I was totally already planning to listen to it on my way to work tomorrow.

I can't believe I still haven't been to Forbidden Island, though its opening does basically coincide with Matilda's arrival.

The equation does not work so well, 'tis true. Especially since getting back from the Next County Over is... difficult at night. Nigh impossible. Sucktastic. Etcetera.

Maybe we could try to go around a dinnertime one weekend? I would like to see this place.

It's the annual Burlesque fling with lots of sexy sexy retro girls wiggling their bits.

I approve of this.

Wait - Fleet Week is this weekend, isn't it? (Which would be why I saw the Blue Angels during my lunchtime run.) And the Tiki Bar Crawl will be hitting Bamboo Hut? Yeah, that should be a good time. Arrests galore.

The next big organization that might go bankrupt due to the financial crisis? Iceland.

Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland's currency, is in freefall and is rated just above those of Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan. One of the country's three independent banks has been nationalised, another is asking customers for money, and the discredited government and officials from the central bank have been huddled behind closed doors for three days with still no sign of a plan. International banks won't send any more money and supplies of foreign currency are running out...

When Bush was inaugurated in 2000, the Onion headline was, "Bush: 'Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over'"

There was an extremely depressing website linked to a while back which took this article and added links to all the items in it which had come true. Practically everything but the photo caption was underlined blue.

Anyone know where this is?

Carrot Top? Gallagher? Rich Little?

Whoa. You just made me feel bad for Rich Little. Dude.

The Question of the Day: How do you airlift hundreds of stranded penguins?

More than a thousand juvenile Patagonian penguins have washed up on the northern shores of Brazil this year for reasons scientists have yet to comprehend fully. Over the weekend, hundreds of the stranded birds were airlifted to the southernmost tip of the country and released into the South Atlantic Ocean, close to their native territory. How exactly do you get that many penguins on a plane?

You put them in crates, 23 birds to a box. On Friday, the Brazilian government's environmental authority loaded 399 Magellanic penguins onto a C-130 Hercules transport plane on loan from the Air Force. The penguins left from a marine-life treatment center in Salvador, in the northern state of Bahia, where most of them had been living for the past two months. (Some 70 birds joined them from a treatment center in Vitoria; they were transported in the cargo hold of a commercial flight.) Before boarding the military plane, the penguins were fed, watered, given antifungal medication, and tagged with bands for future identification. Then they were flown down to another rehabilitation center in the southern city of Pelotas. Accompanying them on the 5.5 hour flight were a handful of military personnel and approximately 10 veterinarians and biologists from various environmental organizations.

I feel better knowing that question has been answered....

Probably this, aurelia? [link]

The next big organization that might go bankrupt due to the financial crisis? Iceland.

That's too bad. Iceland's nice.

British healthcare is so much awesomer than ours; even their hospital signs are awesome!

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Thanks, Jesse.

I linked to a different article about the penguins being taken in by kind brazilians earlier! Glad to hear they're being taken care of still.

So far, can't tell if the feliway diffuser is doing any good. Devi's usual witching hour brought stalkery still tonight. But they are sleeping now. It took a long while for Devi to not be psycho about MK, but at least I didn't worry so much about him getting hurt (he didn't like it, but he could take her and when he'd had enough, he menaced and she ran.) Loki is half her size. I'm half considering a screen door to the bedroom (which I recognize as insane) to increase exposure without contact.