Now I am finding family photos on Facebook! [link]

Do my relatives have no sense of privacy?!?!

They're in the cookie aisle. Better than cheesecake filling in a bowl but not as good as Sara Lee Cheesecake Bites. Still, worth a trip to the store. I've already eaten half the package.

I love that you were able to answer this. I'm sad the answer sounds so yummy.

Khan did have a wide stance.

this made me literally laugh out loud. luckily, in my empty apartment, rather than at work.

She's taken an IQ test and rated at 128 overall, bright, but not high enough numbers for the gifted program.

Dude! How gifted do you have to be to be in the gifted program?

My parents would never tell us our IQs. They didn't want us to get swelled heads--or taunt each other (considering the SAT score debacles...). These days, I'm just worried that whatever they told me, I'd be disappointed. I'd be all "Wait, what? 128? I thought i was *smart*, man!".

Also, I think I was accused of being outgoing, or at least socially well adjusted, by one of my colleagues last week

Does this speak poorly to the social adjustment of the new colleagues? Oh dear...

A global warming group is having a meeting in Bali prior to the big conference. They are interested enough in the work I've done that they are willing to pay for a plane trick, hotel and meals for me to come.

That is SUPER cool. I wanna go to Bali on someone else's dime!

t's not like NOW is making a huge campaign against that ad, as far as I can tell. They have a whole page of offensive ads:

Some of those ads are ANCIENT! And at least a couple of them they're really stretching to find "offensive" (the Ralph Lauren ad, of a woman leaning back against a tree, with her shirt half open. OK, gratuitous, but offensive?? concentrate on the important stuff!) I have seen that D&G ad before, and I do find it super gang-rape creepy, though.

Ah, so you don't believe "calling bullshit" is a perfectly valid debate technique like I do. I also employ the "eyeroll" and the "What are you on????" techniques.

Heh. It's because I know I'm not good at NOT doing these techniques that I try to stay out of debates...

As a non-white, I submit y'all want a cupcake and not even a muffin. If it scales up to a cake, it's cheating to call it a muffin

I DO want a cupcake. Probably not a blueberry one. But a muffin really is cake.

Troy

I think that you mean McNamara.

I'm not sure how I'm feeling about Nip/Tuck. I kind of called the drug thing with Matt. I remember thinking, " he looks like a junkie ", but I didn't actually think that he was. As long as it doesn't veer into ridiculousness

I was thinking that, too, Vortex, when he came to ask for money the second time. Something about his posture.

Okay, I have just discovered my 79 year old father is on Facebook.

Go, dad of Sue? I feel like this occasion ought to lend itself to some sort of insight along the lines of shoeshine boys trading stock tips heralding the Crash, but I can't quite put it together.

I think that you mean McNamara.

Whoops. Christian and Sean. And the second time Matt came round for the money he looked twitchy.

yeah, that's when I thought of it.

Zeppelins to come to San Francisco: [link]

Airship Ventures, a company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a thing for rigid helium filled airships. They plan to bring a modern carbon composite Zeppelin and offer sightseeing flights around the Bay to the public for $250-500 a ride, perhaps as soon as October 2008.

Scientists find fossil of super-sized bug

Sea scorpion, which measured 8 feet long, was once world's biggest bug

I'm accidentally watching the local news, and now I'm all nervous about flying tomorrow. But it's still the shuttle! They still have their own security area for two flights out per hour! OK, they sometimes let other flights leave from down there, but still -- I've never waited in a line there ever.

I am sadly over Nip/Tuck. It's just not fun anymore.

Agreed, but we're tuning in for Julia's storyline!