Weight log
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Bliss goes wall climbing
Bliss tries her paws at climbing walls and catching prey midair. The "wall" is my roommate's bed standing vertically. The simulated prey is a puffy ball. She can actually catch the ball as it is falling down but it never happened while I was taking the video though it happened plenty of times otherwise.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The joys of cold weather
Much as I enjoy not being chilled to the bone, there is one thing I am thankful for while living in a cold place and that is the lack of dangerous fauna. Not dangerous as in lions, or tigers, but dangerous as in stuff that you cannot even see. While an encounter with a Bengal Tiger would leave you dead, there is a certain openness and honesty in the whole thing. You can see it coming, you can take evasive action, and whatever the ending, it comes quick enough.
Compare that to being bitten by a Black Widow. You hardly notice it until it happens, and then you are fucked. And a Black Widow is pretty harmless as far as these critters go. Last week, I could jumpinto my basement through the undergrowth without totally fearing for my life. If I was a 100 miles or so south I would be really scared doing the same. What if you disturb a Brown Recluse? That spider carries scary necrotoxins. You hardly feel anything when she bites, 4 days later there is a gaping 6 inch hole where she bit. And it doesn't heal for a couple of years or more. For all dieters, if you want to lose your appetite, google for Brown Recluse bites. And worse, where is the Black Widow among the most likely to bite? On the dick, when you sit to take a shit. she comes out from under the lip of the crapper. I don't know if there are any documented cases of a spider going inside a pussy but it doesn't seem farfetched.
And spiders are hardly the worst of it, look at this giant centipede eating a mouse. This guy picks and eats bats from air. And yes, it can kill you. I am glad I haven't encountered any in real life.
Then there are all sorts of worms and stuff that like living inside you. Like the guineaworm, grows to several feet inside you and then comes out slowly, cms a day, from the leg. Very Painful. And if you try to pull it out and it breaks, you could die from septic shock due to the rest of the worm dying inside you.

And spiders are hardly the worst of it, look at this giant centipede eating a mouse. This guy picks and eats bats from air. And yes, it can kill you. I am glad I haven't encountered any in real life.

There's things like filariasis, which cause some body parts to zoom to elephantine proportions. Yes, those things between their legs are their balls. No, they are not really virile.
There's fish like the Candiru that like to swim into the penis (more commonly vagina) and lodge themselves in there and suck on your blood. There is no way to remove it except through surgery.
And I've even looked into the warmer oceans which are full of beautiful deadly organisms that can take your life in an instant. So the next time I am trudging through a foot deep snow, I'll remind myself that at least I am not likely to be stepping on a bao constrictor or a giant centipede, or some scorpion, or getting various parasites into my skin or what not.
Monday, December 11, 2006
They call me Tripod
Bah. If they had bothered to interview me, I could have singleleggedly added at least a quarter of an inch to the average. Though someone should tell these guys about the perils of using self-selected groups to generalize to the general population.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
We got the first proper snow for the season today. Proper as in there is a little accumulation. These pics were taken from inside as I was too lazy to wear something to go out. 
My kitty was really begging to go out so I let her out. She didn't care for the cold so much. Usually she is like a bat out of hell as soon as the door is opened.
Friday, December 01, 2006
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