Also, if anyone's planning on going to Payless Shoes today, here's a coupon for 50% off the entire purchase.

I'd sure be more likely to remember to feed the meter if it did something interesting, like light up, or play a tune, or on every hundredth coin, spit out a couple.

The Bagel Dome sounds cool, but really, you can get the same lasting effect if you just remember to put your bagels in an air-tight ziplock baggie.

It does take pennies, also nickels and dimes. You do not see the coins. It is a Duncan Meter. Looks to be like the one on this site, upper left. [link]

Periodic table

Love it.

Another contender for Odd Headline o' the Day: B.C. police seek serial groin-kicker after series of attacks

LANGLEY, B.C. -- Police in Langley are investigating after a woman kicked a man in the groin so hard he lost a testicle -- the latest in a series of similar assaults.

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Mr. Clark was walking in the Brookswood area of Langley in early September when he passed his assailant on the sidewalk.

"I was looking down and then I took a passing glance and saw her walk up to me," he said.

That's when the young woman inexplicably kicked him in the groin hard enough to send one of his testicles into his abdomen.

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It wasn't until he woke up afterwards that he discovered the doctors were wrong - the force of the assault had caused his testicle to rupture. It had to be removed and will be replaced by a prosthetic before Christmas.

"My doctors say I will still be able to have children," Mr. Clark said. "But at 22 that's not something I want a stranger, this woman, to decide."

Embarrassed by the situation, Mr. Clark didn't go to the police until nearly four weeks after the attack.

Constables have told him there have been three or four similar assaults on other men, Mr. Clark said.

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The suspect is described as a Caucasian woman, in her late teens or early 20s. She was between five-foot-five and five-foot-seven and 130 pounds with a slim build and brown hair.

If you liked the Periodic Table....

Periodic taxi

Hil, yesterday you mentioned Hell Houses, I think (I can't find the post - I am highly distracted by dissertation crap). The local radio has just been discussing how these are now being imported into Britain. Apparently opinion is split in church communities over whether they're a good or bad thing. Weirdness.

I doubt I'll get the chance to give sweets to Trick or Treaters, as we don't get many, and I'm out on Halloween anyway (seeing a horror movie at a drive-in!), but I'll get hold of some chocolate in case any kids come in the afternoon. Much fun all round.

Not the greatest day, I started off going to a blood drive and couldn't give blood because they couldn't figure out if my medication--flecainide acetate--was safe for giving blood or not.

Company stock is pretty down due to missing some guidance. Still profitable, but if the market doesn't like, then it's bad news. So I'm stressing about that.

Also I got a sort of nasty email from my BIL and I made the mistake of forwarding it to my wife and she made a bigger deal of it than I wanted to. So, I'm feeling bad about that.

Stupid ducks.

I may never work again...

Oh, ugh. Sorry, Gud.

(pssst, hey! Gud's day? You're supposed to be a Friday, not a Monday. Try to keep up, will you?)

My idea is that I should buy a vintage parking meter.

Phooey. I was hoping to see something really vintage (now I'm wondering what an Art Deco parking meter would look like). Still, not completely useless; I've heard of people buying those and using them as headstones and grave markers.

eta: Deco parking meters? Pretty!