And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Apr 23, 2009 6:03:37 am PDT #16493 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Emo Batman! The Mopiest Batman Tattoo You’ll Ever See - Geeky Tattoo

Ever wonder what Batman would look if someone hit him with an emo stick? Well, the particularly-inquisitive three of you who answered in the affirmative are in luck. J.J. sent me an awesome photo and description of her Batman tattoo that are worth one-thousand words.

My Bat is classic Jim Lee-era comic style, blue and grey, long pointy ears. He’s clutching his cape like a security blanket, biting his lip whilst crying, and listening to his iPod on very large audiophile headphones. He is overwhelmingly sad. His parents are gone, and he only has the gadgets (and Alfred) to keep him warm. Sometimes he listens to Dashboard Confessional, and the sobbing just won’t end.


Gudanov - Apr 23, 2009 6:06:02 am PDT #16494 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

After getting friended by one of my good friends in High School, I have swept through my high school in Facebook with mixed results. I've also realized there are only a handful of people in high school that I really remember well and am really curious about. Mike Reed, a really good friend. Cory Koontz, another good friend. Blake, another good friend. Lisa Cunningham, first girl I every really sort of made out with never formally dated her but was kinda my de facto girlfriend the summer after my senior year. Erik Shutz, a friend I carpooled to school with. Holly Haahr, friend, fellow math club and college bowl member,generally interesting person, first girl who ever kissed me, should have gone out with her but didn't for stupid reasons. Other math club members would be interesting to find as well, but I only remember a couple of them. Only two of them friended right now.


lisah - Apr 23, 2009 6:10:46 am PDT #16495 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

lisah, yikes! How do you deal with something like that??? (The plumbing, not the move.)

I think she called her homeowner's insurance and I don't know if they arranged it or not but there is a company that deals in cleaning up such home disasters that came and was sucking out water from the house for hours and hours. She's staying in a hotel. I don't know if the insurance pays for it all or what.

Woo hoo! I am pretty sure it is time to stop cleaning for Chicago Bob. As a guest, I mean.

haha, yeah, but really it's that I hadn't done any cleaning (other than the unavoidable dishes, litterboxes) since friends were staying with me a couple of weeks ago. And he is allergic to the cats so the least I can do is vacuum!


Steph L. - Apr 23, 2009 6:20:06 am PDT #16496 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Sometimes he listens to Dashboard Confessional, and the sobbing just won’t end.

Ahahaha! Cry more, emo superhero.


Steph L. - Apr 23, 2009 6:22:27 am PDT #16497 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The Batman cake, however, is AWESOME. In a totally WTF, buttercream-frosting way.


Gudanov - Apr 23, 2009 6:23:08 am PDT #16498 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

The Batcake is pretty awesome.


bon bon - Apr 23, 2009 6:25:44 am PDT #16499 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

After staying up late to take a stool sample from a cat that normally goes at 11 pm, I fell asleep and can't tell which cat went between 6:30 am and 8 am. Now I'm exhausted because of cat poo!


tommyrot - Apr 23, 2009 6:27:02 am PDT #16500 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog

A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world's first transgenic dog. She and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light.

A team led by Byeong-Chun Lee of Seoul National University in South Korea created the dogs by cloning fibroblast cells that express a red fluorescent gene produced by sea anemones.

Lee and stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang were part of a team that created the first cloned dog, SnuppyMovie Camera, in 2005. Much of Hwang's work on human cells turned out to be fraudulent, but Snuppy was not, an investigation later concluded.

This new proof-of-principle experiment should open the door for transgenic dog models of human disease, says team member CheMyong Ko of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. "The next step for us is to generate a true disease model," he says.


Gudanov - Apr 23, 2009 6:29:10 am PDT #16501 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

How the hell did we ever get along without fluorescent beagles?


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 23, 2009 6:39:41 am PDT #16502 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I have a worrying feeling that this is somehow going to end in Laser Cats.