Overstimulation is an ugly thing. I figure he missed out on Kitten Social Skills 101.

Tomorrow may well be my last day without Fox for a while, since my local Fox affiliate is apparently owned by a jackass, and the local cable station is being petulant.

If Fox doesn't stream "Drive," we'll be setting up a tape tree for me, right? Because I am loved? Even if I'm not cute enough to be sponsored?

I'm sure there will be tapes. And online streaming.

Betsy - my girlfriends cat does that. It'll sit being pretty, and then just BITE you.

The smear campaign between the two entities is just so darn annoying. At first it was amusing to see the cable company advertise on all the other channels about how the affiliate owner just didn't care about "us." And then watch the affiliate run commercials about how other companies have paid their fees, and my cable company won't "listen to reason."

But now I've got sites and stuff that will need updating, and I won't be able to watch the shows with everyone else. Or the promos for the shows!

Yes, it's all about me. Why won't these multimillion-dollar organizations realize that?

95 new in here and it's (mostly) all about the twins. I love that.

We have a "It takes a village.." banner in the office at school. Each time I see it I think, "Yep the entire school raises one kid. The other 2699 of you are screwed."

I like this. “It takes a village” is the Rorschach card of child development theories—it’s so vague that it can be put to use for any purpose and it attracts a lot of, uh, creative thinkers.

A couple of years ago I published a paper (about twins!) filled with tedious equations and the sort of dubious conclusions that you squeeze out of tedious equations. We tried to subdivide effects on kid’s behavior from individual environments, family environments, and school and community environments. The community proved to be unexpectedly strong, so, to be cute, we called the paper ‘It does take a village.’ The paper itself has been justifiably ignored by scholars, but the title has taken on a life of its own, attracting crackpots who are certain that the paper would confirm their very innovative views of human nature, if only they didn’t have to work their way through the tedious equations. One very dedicated person had it worked out all the way to "It takes a galaxy."

Well, actually, it is about you, as you're the consumer they supply. The companies should mediate, and get their shit together. I used to work for the UK cable company Telewest, and they did a similar thing with MTV a while ago. MTV started airing adverts about how bad Telewest are, so Telewest took them off the air because of those adverts. It was all about profit margins.

A couple of years ago I published a paper (about twins!) filled with tedious equations and the sort of dubious conclusions that you squeeze out of tedious equations.

The father of the cute little baby twins in my life is a bio-statictician math dude and I bet he'd LOVE to read that!

If there is no online streaming, I think someone should re-enact TV's hit Drive for me via finger-puppet theater clips on YouTube. You know, so no one's blatantly violating copyright by posting the clips from the show. Because that would be wrong.