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.
Zombies! Hyena people! Snyder!
Student ,'Touched'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Callaluna - Oct 14, 2009 4:01:12 am PDT #13773 of 30001
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2009 4:08:34 am PDT #13774 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2009 4:11:32 am PDT #13775 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
$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....
smonster - Oct 14, 2009 4:11:39 am PDT #13776 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Fernet maybe the answer.
It frequently is.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 14, 2009 4:15:44 am PDT #13777 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh dear. I read "leather" as "lather" at first. Which is so much worse.
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2009 4:16:50 am PDT #13778 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ewww...
sarameg - Oct 14, 2009 4:16:55 am PDT #13779 of 30001
You know, getting an email for an all hands meeting 2 hours before it is scheduled is not the way to start a morning.
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2009 4:20:51 am PDT #13780 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Lee - Oct 14, 2009 4:24:40 am PDT #13781 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Ugh, Sarameg. I hope it is a happy news meeting.
tommyrot - Oct 14, 2009 4:26:22 am PDT #13782 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Good luck, Sarameg.