A "cat" in a hat, for tommyrot:

D'aww.

Feral child: [link]

The Telegraph profiles Oxana Malaya, a 23-year-old woman in Ukraine who, between the ages of 3 and 8, was raised by a pack of dogs. She currently lives in a home for the mentally disabled and has been featured in documentaries on the Discovery Channel and Channel Four. Apparently, she can still show eerily canine-like behaviors, including running on all fours, panting, and barking.

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"Her language is odd. She speaks flatly as though it's an order. There is no cadence or rhythm or music to her speech, no inflection or tone. But she has a sense of humour. She likes to be the centre of attention, to make people laugh. Showing off is quite a surprising skill when you consider her background. In the film, Miss Malaya looks unco-ordinated and tomboyish. When she walks, you notice her strange stomping gait and swinging shoulders, the intermittent squint and misshapen teeth. Like a dog with a bone, her first instinct is to hide anything she is given. She is only 1.52 metres tall but when she fools about with her friends, pushing and shoving, there is a palpable air of menace and brute strength. The oddest thing is how little attention she pays to her pet mongrel. "Sometimes, she pushed it away," says Ms Fry. "She was much more orientated to people."

It's weird how much of what we consider "human nature" is socialized in at an early age....

I got woken up.

why?

I got woken up.

why?

You were visited by the opposite of the Sandman?

You were visited by the opposite of the Sandman?

The Seawoman?

Paging Dr. Billytea!

Does he know about this?

This fish has an absolutely perfect name: the Rosy Lipped Batfish. It isn't much better in Latin, either. Ogcocephalus porrectus. No wonder it's scowling.

[link]

My God, the thing is freakish-looking. Looks like the result of a second-grader trying to draw an alien animal on some other planet....

I woke up because I had an 8AM conference call. I told them I would call in from bed. And I DID. But then I thought "should I go to work?" and I decided the answer was NO. So I told them I'd be working from home. I think they're cheering, because yesterday I drove them crazy with coughing.

STORM!

In other bad-week news, thousands of people in my neighborhood (kinda) have had no power all week. Good LORD. At least it cooled off some after Monday/Tuesday.

Yeah, this amazes me. Are we in the freaking dark ages? I feel like ConEd is not getting enough pressure about this.

Bizarro Sandman can EAT IT, and so can SeaWoman.

Good Call, Meara!