John Gabriel, Dentista. Not just hilarious, but timely as well. One last dentist-ing before six weeks sans the dent students in our class. (Apparently, for one reason or another, the faculty feels that they don't need to learn about Reproductive Medicine and Urology. Strange, no?)

Something in the news post reminded me of a somewhat quaint notion I've been contemplating for the past little while. Tycho describes how he's expanded his mother's Nintendo DS universe of late, and describe how "Animal Crossing: Wild World did something [he'd] never been able to do: show her why her young man (who was in so many other respects a good boy!) chose to willingly disappear into these machines."

The notion I had been nurturing was, given what seems like my impending purchase of a Wii, dragging my own mother into the world of more immersive video games. She already spends a fair bit of time traipsing on the edge of a real gaming experience. Given my perception of the inuitiveness (?) and genuinely fun gameplay of some of the titles coming out for the Wii, I'm cautiously anticipating her going over the edge.

I'll find out in a couple of months, I suppose. Of course, this part of Tycho's post, from my perspective, is priceless:

I expressed some fear that she might not be making enough money to pay the rent, what with her spending all day at the riverside fishing up Armoires and God knows what else. She sounded a little embarrassed, and told me that she didn't want to talk specific amounts. "Jerry," she said, after a pause, "I've got all kinds of bells."

how about a chocolate cake shaped like a spider? or... peeled grapes for eyeballs... um... not sure what else to suggest... Dana's got most of the good ideas if you ask me. you can do some fun stuff with jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins... soup, cookies, cake, pie... not much more creative than that though.



happy thanksgiving y'all... hope it was fun... the mountains were really nice! hee hee, and it sounds like the weather wasn't too bad here either... :)

Lasee's idea is half-baked, teachers and school officials can become corrupt by the power of their weapons. Parents should arm themselves and encourage their children to carry some heat with them at all times. Those who object to carrying firearms can bring pepper spray, bear spray, holy water, tasers, lasers, knives, and collapsable batons as substitutes.

No, I suppose I don't want to write code. How about TopologiLinux?

My parents suspect she is mongolian or from the harbin region based on her last name.

I suppose non of you have heard of a singer called Jia Fei Jia Er before?

Armed-teachers idea gets negative reaction:

Rep. Frank Lasee went on national television Friday to push his idea to allow Wisconsin school officials to arm themselves in the wake of the Weston High School shooting.
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"All options should be on the table," he said, including "encouraging teachers and other school officials to carry firearms."

One of the guys in the Systems lab swore by Cygwin. Some might argue that you may as well install Linux.

I'm not sure what you can actually do with it, though. I've seen it used mostly for coding, but I don't think that's what you have in mind, right Percy?

Has anyone tried Cygwin? If so, comments? I'll probably give it a try later.

Hey Chris,

I just remember in elementary they used to use rice and call it maggots, or spaghetti and call it worms. Cauliflower looks like brains. I don't know if that helps at all.

On another note - does anyone want a kitten? My sister has an adorable little kitten (it is a barn cat, but it is adorable and would make an awesome house cat). It is a long haired cat (not so good for people who don't like cat hair, but rediculously adorable), and it is white with beautiful blue eyes. One of its relatives has the same coloring as it, and it still has blue eyes even as an adult, so we think this one may keep the blue eyes. It is also incredibly friendly. It ran up to my sister the first time it saw her (was also the first time it saw a human, which, believe me, is incredible for a barn cat to do). Also, my 2 year old nephew was playing with it the other day (and two year olds do not play gently with kittens), and the cat didn't do anything. It just kind of went limp until it was rescued, and didn't run away after. This kitten will probably die in the winter if I can't find a home for it (fall kittens usually do, sad as it is), so if anyone wants it, let me know!

HOLY FUCKIN'SHIT