And yet, there are people saying that you shouldn't have your kids vaccinated.

The stupid, it burns.

Due to swine flu outbreaks within the community, no kids allowed and temps are taken at the door on visiting. Seriously. So all the people who think that Swine Flu is BS, 40% of the cases are healthy people with no underlying respiratory issues.

Last week when we toured the maternity ward where I'll be delivering, they said that they are not allowing anyone under 16 (or maybe it was 18) in due to H1N1. I'm working from home this week because there are 2 co-workers who are sick and are NOT staying home. My OB and high-risk OB both have me paranoid about swine flu and unfortunately the vaccination isn't here yet so I'm not taking any chances if I can help it. Us preggies (hi, CV!) have to watch ourselves. Not that others don't, but we are in the high-risk category.

Here's a work-safe pickmeup link:

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Hi Glam, congrats! I'm waiting for the H1N1 vaccine to arrive as well. I got my regular flu shot at my last appointment. I don't spend a lot of time in public, but my mom is in school and she has become comically careful since I became pregnant trying to avoid bringing home any germs to me. However, there is no vaccine yet in Belgium, and my BF is a train conductor who deals with the general public all day every day, so hopefully he'll stay healthy - he's coming to visit in 12 days (not that I am counting!) and it would suck if I picked up something from him.

Monkeys Fall Into ‘Uncanny Valley,’ Just Like Humans

Monkeys are freaked out by almost-but-not-quite-real depictions of themselves. That tendency is well documented in humans, but has never before been seen in another species.

To test their preference, researchers showed macaque monkeys real pictures, digital caricatures and realistic reconstructions of other monkey faces. To the latter, the macaques repeatedly averted their eyes.

“The visual behavior of the monkeys falls into the uncanny valley just the same as human visual behavior,” wrote Princeton University evolutionary biologists Shawn Steckinfinger and Asif Ghazanfar in a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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It remains to be seen how the monkeys would react to a simian version of The Polar Express.

Heh.

$1.5M Russian SUV Features Diamonds, Whale Penis Leather

Whale penis leather interior. That's all you really need to know about the $1.5 million Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition. Yes, the diamond-encrusted white gold gauges and gold-plated bulletproof windows are impressive, but seriously, whale penis leather interior.

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We have a lot of questions about this car, most of them whale penis leather-related....

Fernet maybe the answer.

It frequently is.

Oh dear. I read "leather" as "lather" at first. Which is so much worse.

Ewww...

You know, getting an email for an all hands meeting 2 hours before it is scheduled is not the way to start a morning.