Thursday, November 30, 2006
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Christmas
I'm not going to buy Christmas gifts from any store online or off which does not use the word "Christmas" in their store or advertisements.
Fatal dog attacks
The New Yorker: Fact: "'A fatal dog attack is not just a dog bite by a big or aggressive dog,' Lockwood went on. 'It is usually a perfect storm of bad human-canine interactions--the wrong dog, the wrong background, the wrong history in the hands of the wrong person in the wrong environmental situation. I've been involved in many legal cases involving fatal dog attacks, and, certainly, it's my impression that these are generally cases where everyone is to blame. You've got the unsupervised three-year-old child wandering in the neighborhood killed by a starved, abused dog owned by the dogfighting boyfriend of some woman who doesn't know where her child is. It's not old Shep sleeping by the fire who suddenly goes bonkers. Usually there are all kinds of other warning signs.'"
Friday, November 24, 2006
So far, so good
Today is "Buy Nothing Day". So far today, I have succeeded in buying absolutely nothing.
Via How to Buy Nothing - WikiHow
The United States Postal Service is amazing
The Postal Service will deliver 20 billion cards, letters and packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
On average, the Postal Service processes 670 million pieces of mail every day. On the peak holiday mailing day, Dec. 18, that volume will increase to 900 million pieces of mail. On that day alone.
More than 4 billion holiday snowflake stamps will be printed this year.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Micro Images Blog
Micro Images Blog has some amazing photos taken of common objects using a ProScope handheld USB microscope, and a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Dead squirrel
Here's a question I can't find the answer to on the Web: how to dispose of a dead squirrel? Maybe it's common sense which eludes me, but I have a feeling I shouldn't just dump it in the garbage or bury it in the yard. Someone in my yard, I'm not saying who, probably killed it by breaking its back. Or it could have died of rabies or natural causes. My proud little lab mix brought it to me in her mouth. Other than being a little soft in the middle, and dead, it was undamaged. It was nearly as big as her head. I wish I had a picture of her carrying it. I think she intended to bring it in the house and eat it.
Maybe I should put it in the freezer. I could use it to freak people.