She never gets to play or have fun and it's sheer drudgetastic work work work for her almost 24/7. And I don't know how to take care of her, and I don't care a thing about her.*

And that was true of Quassia ...
And Wicker ...

PETA says so!

(Thanks squonkI do wish there was a way the guide dog schools could or would use shelter dogs, but I also ( Read more... )

Weird. I just had one of those moments that I recognized from a dream. It was completely mundane, me reading a comment thread on a blog and recharging my ipod. I remember the dream because I remember the subject of the thread from the dream and thinking it was kind of pointless, and also in the dream I wondered why I had an ipod. (I'm ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is guest science blogging at the New York Times and is "shamelessly trolling for page views" (his words).
I think he should get them.
Go read!

Good ( Read more... )

Partly because this was largely a year of lying low and regrouping from various shoccks and disappointments, partly because I was able to take better advantage of work down time* while traveling or working at home, and partly because I finally had good accessible technologies that allowed me to take better advantage of what was available, 2008 was ( Read more... )

Dear generic television comedy shows:

If you want to use people with disabilities to comic effect, please try to do one or more of the following:
1) Cast someone with that disability to do it! (Yes, disabled actors and comedians do exist, but are almost never cast! You could be part of the solution ( Read more... )

I just read the New York Times article about SNL parodying NY Gov. Paterson, and watched the clip itself (which is linked to from the article ( Read more... )

This is pretty funny (and to the best of my knowledge contains no hamsters or earworms.) "But it turns out, scientists like big words."

So

dedicated to the memory of Bitwise McNugget.

Kah and Shear Khan, you will have to wait til there's an equally charming song about gerbils.

I thought I had an appropriate picture for the occasion, but I can't find it, so the thought (and a couple treats) will have to do.

Happy birthday to the incorrigibly smart, silly and snuggly Pepperdog. You are five! And Peppery.
And you have ears!