• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Psychobunny (Qu’est Que C’est?)

    One of my team members is somewhat psychotic about decorating for holidays. Actually, we used to have several such – the sort of folks who go overboard buying the latest giant illuminated inflatable Santas at Christmas, who buy up half Walmart in their quest to get a good deal on dancing hamsters dressed as Elvis, singing fish, and anything that lights up and is shiny (they’re kind of like the magpies of kitsch, really). Anyway, the one psycho Person of Questionable Taste decided we needed something for the holiday doldrums; ie., that period between Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day.…

  • Connections

    Linx for Later

    Interesting links to check after work via Neat New Stuff: BBC – BBC Four – Audio Interviews Keeping Things Found (we’re constantly struggling with this one)

  • Childfreedom

    Suffer, The Little Children

    BBC NEWS | Americas | Mother charged in Caesarean row Um. “Did not want her cosmetic appearance disfigured” does not go with the photo, somehow. It’ll probably turn out to be a misunderstanding based on some wacko “only in Utah” twist. According to the Salt Lake Trib, the surviving twin, a girl, has already been adopted. If she didn’t want the babies in the first place, why go through with a full-term pregnancy? Oh, never mind, she may have had moral objections to one well-known remedy for “oopses”. (irony mode on). I just don’t get it. On a side note…