"One howl only, Vasily."

Well, there's always Heinlein, who was a nudist in real life as well as the author of books full of nudity.

Now I want to go watch "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" again. (it includes a bunch about naked mole rats)

A while back I went and got rid of a whole bunch of books, including many reference books that I no longer use since I'll just look stuff up on the net. I did not, however, get rid of reference books that might be helpful for rebuilding civilization.

A few years back I read a pretty good book that heavily involved Oak Island mythos, called "One King, One Soldier". Fun read.

Good for him. I think this is a great example of ways that men can help reduce sexism.

Hm... On the one hand, more rodents means they'd be attacking eggs, but on the other hand, fewer deaths of birds from attack cats. There are certainly places where bird populations have been hit hard by cats.

Oh, sure. I think some of the Valdez cleanup bill stuff is still in litigation.

The economics get worse when you look at the expectation of insurance and other economic impact of potential accidents - the TMI cleanup was something north of a billion back when a billion dollars bought a lot more.

Also, the group Moosebutter has done a medley - [www.moosebutter.com]

Cool. I'd heard about the Bloop before, but was unaware of the rest of the strange sounds on the list.

It's been fun, growing up in and living in the Golden Age of antibiotics. It's a shame it's ending.

"tasselled wobbegong shark"? You totally invented that name.

Alfred Hitchcock?

Fuck yeah. The hot new shit in the dental industry is in-office CNC machines that can produce a custom crown for a given patient. [www.yourdentistryguide.com]

Oh thank God. Since Amber and Adam are (or were last I heard) a couple, I thought this was some kind of bizarrely ironic and snarky comment about an *actual* pregnancy announcement and I was ready to be all "Uh, guys, what the fuck, over?"

I can't address the actual question, since I'm not military, but I will take a moment to mention Books For Soldiers, which is a group that takes book requests from active duty military and hooks them up with volunteers who send books. I'm one of their occasional book donors, and I admit it - I make a point of looking…

So, someone is well on their way to making the "homer" ammo from the novel version of Logan's Run. The homer never misses.

If this is a sign of mental illness, the problem is that people going down that road don't think they're going crazy - they think they're going sane, and that all of the music of the spheres has aligned and is revealing the epiphanies of the universe to them.

The Star Trek apartment is gone, but the Portal Room has risen to take its place in the cycle of nerdy decorations.