I kinda need to figure out why all my perl scripts started bombing at midnight on friday.

You ran out of disk space.

The whole time I was reading that article about the old man and the mouse, I couldn't stop thinking, "You know, if he'd only heeded the cautionary tale of the Squirrel Cop, this never would have happened."

There seems to be a critical lack of peons at my workplace.

Signed,
Pissy Rare Peon Type Person

I stopped taking the vitamins because I take so many prescription drugs that it made me feel like I was popping too many drugs all at once. I need to get past that feeling I guess.

I've starting taking a Calcium supplement because I hate drinking milk, so I know I don't get enough calcium in my diet, and because both my grandmothers had osteoporosis. Maybe it's too late to stop the inevitibility of this but maybe it's not.

Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin

By M.L. Johnson, Associated Press Writer | January 7, 2006

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Brown University's library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather.

But here's its secret: the book is bound in human skin.

A number of prestigious libraries -- including Harvard University's -- have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past, said Laura Hartman, a rare book cataloger at the National Library of Medicine in Maryland and author of a paper on the subject.

An article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from the late 1800s "suggests that it was common, but it also indicates it wasn't talked about in polite society," Hartman said.

The best libraries then belonged to private collectors. Some were doctors who had access to skin from amputated parts and patients whose bodies were not claimed. They found human leather to be relatively cheap, durable and waterproof, Hartman said.

In other cases, wealthy bibliophiles may have acquired the skin from criminals who were executed, cadavers used in medical schools and people who died in the poor house, said Sam Streit, director of Brown's John Hay Library.

Full article: [link]

I stopped takeing vitiamins because I was takeing so many drugs that the vitiamin - just pushed my stomach over the edge. and I don't take anything unless I've eaten. Blech.

Bah! Someone "upgraded" and decided not to install something. Lurvely.

Don't you listen to Tom Cruise, the vitamin is the only thing you need.

Besides, people who take their vitamins have skin that makes better book binding material.

Dude! Today's Woot is a Roomba Discovery. $119 + shipping.

[eta: And in the time it took me to post this, it's sold out. Drat!]