I think this cat is related to my cat Darrow. I sleep with the radio on and he's figured out to work the volume. If I don't get out of bed to feed him quickly enough in the morning he'll turn it up to ear splitting levels so I wake up.

Very cool. Do you have a picture of the footprints you can show us?

I had to figure out a way to remove a bunch of rock from a specimen with out damaging the fossil footprint. We were in the process of moving to a new building with a weight restriction on the floor and the block was going to probably be too heavy. The footprint, while large (tyranosaurid), was quite fragile so power…

No worries: I don't understand Spanish, so therefore I'm immune.

I had walking pneumonia, it's not as bad as that, but real flu is horrible. Look how many people died from the Spanish Flu - 3-5% of the population in 1918, 10-20% mortality rate.

Oh you will. the anti-vaxxers will show their ugly heads soon enough.

"False, you do not need a flu shoot. Just let your body deal with it naturally"

I had a severe flu in 1998. I had a 104 fever for over a week, was out of work for two full weeks, and wheezed in my lungs for 3 months post-recovery. I don't remember part of those two weeks. I lived alone and couldn't even feed myself. I lost 10lbs in those two weeks. It was *really* bad. It was not like a bad cold,…

The flu shot contains 3-4 deactivated strains of the virus that were judged the most likely strains to show up that year. Most of them contain 4 nowadays. Is it possible you won't encounter any one of those strains? Sure. But if you do encounter any of those 4, or closely related strains, your odds of getting the…

I'll take 2 hours of a sore arm over 6 days in bed in total misery, slowly being buried under a mountain of used kleenex, thanks.

And this is one of the ways your body deals with it naturally.

According to the World Health Organization, between 250,000 and 500,000 people die of the flu each year. This is your body dealing with it "naturally."

blech... i HATED the ending to the mist movie... christ, wait till at least you get thirsty before offing your kid!

Years after seeing the movie, I finally went and found the book. Some of the differences were minor (it's Fezzig's mother telling Fezzig, "Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something."), while others go against everything I know about the character (in the book, Wesley actually SMACKS Buttercup…

Faramir does hesitate and is tempted:

Yes, but Aragorn hesitates. Not a lot, but some. Whereas book Faramir doesn't. And Aragorn is, to say the least, exceptional compared to other men

Battlefield 1942

Sid Meier's Colonization