I heard a reporter on NPR the other day saying you could totally live in Bangkok with no impact of any of the brouhaha.

Happy Birthday, Lillian!

She is such a cutie.

Yeah, it's not a place where violence is an undercurrent.

Ooh. Gud's post is halfway to 30,000.

30,000 is the new 10,000, right? So 15,000 is the new 5,000.

Happy birthday to the Squeak! As bon notes, she'd easily lap the other contestants of American's Next Top Lemur Model.

Happy Birthday Lillian! She is seriously cute!

Cubs Opening Day: Goat Head Found Hanging Outside Wrigley Field

CHICAGO - As if the rain and cold weather threatening the Chicago Cubs' home opener against the Colorado Rockies weren't enough, there's another goat involved _ a dead one this time.

Chicago police say they found the severed head of a goat outside Wrigley Field early Monday morning, about 12 hours before the scheduled game.

Officers said they were treating the incident as a prank, since the same thing happened last year.

Goat and sheep's heads are available at a number of ethnic butcher shops in Chicago.

The goats' heads are presumably a reference to the alleged "goat curse" placed on the Cubs in 1945 by tavern owner William Sianis after authorities would not allow him to bring his pet goat into Wrigley Field for a World Series game.

Oh yeah -- bad management hates on QA because it exposes all the flaws, which they'd shortsightedly prefer to ignore. So one of my major warning signs that an IT department is going down the tubes is when they can QA.

And yet, they also get the largest share of the blame if something makes it out the door that souldn't have. Even if both SA and SE were behind schedule, but the release date didn't change. Not that I speak from bitter experience or anything...

Laundry Retrieved from Retriever

When Bailey the retriever went to the veterinary clinic in Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England, the doctor thought he had a tumor. What veterinarian Keith Moore found inside the dog was five golf gloves, ten socks, one stocking, and part of a towel!

“Vets obviously do a fair number of foreign object removals but I doubt I will ever see anything like this again in my career.

“Even for us, from a vet’s point of view, it was pretty amazing.

“It was like doing a magic trick. We were just pulling out one sock after another,” he joked.

Moore believes Bailey must have been eating laundry for years to accumulate such a mass. The dog has fully recovered from surgery and acts like a puppy again.

DIY Cuddly Bantha