crowdog66

Note to people in my neighborhood who own dogs:

To Whom It May Concern:

When, in the winter, your dog takes a shit at the edge of the sidewalk, the Crap Fairy does not come along and magically take it away after you cover it with a little snow. It STAYS there, waiting (when the snow melts, as it did today) for someone like me to come along and almost step in it. >.<

Sincerely yours,

A Fellow Resident of the Street

*sigh*

( Cut for way, WAY too much feminine information )

My biggest concern: what if, one day, the bleeding just doesn't stop? Could it be dangerous?

Now feeling shaky, crampy, and a little bit weak. I'm skipping out on the DBT session this afternoon because of this, but also because the Hardy Boys editor just emailed me with a panicked request for four of the later pages of the book (they need the art for the back cover), and I have to get them done this afternoon. Before I do that, though, I have to run out and pay the internet bill (running on the very edge of disconnection) and renew those exercise tapes I took out from the library (they charge $2/tape for every day they're overdue). This in spite of the fact that right now I'd much rather be horizontal than vertical.

And now, to make this post more than just poor-little-me bitching, a note of real scientific interest, first brought to my attention by squirrelly42:

Scientists can grow frog and mouse meat in the lab, and are now working on pork, beef and chicken. Their goal is to develop an industrial version of the process in five years.

If they succeed, cultured or in vitro meat could be coming to a supermarket near you. Consumers could buy hamburger patties and chicken nuggets made from meat cultivated from muscle cells in a giant incubator rather than cut from a farm animal.

Now, how cool is that?

Next entry: a hilarious parody poem by moon_very_thin. I promise.