I am really just holding out for my pet [link]

lion-maned rabbits???

What she interrogated.

I went to a butterfly zoo on Monday. They also had super-tiny adorable fancy quail running around under the bushes that I nearly had to be restrained from grabbing and taking home. (The signs said not to touch the BUTTERFLIES, so I thought I had hit upon a loophole. )

I read that as lion-manned rabbits, and was very confused.

When I was in high school, my friends and I snuck on to a pig farm to take pictures of all the piglets. It was adorable.

Thank FSM for the Calming Manatee.

Downtown has a food pod today! I'm very excited. I hope they have something awesome for lunch.

What's a food pod? Initially Google seems to think it's a kitchen doodad, and the articles which talk about food trucks don't actually explain the nature of poddiness.

It's not my place to follow up every discussion with "Can you repeat that all back to me?"

Oh, but that would be so good.

Oh, but that would be so good.

The temptation is strong. The number of times I've explained things in an important situation and people walk away without asking me for clarification, but then later fess up to not having gotten it...scares me.

My boss never leaves a discussion without saying "Okay, so if I get what you're saying...." and that makes me feel much more comfortable.

However, if they also remembered from week to week (seriously--you can take notes!) it would be even better.

Man, I'm reading some stuff on Scientology, and I can't *believe* these people. I mean, if you separate the beliefs from what they do, there's still lots of grounds to declare them wackadoo. I don't know if you have credibility complaining about their space clam if you have religious beliefs of your own that posit supernatural things, but how they act is just so damned wrong I can barely believe it.

So Vanderbilt's football coach will not hire an assistant coach until/unless he has met and approved of the candidate's wife.

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Franklin, in a relaxed mood near the beach, explained, "I've been saying it for a long time, I will not hire an assistant coach until I've seen his wife. If she looks the part, and she's a D-1 recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That's part of the deal. "There's a very strong correlation between having the confidence, going up and talking to a women, and being quick on your feet and having some personality and confidence and being fun and articulate, than it is walking into a high school and recruiting a kid and selling him."

Apparently this is also featured in Moneyball?

I'm pretty appalled at the logic behind this. I mean, WTF?

What's a food pod?

It's a bunch of food trucks all together at the same place.

I'm pretty appalled at the logic behind this. I mean, WTF?

Wow, yeah. What if he's gay? Or just single? And I guess there's no chance of a woman being an assistant football coach.

Also, "looks the part"? That means she has to be pretty in order for her husband to be hired? And what does "a D-1 recruit" mean--that she had to be a college athlete, or is that in reference to her looks?

The more I think about this, the dodgier it gets--it really is something out of the 1950s.