hugs on all the good people of NC.

Y'ALL!!! I cannot find a home for Mr. Ralph Stanley! It is unpossible that no one at my offices wants this dog.

I am not convinced Bachman is human.

Switzerland is renowned for its intricate clockworks and automatons...

Everyone does. Or stops for gas. That is literally the first thing I hear when I say I'm from here. Although, probably not anymore. Never thought I'd want to be just hot and boring again.

I need spoons. Because we were going to London, a volunteer took the phone we use for my lost dog, and she had two people call today with solid sightings and has set up a track with the search and rescue dog tomorrow to try and confirm. It's been 5 months since we've had a sighting.

A quote for those who don't like working in groups:

"Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus. The lowest common denominator is never a high standard."

This quote comes from Forbes contributing writer Jessica Hagy who suggests that nothing kills a good idea like a committee. While it is important to listen to others, too much advice on how to make something more appealing usually involves dumbing it down quite a bit. If you really believe in your idea and what you want to accomplish, stick to your guns where it's important.

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has set up a track with the search and rescue dog tomorrow to try and confirm

oh wow. That's incredible. I wish I could come down to help.

hope they catch her this time, sparky.

An unapologetically reductionist cartoon about Australian wildlife

In case you're unaware, Australia bears the mildly unfair reputation as a continent brimming with freaky fauna. And as artist Katie Lisk explains of this webcomic, "My boyfriend has decided he wants to move to Australia. I decided to make some scientific depictions of what life there would be like."

eta: Crude comic Jillifont warning!!

NC is a conundrum to me. I love the Triangle area and the friends I made there. But I have never run into so much outright racism as I did in NC. None of it was directed at me. But there was a lot of conspiratorial "we are all white here so it's okay" stuff that I had never seen before. I know this isn't a racism issue but that experience really soured me on the state, which the small exception of Carborro, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh (sort of).

One thing. While I don't know the law in detail, I do know that sometimes if you move immediately after a contract is signed, you can get out of it either at no cost or at a comparatively small penalty. A whole bunch of ifs outside my paygrade as a non-lawyer. But if I were a bigwig in that company, I would consult a lawyer who specializes in whatever area of contract law covers that particular contract to see if it can be gotten out of comparatively cheaply, and check NOW.