Hey, if they do get any good pictures, I'll send them to you for inspiration!

Mexican free-tail bats! That's my bat!

This is hilarious.

Sara, are those the same bats as they have in Austin? Under the bridge by the Statehouse?

Same bats. But they will roost with other species of bats. They're not speciesist.

Bats are cool.

Same bats. But they will roost with other species of bats. They're not speciesist

Bats are cool.

As well as noble, open-minded and well-adjusted!

Too bad about the bug breath, really.

Too bad about the bug breath, really.

They need Binaca for bats.

I have sent an e-mail! It was a really long e-mail, so I feel accomplished. Perhaps I will watch something on my TiVo and then return a phone call to a recruiter.

Asimov's 30 Laws of Robotics

Betcha' didn't know about the other 27, huh?

Here are some of the additional ones:

• A robot must tip its hat in the presence of a lady human being, except where such a display would be construed as a come-on by a jealous male human being, who then might pose a difficulty to the Third Law.

• A robot may not act in such a fashion as would make dogs obsolete, because dogs are less expensive than robots, and robots should be reserved for science things.

• A robot, when given contradictory orders by two human beings, and assuming those orders do not violate the First Law, must decide which order to follow based on which human being has a deeper voice.

• A robot, specifically a big, wide robot, may not pretend to be a refrigerator and then make a scary noise when a human being opens it.

Ugh msbelle, I totally agree it's not an appropriate threat to say to a kid regardless, but to mac esp ugh.

There will also be a DVD release at some point.

Oh, is that why it won't be on the site forever? Okay, ma-ay-be I can accept that. I was all bummed I couldn't just watch me some Dr Horrible whenever I needed a fix.

I think 3 to 4 years old, not exactly sure—old enough that she can run fairly rapidly up and down stairs on her own. It's not constant, but she does have bouts of shrieking for brief intervals several times an hour from morning to about 11 at night. She's not crying or sobbing or arguing with her parents, they're multiple sharp shrieks like Newt from Aliens, one after another. Something like autism or some form of retardation does seem likely to me—I'll ask the building managers about it the next time I see them.

Ah, so it's not tantrums then. And she does this daily? In that case I'd say that while intermittent loud shrieks are not, in and of themselves, unusual in a 3 to 4 year old, they aren't the kind of behavior you want to encourage as a parent. You've seen her, my guess is your hunch about her developmental issues is good.