My favorite bugs are the meat-eating wasps around us. Hubby and I like to go to friends' cook-outs and put out a slab of steak or whatever, then watch the wasps come up and start stripping the meat. They very tidily snip off a sliver of meat, roll it up, then carry it away. Our friends' invariably freak out, then settle down to watch. We've spent hours feeding the meat-eating wasps.
I once got a dramatic 9-year-old to stop freaking out about bees by pointing out that they're only flying around her because they want to see if she has pollen, and if she lets them sniff her without panicking, they'll see she's not a flower and go about their business. After a bit she very proudly sat still while three bees examined her then flew off. Of course, her mother ruined it by running up and flapping at the bees, shrieking. But the girl gave me a look of "My mom is over-reacting, isn't she," and I nodded. So at least one girl was hopefully spared from incipient Fluffbrain.
xpost with tech:
A million blogs have linked to this, so I finally watched it:
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work
Pretty damn funny, but NSFW due to all the swearing....
I think I'm waaaay overdue on taking my eye prescription over to LensCrafters--computer reading is causing my eyes to really water today, as if someone is constantly blowing smoke into them. I have to wait until payday to buy glasses anyway, but constantly wiping my eyes is already a pain.
It's two hours since I've had lunch and I am hungry again. Also, today needs to move faster.
Ha! I love the way the faces go from puzzled to smiling as they go higher. I think that would make my day if I saw it on my way to/from work.
grim to puzzled to big smiles. So cool . I make my story time kids give me a high 5 as they leave. -- The ones that have no idea get such a kick out of it by the end.
High five escalator!
Aw! That was my old stop! Go Rob!
then she not only lied about it under oath, she got one of her employees to lie as well
To be exact she lied not under oath. If she said exactly what she was convicted of saying she lied by omission (which both morally is lying, and legally is a crime - deliberate deception meeting both moral and legal standards). But our knowledge of what was said comes from a notebook scribbled by interviewer. No third party, no tape recording. I really think conviction for something like this should require more stringent evidence than taking an interested party's word. I'm not really sympathetic to Stewart because on the whole I suspect she did exactly what she was convicted of. But I'm troubled by how weak the evidence on which someone can be convicted for this. Then again I remember lobbying alongside an ACLU lawyers against the criminal code reform which included this provision specifically on grounds that this sort of thing was likely to happen.
