In poking the Internet, I stumbled across this blog. Someone took Sims 3 and created a "homeless" father and daughter, and has been narrating their adventures. It think it's particularly funny if you've ever played The Sims, but, even if not, it's still quite entertaining, and oddly touching.

I've never heard it suggested that hairless cats suffer from hair-envy, but from this video it appears this cat does: [link]

Well, they do usually look cranky - kind of a "dude, I'm COLD. I'm supposed to have FUR" look.

I wonder if it's the hair the cat liked or something the guy had used on his hair - a cat my sister had used to really like my skin cream, to the point of licking as much off as I'd let her.

I wonder if it's the hair the cat liked or something the guy had used on his hair

Yeah, probably it was that catnip shampoo the guy used.

I wonder if it's the hair the cat liked or something the guy had used on his hair - a cat my sister had used to really like my skin cream, to the point of licking as much off as I'd let her.

One of my cats was hopelessly addicted to Ben-Gay. It was like kitty cocaine.

Kitteh vs Helicopter

Funny, except I worry about the possibility of kitteh eye injury....

OK, after posting two cat videos, here's one for Hec:

baseball attacked by samurai swordsman

They use a pitching machine. The samurai dude waits until the ball is pitched to draw his sword. Darth Vader would say, "Impressive."

It's time to start calling the anti-immigrant bigotry in this country what it is: racism.

Paging billytea!

'High' Wallabies' Munchies Blamed For Australian Crop Circles

SYDNEY — Wallabies snacking in Tasmania's legally grown opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around in circles, trampling the crops, a state official said.

Tasmania Attorney-General Lara Giddings told a budget hearing Wednesday that she had recently read about the kangaroo-like marsupials' antics in a brief on the state's large poppy industry. Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.

"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," The Mercury newspaper quoted Giddings as telling the hearing. "Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

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A manager for one of two Tasmanian companies licensed to take medicinal products from poppy straw told the newspaper that wildlife and livestock _ including deer and sheep _ that eat the poppies are known to "act weird."

"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," Tasmanian Alkaloids field operations manager Rick Rockliff said.

If I had a nickel for every time this happens.

Physics discussion ends in skateboard attack