In interesting local news.

This is my favorite part of the story:

police say they found more weapons in her arsenal, including a slingshot and a bucket of rocks.

A. Bucket. Of. Rocks.

It could really only be better if she had been wearing a "Throw rocks at boys" shirt in her mug shot.

A. Bucket. Of. Rocks.

I'm gonna pretend they were very nice rocks. Like, sparkly and/or sharp-edged.

At Orrick they had catered lunch for all attorneys. (They called it The Trough.) It was cheaper to feed them and keep the in-house most of the time. All staff had a free array of bagels in the morning (and a commercial conveyer toaster) plus PB, a variety of schmears and fruit.

At the last placed I temped regularly they had the Fruit Guys bring in a big box of fruit on Monday and that was snacked on all week. That was nice and actually changed my eating habits where I'd have a banana or apple at 3pm instead of a cookie.

police say they found more weapons in her arsenal, including a slingshot and a bucket of rocks.

You know, they should make a movie about her, and show it double-billed with Kick Ass

Dr Seuss in Yiddish -- vey iz mir!

isn't that how Micheal Weston started out?

Eh?

In my Oakland office, my cube was next to two conference rooms. I always knew when it was almost 1pm cause that is when the vultures appeared. You know, so they would just happen to be in the area when a meeting was over and it was ok to raid the leftovers. Those of us who actually sat in that area and had to deal with the hassle of extra folks roaming through and people stepping out of meetings to take a cell call rarely got to benefit from any extra food.

And, why, oh why, do people think that once they step out of a meeting to take a call do they think they can be as loud as they want? Yes, you are out of that room, but there are other folks trying to work here too. We don't need to hear every detail of your conversation.

how many times can a 3 year old say "I'm hungry" at bedtime?

Ok - what is this about because I have a 5 year old that does it too!!

With my in-laws in town this weekend, we all went out for dinner on Saturday. When it was time to leave, Dylan says "We are going to get on the Q train and then we are going home and then we are going to eat dinner."

When it was pointed out to him that we just ate dinner in the restaurant, his response was "I want to eat at home."

Kids = crazy.

Gene that allows growing a new head identified

British boffins say they have identified the key "smed-prop" gene which allows Planarian flatworms to regenerate any part of their body following an injury - even their brains. The discovery is seen as a step towards regeneration therapy for humans in future.

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The doc suggests that it may be possible in future to simply grow new organs and limbs for injuried or sick humans - even, perhaps, to repair their damaged brain in situ. This would be preferable to removing a duff brain and growing a new one, as happens when a planarian worm's head is cut off.