That is exactly what I thought the first time I saw a bear in the wild "what a big dog!"

I love that one!

How does it go? In America the poor just see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I'm sitting home alone (well just me and the dogs) reading this story and my neighbors haunted house display is just blaring out this creepy music - all crawling strings and ghostly chorus and just perfect for reading these stories.

I was a freshman in college and walking my dog on a very typical Oregon October afternoon. It was cold and dark and drippy and I was going along a sidewalk with a new development of houses on one side of the street and forest on the other. There was no other person visible, no cars, no people walking, nobody out in…

That's funny I was just reading earlier Isaac Asimov's "Of Time and Space, and Other Things" and reasons for considering the Earth-Moon system to be a binary planet system. I guess most other satellites are much much smaller than the planets they orbit.

To quote Alexander deLahunta "The answer is always neural crest."

I now get that "Prince Albert in a can" joke.

When I moved to New York from Oregon I drove with my 12 year old golden, when I moved back 4 years later I drove with my 16 year old golden, 6 year old beagle, and 2 year old golden. I'd never trust an airline with an animal.

I only wear mine at home. It's convenient when I'm typing or cooking or playing with the dogs or whatever while on the phone. I never leave the house with it on - sweatpants rules.

So a ringed planet will have areas of a kind of false night in the ring's shadow? I guess I never thought of that before. Kinda cool.

Hah, isn't Goodkind another one of those objectivist/Randian sorts?

Ha, this reminds me of when my brother and I used to play the SNES Jeopardy game. One of the answers was something like 'tick bourne disease named for a mountain range' and as I was frantically typing out the question I discovered that there were too few available spaces and the game counted it wrong even though it…