I went to see All Shook Up at the Orpheum tonight. It was great fun, sort of a mix of Bye Bye Birdie and Twelfth Night set to Elvis songs. Which the producers have to have brass balls to bring into Memphis. Who knew Susan Anton could sing? (Can't act to save her life, mind you, but the lady has pipes.) I liked most of the music, though I think they botched the rendition of my favorite Elvis standard, "Burning Love." "Devil in Disguise" probably made up for it—they rocked the house down on that number.

Also I parked a mile away from the theater to get in today's exercise, and was rewarded by miraculously avoiding any panhandlers.

Actually, not having a car doesn't make a dog a bad idea.

Me and Bartleby = 5 years so far. Me and car = 0

Friends, pet taxis and neighborhood vets. It works.

Via Making Light

The Reverse of the Hammock

"Which there's a corpse on the mainmast and it's bad luck and it's eaten half your coffee beans, sir!"

Jack Aubrey snapped immediately into consciousness; a man with his years of sea-experience must be able to awaken in a moment. It must be admitted that such a man might occasionally fall asleep in a moment, as well, and such indeed proved the case on this particular occasion.

Extra quotation mark that kept link from pointing to the wrong place eliminated.

Gar, your hammock link doesn't go to the right place.

sarameg - i've been sending the ma~~~ but alittle estra to you.

annual potatot party. Ineed the the caffine to combat the excesses of the evening therefore: to quote connie

It's never too late for caffeine.

math/biology and the buffyverse

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It looks like, from a cursory glance at that link, they are ignoring the whole "There's a whole sucking thing, mostly they just kill you" effect in calculating the growth of the vampire population.

Yeah. There need to be a few more numbers in there -- it needs to be how many people each vampire kills each month, and how many people each vampire turns each month. Which would make for some kind of interesting equations -- a predator/prey relationship is pretty easy to model - it's in every intro-level differential eqations textbook - but the predator/prey/turning would add in all kinds of weirdness. Hmm.

Don't forget the existence of a predator of the predators upon the predator/prey ratio, too.

All the lovely talk of dogs -- last night I caught up with Mythbusters who were examining dog 'myths' like teaching old dogs new tricks, methods of escaping from bloodhounds and evading guard dogs. The doggies were adorable, and everybody had a lot of fun, especially the dogs.

It's definitely an episode that I'd recommend for people who don't follow the show regularly.

It's a good thing that the idea of "Turn two; the rest are food" never really caught on....