Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


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.


Jesse - Apr 23, 2009 6:46:04 am PDT #16503 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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?


Frankenbuddha - Apr 23, 2009 6:49:49 am PDT #16504 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

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

Or sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.