Btw, I'm posting rather than working because I had the World's Most Annoying Meeting (TM) this morning and then had a 45 minute break before teaching four classes. I share this fact in case anyone was unclear about my status as Slacker McSlackerpants who has a massive case of end-of-school-year apathy.

I think we need a Mythbusters episode on cow tipping.

You know what's a good thing? I'm still not tired of listening to Swordfishtrombones.

Of course it's an extremely various and complex album with a lot of deep pleasures so it's got that going for it.

Still, I have to go cleanse my palate with Brazilian music occasionally.

Tom's music is very...not Brazilian.

I have had the impression, and I don't know where it came from, that cow-tipping was like snipe hunting - the entertainment comes from being able to convince someone to try it.

David! I need hair advice: I think I want to have layers in my hair again. Right now - my hair is extra long and one length because I've been bored with the cut I've been getting and I've been really, really broke.

But I was thinking that if I want to show off the cool two-tone quality of my hair (it's mostly white on top and black underneath) lots of short layers would be what I want.

Would that work, do you think?

lots of short layers would be what I want.

Would that work, do you think?

Are you keeping the length or going shorter all over? Because the choppy shag that Sally Hershberger is wearing on Shear Genius could definitely show off your two-tonality. You've got to be very careful about the top layers getting too short though else you're in mullet-land.

Oh, I'd want to go short all over.

So, if I went in and said, "I want a choppy shag" - I'd get the look I'm after?

I've always assumed cow-tipping was a myth, because how would you get leverage?

Momentum and surprise.

And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

Nobody expects the Cow Tipping Inquisition

Speaking of cattle, does anyone know how brands are supposed to work? While doing some genealogical research I came across a registry of brands that included my Grandpa's and was astounded by how very alike so many of the brands were - how could they be used to establish ownership if there was a dispute?

On the work bulletin board someone posted that stupid "Boycott gas stations on May 15!" thing that's been snopesed. So I posted a link to snopes. Someone sent me an email thanking me, but I just got one from someone asking me "are you related to someone who works for the oil companies? How do you know it won't work?" So I sent her an email explaining one reason it won't work -- becuase people will buy gas on other days!