Incidentally, I'm now home after having been hospitalized for 24 hours. Most tests were normal. Condition improved. Further details later, at end of work-up, if warranted.

The remains of the largest rat ever found have been unearthed in a cave in East Timor. (Link to abstract, which links to pdf of full paper.) It was in the genus Coryphomys. It weighed 6 kg. It seems to have died out 2000 years ago.

East Timor, hm? Close... very close.

During the last meeting of the Nameless, we had some brief talk about writing fiction with an eye towards saleability. Do we call such a writer a prostitute? Or do we call them 'published ( Read more... )

The result of a root canal is a zombie tooth. After my last root canal, the ranks of zombie teeth in my mouth just rose to five. Scary.

I took both amoxicillin and Vic0d1n. Amoxicillin causes diarrhea. Hydrocodone causes constipation. The result was a state of blissful equilibrium, their side-effects fighting each other to a standstill.
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In the future, all women will be hot. So will all men.


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