someone must be messing with the time-space continuum.

Gud? MM? Jilli? ... Owen?

I assure you I have not been hooking up a micro fusion reactor to a flux capacitor and using the outputs to synchronize a pulse graviton emitter and tachyon array. Nope, definitely not doing that.

There was an admin at a non-profit I worked for years ago who led everyone in her life through a fake pregnancy saga that completely mystified me.

If it had just been the multiple office showers, the money and the attention, I could have understood, but she dragged her mother, with whom she lived, through the ringer with her. When things began to go badly, she somehow influenced her mother to make debasing calls to our boss about how wronged her daughter was. Later, it was discovered that she'd pulled this same scam in other offices.

Even worse, the organization took a massive beating when those who wanted to believe her came over all sanctimonious and, down right cruel, towards anyone with a doubt. I'm not sure relationships ever recovered, even after she got fired for stealing. Or rather, letting her boyfriend into the office after hours so HE could carry away the computers and phones, etc.

After all that, the people who were hoodwinked just couldn't let it go. It was awful.

Peoples is strange.

Deeply strange.

Oh my god allergies are making me want to claw my face off.

Oh my god allergies are making me want to claw my face off.

Really? Because work is making me want to claw my face off. And others', while I'm at it.

Shark Knife will terrify your enemies with macho impracticality

The shark knife isn't going to win any beauty contests, but that's OK, because shark knives aren't about looking good, they're about getting the job done. And the job here is looking insanely tough, but with a tender, whimsical side. The Klingons have a word for this, most often translated as "trying too hard."

Peoples is strange.

For reals. I met Ascot Man when a friend married his sister. One of the reasons we started talking was he was suspicious of my friend. Rightly so, since it turned out the couple had told the family that he was a high-paid lawyer when he hadn't finished law school. They had papers to "prove" it at the pre-nup sigining and everything. To this day, I still have the copy of Hola! with the article calling him a "prestigious New York lawyer." They basically set up the whole reception so that the Spanish and American sides wouldn't mix and find out the truth.

Another weird painting: Sniper Jesus

I'm not sure how best to make fun of this. I mean, making fun of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is like shooting fish in a barrel....

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian leader, says Paul the Octopus, the sea creature that correctly predicted the outcome of World Cup games, is a symbol of all that is wrong with the western world.

He claims that the octopus is a symbol of decadence and decay among "his enemies".

Paul, who lives at the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre, in Germany, won the hearts of the Spanish by predicting their World Cup victory.

He became an international star after predicting the outcome of all seven German World Cup matches accurately.

However, the Iranian president accused the octopus of spreading "western propaganda and superstition." Paul was mentioned by Mr Ahmadinejad on various occasions during a speech in Tehran at the weekend.

"Those who believe in this type of thing cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values," he said.

Huh? I've given up on achieving human perfection a long time ago. Maybe that's also what's wrong with the West, but I doubt it....

Wow, people are fascinating. In a bad way, sometimes.