You got to go back to taking down bad guys with your pinky. Throwing them through windows is too hard on your abs.

I'm okay. . . my kitty hasn't come home yet. He was a feral kitten that I took in - admittedly he hasn't lived wild since he was about two months old but I hope that he still has those skills.

I went to the neighborhood where somebody thought they saw him in daylight and it is chockful of nooks and crannies: shrubberies, garages, porches etc where a cat could hide out which is both good - he can find shelter and also bad: how can I ever find him?

I thought we'd adopted a new cat a week or so ago, but he's too feral. He's not litter box trained, but knows to ask to go outside. However, he then stays out for a day or so before coming back to the place he obviously knows as "location of warm, soft place to sleep and humans who are suckers for a cute 'murp?' and a cuddle."

I was hoping for a kitty to take Amon's place, but not so much.

From the Onion - Top Ten Stories of Past 4.5 Billion Years, including Evolution Going Great, Trilobite Reports and Four Or Five Guys Pretty Much Carry Whole Renaissance.

Poor trilobits.

Also, this never occurred to me before, but I agree: Dinosaurs Sadly Extinct Before Invention Of Bazooka

Ergh. We're instituting a new records management system that's going to make me incredibly twitchy. Any e-mail that is not moved into a managed folder—where it becomes undeleteable for a set number of years—will be purged after four months without warning. And we can't create archive folders anymore.

More kitty~ma for you, sumi. I hope he is safe in those nooks and crannies.

Perhaps not as strong a sign of the apocalypse as "dogs and cats living together," but it still ain't right: Toaster looks and acts like a printer

The comments are hilarious:

"PC LOAD WHEAT", WHAT THE F* DOES THAT MEAN?!

Useful advice for the holidays: Drink Lighter-Colored Liquors to Avoid Hangovers

Researchers at Brown University liquored up nearly a hundred study participants with various alcoholic drinks—all the different shades of alcohol were mixed into caffeine-free cola to mask the color and flavor of the particular alcohol—and observed them. All the participants that consumed alcohol slept worse and performed worse on cognitive tests than the participants that didn't, but the participants that drank lighter-colored liquor had less hangover related symptoms the next day.

Overall, bourbon drinkers reported feeling worse than vodka drinkers, rating higher on scales that measure the severity of hangover malaise, including headache, nausea, loss of appetite and thirst. It should come as no surprise that alcohol drinkers said they felt much worse than those who had drunk only tonic water.

One reason for the different effects of vodka and bourbon, Rohsenow says, could be that bourbon contains 37 times more toxic compounds than vodka does, including nasty organic molecules such as acetone, acetaldehyde, tannins and furfural. A good rule of thumb for liquors, she says, is that the clearer they are, the less of these substances they contain.