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, 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!

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

Ahahaha! Cry more, emo superhero.

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

The Batcake is pretty awesome.

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!

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.

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

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

Hey, is Sue (or any other Canadian) around? I'm trying to find some general information about federal funding for nonprofits, and it's haaaard! Any ideas?