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  • Squirrels on Crack

    The idea of a squirrel on crack scares the crap out of me.

    Squirrels go nuts on crack

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    squirrels, digging up stashes

    SQUIRRELS are getting hooked on crack cocaine — hidden by addicts in gardens.

    They are digging up the stashes and eating the mega-addictive drug, which comes in small chunks.

    Several have been spotted behaving bizarrely in Brixton, South London, since a police blitz against pushers and users.

    One resident said: “My neighbour said dealers had used my garden to hide crack.

    “Just an hour earlier I’d seen a squirrel digging in the flower-beds.

    “It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot, but it kept on desperately digging. It seems a strange thing to say, but it seemed to know what it was looking for.”

    …

    Crack squirrels are a recognised problem in America. They are common in parks used by addicts in New York and Washington DC. [The Sun Online]

    Has anyone else heard of this problem with crack squirrels in America? Should I be frightened? The squirrels in my backyard always look a bit crazed and hyper. I’ll have to start carrying a bat to fend them off when I go out to the car.

  • Idiot Teachers

    Thank god this substitute teacher was fired.

    Teacher Mistakes Boy’s Insulin Pump For Phone, Rips It Out

    CLERMONT, Fla. — A substitute teacher in Lake County, Fla., was terminated and banned from teaching in the county after he ripped out a student’s insulin pump during class apparently thinking it was a ringing cell phone, according to a Local 6 News report.

    Officials said a ninth-grade student at East Ridge High School, who is a Type I diabetic, was in class Monday when his insulin pump began to beep, indicating he was low on insulin. [local6.com]

    A friend of mine has an insulin pump, there’s no way I’d think someone could confuse it with a cell phone. I mean, the tube running from it to his body would be a dead giveaway I’d think.

  • For the Handyman Who Has Everything

    I personally think it should come in a big roll. It isn’t really duct tape if it doesn’t make that noise when you rip a piece off. It also needs to be multipurpose. You should be able to use it to build some bizzare contraption with it, like MacGuyver.

    Duct Tape Band Aid

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    I am a man’s man. Nothing hurts me. I am pretty much invincible, except when my kitty scratches me. The worse thing is going to the construction site (work as I call it) and getting ridiculed by all of the other guys, and even the women for wearing a daffy duck band aid. This is a duct tape band aid for the most hardcore people out there. No longer will people think you are a baby. I mean honestly, nothing says hardcore more than having duct tape wrapped around a boo-boo. Maybe dipping said boo boo in motor oil and wrapping a used diaper around it is harder core, but not by much.

    The Duct Tape Band Aid [OhGizmo!]

    [via Gizmodo]

  • Fall

    I have to check on the status of the leaves changing this year. Anyone up for playing hooky from work someday, or maybe driving up to western MA to see if the leaves have changed next weekend? I think my parents are out of town, so folks could stay over. The only condition is that I’d want to visit my high school campus while up there. They have good places for walking too (or did).

  • 101 Things in 1001 Days

    Seen over on LJ originally. The goal is to to do a preset list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. I think the hard part for me with coming up with 101 things. Maybe I should start off with 1 thing in 11 days, where that one thing is coming up with 101 things.

  • Colorize Me

    As seen over on Swirlychick’s LJ, the ColorQuiz. Give it a try.

    200509281758 Gregory+Blake took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

    “Takes easily and quickly to anything which provide…”

    Click here to read the rest of the results.

    As usual with these quizzes I take things with a grain of salt. I think the one thing that really rung true for me was the line “Anxious to experience life in all its aspects, to explore all its possibilities, and to live it to the fullest.” This has definitely been a big issue for me post transplant. And I’m still kind of rediscovering myself too, the whole experience has definitely changed me a bit.

  • Win a Lobster!

    We need these in the US. Some of the other vending machines linked to are cool too.

    Japanese lobster-vending machine
    Cory Doctorow:

    ~Edjacob Lobster

    Earlier this week, I blogged a great collection of Japanese vending machines, but this one is even better, sporting, as it does, a coin-operated live-lobster vending machine! Link

    (Thanks, GenkiGecko!)

    Update:Here’s a commercial supplier of coin-op lobster game/vending-machines (courtesy Daniel Drucker)
    [via Boing Boing Blog]

  • Blog Stuff

    People have been pestering me to get crossposting working again so that my blog posts show up over on LJ. I finally got it working this morning after quite a bit of fiddling. I’m using the ljcrosspost plugin for Movable Type. It works fairly well, but took some fiddling to get it to work right. I should email the author and let him know the issues I was having.

    Next step is to get OpenID working so that people over on LJ can log into my blog for comments using their LJ info.

    One big gripe I have about MT plugins these days is that not enough of them work with dynamic pages. I’ve got 4000+ entries and rebuilding it all just for a new plugin really sucks (and takes forever).

  • Manga and Girls

    Recently the New York Times ran an article about Manga for Girls. In other words: shoujo manga. Even though I might nit-pick on a few points, it’s a pretty solid article.

    Shojo – the word means girl in Japanese – frequently involves a lovelorn teenager seeking a boyfriend or dealing with situations like entering a new school, being bullied or trying to break away from a clique. There are also action stories featuring girls in strong roles as scientists and samurai warriors. (The shojo genre has been called “big eyes save the world,” after the characteristic drawing style of girls with saucer-shaped eyes who are sometimes endowed with supernatural powers.)

    But parents and teachers, who are sometimes happy to see teenagers reading just about anything, might be caught off guard by some of the content of the girls’ favorite books. Among the best-selling shojo are stories that involve cross-dressing boys and characters who magically change sex, brother-sister romances and teenage girls falling in love with 10-year-old boys. Then there’s a whole subgenre known as shonen ai, or boy’s love, which usually features romances between two impossibly pretty young men. [NYTimes: Manga and Girls]

  • Because It Is That Day Again

    ARRRR!

    BOOTY!

    WENCHES!