THE WIKI HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE IN 200 WORDS OR LESS

But should stuff humans did count in the abbreviated history of the universe?

I'm with Vortex just doing your job at the counter isn't enough- and it doesn't really take much to get a tip. Things like telling me a muffin might be stale is enough.

I think I like this faildog the best: [link]

I totally sympathize with the dog here, though: [link]

I'm pretty sure that this one doesn't fail at all, at least not in his own terms: [link]

amych - I agree. Clearly that dog won.

That article on dim wimmin is deeply annoying. I assume she's deliberately trying to bait, right? Because it sounds so clever to bag on your own sex.

I skipped to the end because I am totally having a Monday, and I'm not even freaking at work. So far today, I lost my bus pass (on 3rd day of month.) Got overcharged $18 by incompetent cashier and then had to wait inline forever to get it fixed. Somehow managed to break the latch on my screen door (which I discovered after I had already been to the hardware store.). I'm too late to get to yoga ontime. And I'm desperately trying not to have the headache I had yesterday.

Several hours later (sorry, there was a grocery run in there):

Well, the first thing you have to do is define suicidal. [...] I'm not sure from your second paragraph where you stand on that, Nutty. Are men equivalently crying for help? But just picking the dumb method?

I define "suicidal" as a big tent. The stereotype is that males endure and endure until they crack, and off themselves with little warning, while females ideate in public ways (rehearsal, discussion, etc.) before the attempt. I think that stereotype is falling apart in this modern era, and I can't say that the handgun method is chosen for its certainty, for its spectacular statement-making, for the vague cultural belief that it makes it all over quickly, etc. I believe hanging is equally distributed across the sexes, and that's not so hot for leaving a pretty corpse; so I'm not sure what that says about popular female methods.

In happier news, and related to aforementioned grocery run, isn't fresh mozzarella great? With salt and basil and plenty of balsamic vinegar.

That's so not a left cross. A left hook, more like.

My brain is full of crossword puzzles. All I could think when I read this was, "Left jab" was 1 Down in the finals yesterday! @@

I wish I could remember where I read it, but I read something about a certain amount of bridge jumpers being impulse suicides, but I can't remember the context. I do know that the city engineers claim that our bridges can't withstand the weight how suicide barriers, and they have been place only on the part of the bridge that crosses over the Navy Dockyard because the military is tired of cleaning up after people who throw themselves off of the bridge over land.