ION, I have downloaded GoogleTalk. I like the little talk bubble that it uses. I've invited three people who I know that have gmail. So far, nobody has accepted.

Does that work with Windows ME?

And I'm all fretful about Hec, whose job has been almost nonstop vile for the last few months and whose insomnia is much worse.

My temporary solution to a similar problem has been the liberal application of both beer and Deadwood DVDs.

Not only do I get to drink and watch violence, I get to say to myself, "Well, at least you don't have smallpox like that sorry cocksucker."

JACKHOLE is BADASS!

EAT IT!

am still busy. will never catch up. weirdly not bothered.

The "Bender PC" It even says "Bite my shiny metal ass!" on command.

Someone entertain me.

Me too.

Timelies, all.

I just got back from Maine, which was mostly fun. Went to the beach and went kayaking and went shopping. Ate lots of good food -- for a while there, the only vegetarian options at restaurants in southern Maine were salad, spaghetti with marinara, or grilled cheese, but the past few years they've gotten much more interesting.

From Page Six:

AN after-hours orgy erupted at celebrity chef Mario Batali's Bistro Du Vent last week, resulting in the firing of four staffers, PAGE SIX has learned.

The randy sex romp between an openly bisexual waitress, a male chef, a female manager and a waiter was captured on the West 42nd Street restaurant's surveillance cameras, which feed to a monitor right next to the host's stand.

We're told that the oversexed staffers were boozing it up at the bar after closing when things got physical.

Our snitch, who saw the steamy surveillance footage, says the X-rated action took place "on the bar top, down to the floor, on top of the banquettes — chef on waitress, manager on waiter, waiter on waitress, all four tangled up in one bunch."

But apparently the night porter caught a glimpse of the freaky festivities, and told the incoming dishwashers and busboys that morning on his way out. They, in turn, tattled to the waiters and waitresses, who all crowded around the host stand monitor and watched the orgy unspool, freeze-framing it at points for maximum enjoyment.

I kinda got the whole calories conversion thing -- what surprises me is that adding 90 minutes of running moves my weight downwards, and adding, say, five hours of krav doesn't.

Go play on the subway