According to the Stateman, she died at home under hospice care.

Molly Ivins died? Oh, no! She's so awesome, I had no idea she was ill.

Goddamnit.

What Consuela said. That's truly crappy news.

Don't bother asterisking your "fuck," Theodosia--Molly would have just said it out loud! I think I'm going to go home and read one of her collections that I have on the shelf. Damn, I'll have to rename one of my bookmarks here at work--it links to her columns at Workingforchange.com, but now I'll just have to have it link to the list of columnists instead.

Didn't go swimming today. Did 30 minutes on the treadmill instead

I just got back from signing up at the park district's fitness center/indoor pool! They were having a $99/3 months special that ended today, so I took advantage of it. I'm hoping I can get up early enough to use their lap pool on Saturday morning (6-7:30 am dedicated to just lap swimming; classes start in that same pool at 8:00). They also have a more kid-friendly pool that had a bunch of moms and babies in it when I was there at 6:00--that one also has a "lazy river" effect in part of it, which looks pretty cool to check out. The fitness center part has a bunch of ellipticals and treadmills and a few less stationary and recumbent bikes, as well as weight machines and free weights. Not a bad setup for a community park district!

The Texas Observer: [link]

(holy hell, I can too type!)

One of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "devices" was found as far back as Jan 17th.

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Here are a bunch of pictures: [link]

It's just a flat circuit board with some LEDs on it. Plus a few microchips, resistors, capacitors, etc. Just by looking at it it should be obvious it's not dangerous.

Oh, and the character's name is Ignignokt. I'll probably have to stop wearing my t-shirt if I don't want people thinking I'm a terrorist....

eta: Pictures of it on a bridge in Boston:

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Sheryl, that is totally true. about H:LOTS. And I feel a real sense of loss that one of my heroes died.

In D&D, who would win in a fight between a Level One Wizard and a house cat?

Usually the house cat wins.

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Dunno about the actual odds, but A cat has 2 hit points, and 3 attacks per round for a full attack action, at +4/+4/-1 for 1 damage each. If our 1st level Wizard loses initiative (very possible against a 15 Dex cat), and misses with his first attack (possible with 0 BAB against an AC14 cat), he will be attacked six times, four of which will hit 70% of the time.

On average, he’ll be hit by three of the claws and one bite for 4 damage, which takes him to 0 HP. If the wizard is unarmed, and taking a -4 nonproficiency penalty to punch the cat, then he will almost certainly die.

This is probably why casters are famous for being cat-friendly.

Then someone ran a computer simulation....

From Molly Ivin's NYT obit:

"She cut an unusual figure in The Times newsroom, wearing blue jeans, going barefoot and bringing in her dog, whose name was an expletive."

Which one? "This is my poodle, Cocksucker." "This is my husky, Motherfucker." "This is my German Shepard, Fuckyou."

tommyrot: [link]

You know, when Bones started tonight I had this wild thought... Is Epps going to get Cam? She had the sweet Tim-esque kiss with Booth, and now, lo and behold, it might actually be happening. However, this isn't a Tim show, so I suspect she'll pull through .