Ack. Calm~ma please. I'm about to have a conversation with someone at work that is way outside my comfort zone.

Bananas are yummy. I got nothin' else this morning.

Calm~ma, brenda. Those conversations are hard.

My nephew got an Apple TV for Christmas, and he loves it. He's a total Mac fiend.

I think Apple TV (or a Blu Ray player or other TV box thingie) makes sense as an alternative to cable to the extent you're willing and able to get your TV and movies from the iTunes store, Netflix, or other streaming video service.

Interesting Slate article: Blood Loss - The decline of the serial killer

Serial killers just aren't the sensation they used to be. They haven't disappeared, of course. Last month, Suffolk County, N.Y., police found the bodies of four women dumped near a beach in Long Island. Philadelphia police have attributed the murders of three women in the city's Kensington neighborhood to one "Kensington Strangler." On Tuesday, an accused serial stabber in Flint, Mich., filed an insanity plea.

But the number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public's fascination with them. "It does seem the golden age of serial murderers is probably past," says Harold Schechter, a professor at Queens College of the City University of New York who studies crime.

Wow, I lived through the "golden age of serial killers" and didn't know it....

Wow, I lived through the "golden age of serial killers" and didn't know it....

Maybe there should be a tee shirt.

And I got this from freekibble:

3-legged dog fosters kittens.

Daisy, I'd look at the shows you watch regularly, work out where they come from and if Apple TV gets you them more cheaply than cable. Then factor in ad hoc viewing.

I have an older Apple TV, and I consider it a cool novelty, but iTunes is way down the list of how I acquire visual entertainment, and I have a TiVo for streaming stuff already.

Chinese Man Grows Horn On His Head

An elderly man in southern China has baffled medical experts after he began to grow a horn on his head. Huang Yuanfan, 84, says that the strange growth began as a small bump two years ago but just continued to grow.

“I tried picking at it and even filing it but nothing changed it. The horn just kept getting bigger,” he said.

Now the horn is almost three inches long and still growing.

“Doctors say they don’t know what caused it but if they try to take it off it will just come back. I try to hide it beneath a hat but if it gets much longer it will be sticking out the top,” he added.

I wonder if this will change anybody's mind about the supposed link between vaccinations and autism:

The diehards are saying it's part of the great "Big Pharm" conspiracy.

The diehards are saying it's part of the great "Big Pharm" conspiracy.

Yeah, that's what I figured.