From around the internet:
The UK Kennel Club has changed dog breed standards, moving away from characteristics that are not healthy for the animals, like schmushed noses that cause breathing problems, heavy skin folds, and so on. I wonder how many generations it will take for the progeny of today's champions to meet the new standards. (I'm also wondering what will happen to all last year's very expensive puppies. Talk about a bad investment!)
"SOME of the hottest results in the nascent field of social neuroscience, in which emotions and behavioral traits are linked to activity in a particular region of the brain, may be inflated and in some cases entirely spurious." Damn. And I'd been following that stuff with interest. Aren't there standards for research?
"They" are getting closer to a cloak of invisibility. Cool. Which reminds me - there have been several books about people being invisible, always men, by the way, and I (who has a problem with suspension of disbelief anyway) couldn't get into them, because hey, this is a guy who wakes up one morning and finds himself invisible, but it never occurs to him to head straight for the nearest undressing/sleeping females? And really, isn't that the first thing they'd think of?
A discussion of a lawsuit indirectly implicating (possibly) Trent Lott and others in an attempt to (possibly) bribe Mississippi Judge Bobby DeLaughter, led me to wonder how the judge's name is pronounced. My immediate choice was to rhyme with "daughter". "Laughter" feels wrong. I wish I knew. And why are laughter and daughter pronounced differently, anyway?
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The Man found this sign in the restroom of a tire store today, sent me photos from his cell phone. The sign scared me (don't even think about the waste basket).
By the way, I'm in love again.
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Found in this blog, early November, 2005:
"Sometimes you can't really know what someone is saying to you. You hear the words, but sometimes the words carry a meaning different from their dictionary definition. If you have no other basis for interpretation, you interpret from your own base. In an intimate relationship, the only way to fully understand the other person's messages, or lack thereof, is to understand their motivations, how their mind works.
If you don't understand that, you don't have an intimate relationship. You're just skimming along the surface."
It's still true.
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