people in other places may not have heard about the controversy with the taxis being required (?) to have credit card machines and GPS in them

Is the controversy about expense, or being able to pinpoint their location, or what? The cab company I've called recently has both, but they can't get enough reception right in front of one of my ERs to be able to swipe my card there, which is annoying. At least the paper way worked everywhere. And they always act like I only just mentioned it was credit card--I say so when I call for the cab, and when I tell the driver where to go. Sometimes they're just more interested in arguing with me about my choice (or the location) of destination.

The GPS is controversial due to The Man issues.

Aren't most controversies due to The Man issues?

Noah is being impossibly cute. Literally. His cuteness is impossible. Grace too is being cute. THIS is how babies get you to make more of them.

Aren't most controversies due to The Man issues?

Now I want to think about that more, but I can't, due to brain deadness.

It's either The Man or Money, most of the time, I think, with controversies. Either that or the audience feeling superior.

THIS is how babies get you to make more of them.

My brother and I have a theory that they develop the grin and later giggle skills at just the right time in order to keep the adults from losing their minds. And then the crawling and then the... you get the idea.

A friend's mother said she had the second kid because no way could labour have hurt that much the first time round. That misconception didn't last long.

Would go a way to explain the national average.

CSI this week featured the dining in the dark that we never got a chance to try. Coincidentally as I watch it, it was to be with the same friend as in the first paragraph.

Noah is being impossibly cute. Literally. His cuteness is impossible. Grace too is being cute. THIS is how babies get you to make more of them.

It's so true. And they are in the early days of impossible-to-imagine cutedom. I think of ages 1 to 3 as the Zone of Cuteness. That reminds me, I need to get a proper family portrait done this fall. And I want to finally do Christmas cards this year. Isaac finally fits into the leiderhosen his grandmother bought him.

I have a CSI question...does anyone know who played Michael the blind waiter in this week's ep? I keep thinking I've seen him as a vampire--in Blade on TV, maybe? Or the Underworld series?

eta: Burrell--you know I still have a heap of negatives of you, right?

What a day in college football! USC goes down, and for two weeks in a row Florida has Tiger problems...