Al Roker dropping the mic was HILARIOUS! I'm watching along, thinking "yes, vaguely amusing" and then BAM! MIC DROP! From AL. ROKER.

I guess I don't see how it can be a bad thing

I'm guessing they're being all or nothing, and unless you have been previously cleared one way or another, your level of dolphin is nothing. That way they don't have to work out when it's a bad touch (and it's probably most often going to be that--I'd hope the spirit of the law works here, and not the letter (it took me years to understand why the answer to that wasn't just More Letters!))

But why would it be a felony? I guess I don't see how it can be a bad thing.

I think the law is at least partially meant to prevent dumb tourists from treating wild animals like pets. Like trying to ride a dolphin or something.

I'm guessing they're being all or nothing, and unless you have been previously cleared one way or another, your level of dolphin is nothing.

I'm not an expert, but basically, yeah. Because even well-meaning touching/interference can result in the animals being disturbed, and disturbance can change their behaviors in such a way that they move, or change their eating/mating/parenting habits, and that can have an adverse effect on their longetivity and breeding success.

That's why the Endangered Species Act forbids not just killing, but any sort of interference with a listed animal. The scope of these statutes is very broad.

No dolphin for you!

I have Seinfeld on the brain because I just realised that Linda Tran from SPN was Ross' Julie (the other ethnic person in NY, the one that's not a superspy now--she's a monster masher).

So, uh, old NY sitcoms.

What sitcoms right now are really NY-bound? 30 Rock, clearly--is location very intrinsic in HIMYM? It seems to be the point of every other joke on 2 Broke Girls, but I'm not quite sure what's a joke on 2 Broke Girls, so that's complicated to calculate.

-is location very intrinsic in HIMYM

Oh, yes.

The Mindy Project is set in NY, but I'm not sure how vital that is. And Apt 23 is pretty explicitly about living in NYC.

Anyone heard from Allyson today? She posted on LJ and sounds really depressed. I don't know how private she wants it to be, but I'm worried about her.

OMG, I feel like I've already had a full day, and I only just got to work. Woke up at ~5:30 to my father tramping around the apartment, including opening the door to the room I was sleeping in. Got up 6ish, dawdled around a little, went to shovel, and....there was no snow. I mean, maybe an inch. But we swept off the stairs and sidewalk, at least. Then ready for work, swung by my place and dawdled some more, then my shuttle to work couldn't leave because we were boxed in by beer delivery trucks.

Now I want a nap.

is location very intrinsic in HIMYM

It was in the first couple of seasons, before the show got really terrible.

Brokelyn does regular write-ups of Two Broke Girls: [link]

Boy, is it cold out this morning.