cube into the oceans every 50 years.

She's only 23 pounds, so even though she's about average for height, she just looks so much smaller than the other toddlers.

Em looks so tiny next to babies her age. She's looks so Dresden sometimes. She's 14 lbs. 4 oz at her 6 month check up.

Okay people, I know the East coast just left work en masse and the Central people are getting ready for it, but this does NOT MEAN you can stop entertaining me in my time of chattiness.

From my friend Mitch, a more-or-less worksafe girly calendar link... with a difference. Can you tell what it is? (Aside from being an Italian website, that is.)

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this does NOT MEAN you can stop entertaining me in my time of chattiness

Puts on top hat and tap shoes, checks for glitter to throw...

Emily - I have to be here for another hour.

Did you guys know that there are truffles in the USA? I mean the funghi, not the chocolate kind.

Theo, They are all on caskets?

didn't leave yet.

Oh! I forgot to tell you all, I was telling a student to behave today and he started to talk back and I said, "Monkey! just hush and sit down." I don;t think anyone noticed, or at least they didn't respond in anyway.