I think it's important to recognize GMO technology as merely part of the tool kit. But that said, I think it's a huge one, because its selective targeting of specific genes means a lot less time spent on crossing and raising plants and combing through thousands if not millions of plants, hoping to find fortuitous…

The vast, vast majority of corn (like 95%) is hybridized, which means that there's no use saving seed because the resultant plants won't be the same as the parent plant. So farmers using hybrids will be buying new seeds every year anyway. It's been this way for decades, long before Monsanto got in the seed business. I…

What hurts even more is that the bride is younger than me, too! Goddamn these slightly younger vipers, snatching up all the available men!

Wow. I actually had to rack my brain for a second to think who you were talking about. Glaz is right, I meant "no offense" Todd. I by no means meant that "our"TODD!!!!!!!!!!!! (was that how we stylized it?!) was pathetic.

That's who I named him after! He's this little orange and white cat who's constantly sneezing and he seemed kind of pathetic, so I thought it was fitting.

WHAT. IT'S COMFORTING

Chicken nugget pizza

That's exactly how it felt.

I know I live in a relative tropical paradise, but if it makes you feel any better, the snow has landed in a big way here too, and yesterday it was 20 degrees colder than usual (it was 6 degrees F/-14C).

They tried but they can't hold me down. I really straightened them out after I threatened to swap them out for a couple of farmcats named Todd and Kai Ryssdal.

Not only is the farming season over, I quit that job! My reign of farm terror is over! At least for a little while.

Did a couple of sisters ever ask you to come and play with them forever…and ever…and ever?

I had to look up how "Sarah" was spelled in all those instances. It irks me how many H-less ones there are. An H-less Sarah is a pantsed name. My dad knew way back in 7th grade, when he decided that if he ever had a daughter, he'd name her Sarah, that that H was vital.

None of the fictional Sarahs/Saras really resonate with me or irk me, and no one's ever brought them up to me, but I like sharing a name with Sarah from Labyrinth and Sara Crewe from A Little Princess as I greatly enjoy those characters and those entertainments.

I was calling a very beautiful kitten on the farm Sally and then they started calling her Rufus. Weirdly, it fits her. I really like the name Sally, though.

Happy belated birthday, Roare! Happy more belated birthday, Lloyd! And Donald Glover! But mostly you and Roare! And Alec! They won't see this but I hope your days were swell.

She was my favorite of the witches. I admired her. Because she was blonde and pretty, I thought. You ruined her forever.

You may be aware that I, too, enjoyed this film.

Happy birthday, good sir!

And then you have to clean up all the dishes and everything. :(