Another contender for Odd Headline o' the Day: Study Reveals How Flies Mate by Shaving Them with a Laser

With extra added bonus picture of a naked Jeff Goldblum as The Fly....

Michal Polak and Arash Rashed pretty much man-scaped the male flies with a laser to see how it affected their sexual performance. The spines themselves were too small to cut by hand. They did it with such surgical precision that they could cut off a third of each millimetere-long spine, or the whole darn thing.

As it turns out, the spines are like biological Velcro. A partial shave did nothing, but getting a full blown Brazilian wax reduced the odds of mating to around 20-percent.

Two of my co-workers drive in from Grayslake, about 35 miles away, which normally takes them an hour (they leave home at 5:30, get in at 6:30, and then they leave at 3:00 pm). Today, they didn't get on the road until 5:50, but then didn't get in until 7:30. They're thinking about leaving earlier than usual this afternoon to beat some of the traffic (and snow) home.

Here our groupon is $20 for $60 worth of photo books. I bought one.

I got one too, Suzi, since it's an online company! I am thinking of having one made for Christine, our day care provider, who has been with Noah forever when he goes to school in the fall. I'm not sure how I'll do it. But I bet I can get pictures of her kid.... hmmmm...

I have noticed that both the SO & I are far less congested since we started using the kettle on the woodstove. (Which unlike the fireplace is supposed to have a hot surface up there. Mine is a dual level so I can have a cooking surface and a warming surface both. Loves it, I do.) I also haven't had a single nosebleed since then, when usually I have them regularly, even when I try to hydrate throughout the day.

Although it's also easier for me to hydrate now, what with the constantly boiling water in the kettle. Mmm, tea.

I did want what I had ready for lunch. Only I now also want it again. And after yesterday's big dinner, and not having worked out yet today, I'm pretty sure that's a bad idea.

I'm getting a ton done in the office today. But now I've run up against something I need to ask the SO about, and of course he's just left the house.

For the thrift store.

To buy disco clothes.

For church.

Hee. We're covering "We Are Family" this Saturday. Fun, fun. Assuming the leader gets home. He appears to be more or less stuck in the weather, too. Our weather is fine here. Lovely and cold, but clear. I need to restack the woodpile, I think.

Ohhhh, Kat, that sounds like a wonderful gift. I was really impressed with the albums I have seen.

While I'm not happy about being sick but I'm glad I'm not driving on the icy roads today.

Man, I can't imagine losing eating and drinking. My appetite has been shot all to hell by nausea this week, but that's not the same thing, by a far measure.

Being a babyface could be good for your health.

GOOD FUCKING LORD. British Columbia Transit System has the worst fucking website for the fucking bus tickets for the Olympics EVER. I just spent 45 minutes trying to figure out how to navigate it and I clicked a mystery link and finally got to where I needed to purchase tickets for the Olympics.

YES THE OLYMPICS WHICH WE ARE GOING TO NEXT MONTH. Ahem. I'm kinda excited.

Fat Chance Belly Dance are awesome. Somewhat dogmatic about their particular flavor (American Tribal Style), but definitely worth checking out. And very welcoming of all body types, even in their troupe, which is not always the case.

I would suck suck SUCK at Chronology. I have played Milles Bournes, but it's been a very long time. I was that brat who would quit games when losing, stomping off and crying that it wasn't fair. I've gotten much better about that. Although I'm still smarting from a loss at Egyptian Rat Screw from a couple of years ago. That's my favorite card game - combo of reflexes and luck, very fast paced and exciting.

Ooh, that is exciting, Kat!

Being a babyface could be good for your health.

I feel like it's got to be the other way around.

Top Ten “Anti-Christian Attacks” of 2009

With commentary.

Gary Cass’s Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) lists the top ten attacks on Christians in 2009. Surprise, surprise . . . most have nothing to do with physical attacks or any infringement upon civil rights, but rather defeats in the Christian Agenda.

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And finally, we end our countdown with an act far more heinous than any Cabinet appointment, or arrest, or even double homicide. That’s right, I’m talking about making it illegal to incite violence against homosexuals.

1. The Federal Hate Crimes Bill that attacks religious liberty and freedom of speech. For the first time in our history ministers are vulnerable to investigation and prosecution for telling the truth about homosexuality.

False.

Ministers are quite safe if they tell the truth about homosexuality. If they instead say that homosexuals are all pedophiles eager to give congregants’ little boys AIDS, they’re not safe.

They can say what their imaginary friend’s book tells them about homosexuality. If they instead urge their congregants to go stone homosexuals with stones that they die, they’re not safe.

See the difference?

If you got this far, I figured you would.

That’s right, according to CADC, expecting Christians not to incite violence against people who don’t share their beliefs is an Anti-Christian Act, and one far worse than murder! Why? Simple.

Murders make martyrs, and martyrs further the Christian Agenda. It doesn’t matter if the murderer was insane . . . they’ll take any convenient martyr.

Telling people they can’t use a minority within society as a scapegoat for fundraising and vote-gathering and lynch-mob-rousing purposes slows down the Christian Agenda. After all, without the ability to spout lies about homosexuals, how will they raise hundreds of millions for their political candidates? By promoting the merits of their own ideas??