News: Just Stuff

Geeky stuff:

• Engineering: like math, but louder.
• It's time for a ROAD TRIP TO PORTLAND!!!!

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I can't decide if knowing that now makes me feel better or worse. Stupid catnip shampoo.




Traffic:

• Wow, there's actually a "commuter pain index." Organized by city, Los Angeles is tops in the U.S. but only 14th in the world!
• This cat knows how to deal with that!
  
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Misc:

• "In 2010, the biggest problem will not be invading aliens, authoritarian supercomputers, or rebellious talking apes... It will be a broken pipe." Hey, there are still almost 6 months left in the year! You never know...
• Who needs to hire a private investigator to see if your spouse is cheating when there's Facebook and no way to know what the privacy controls do and do not do? The site has become the best friend of divorce lawyers. And while Facebook is apparently the source of 66% of online evidence in cases, even World of Warcraft gets a mention.
• McDonalds poisons Americans more than Brits with each McNugget eaten. Ew...

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Coco, the stray Siamese who showed up when I was a kid, got about 6 feet up a pine tree once and then realized he had no idea how to get down because claws don't work so well in reverse. After he was manually extracted, he stuck to bushy plants.