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05:21 pm: Zombie immunity!

10:47 am: In honor of Dexter, Darwin and other pups
Just keep this in mind...

03:06 pm: Free concert tonight
I'll be singing tonight with the group "Just Voices" as part of the Emory Community Choral Festival.
The concert is free and features 4 choral groups from the greater Alanta area: Atlanta Sacred Chorale, Festival Singers of Atlanta, Just Voices, The Georgia Festival Chorus. The PDF of the program is available here.
If you don't like a lot of choral music, my group is performing 2nd on the program. :-)

Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
1700 N. Decatur Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30322

06:46 pm: Anybody want a sweet baby kitty?
My Ex and her partner found this little guy last night...

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/pet/1410986229.html

10:07 am: I <3 XKCD
I love it when XKCD makes me go learn something new. Today's hover-text mentioned the Kepler mission, so I went to the interwebz to learn about it.
After posting a status about it to FaceBook one of my friends from work pops up with the fact that his wife works with one of the astronomers who developed the Kepler mission.

From Nature, Jan. 3, 2008 - Extrasolar Planets by Dimitar D. Sasselov.
His personal site is here: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~sasselov/

xkcd.com - #638

04:23 pm: So...sleepy...
Dexter stayed with me Saturday night. It was so hard to get out of the bed Sunday with Darwin and this little puff keeping me company.

03:47 pm: 'sploded from cute...
Dreamingofkittens.com - the folks at ICanHasCheezburger have created a site dedicated to pictures of sleeping kittens. Splode. From. Cute.

12:22 pm: Velma and the gang make a major discovery

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03:15 am: parakeet update
I don't know if the owners came back for him or someone else took him in. Either way the parakeet and his cage are no longer outside the nextdoor apartment.

08:14 am: Abandoned parakeet
Would anyone like a pretty little blue/white parakeet?

The family in the apartment next to mine moved out yesterday and just left their parakeet in it's cage sitting outside the apartment.

When I got home last night I saw they'd left it behind - and the cage was sitting in the rain.

I tried to bring him (her?) inside last night, but Darwin went nuts. I couldn't even leave the cage outside my apartment (where it would at least be up off the ground). I gave the bird fresh water and putting back in front of the next door apartment where it was out of the rain.

Free parakeet with cage - Anyone? Please?

06:20 pm: I feel like Little Orphan Annie
Sing with me: Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow...you're only a day away!

Tomorrow is National Tequila Day!!!!
If you're interested in getting together for Mexican food and margaritas tomorrow in honor of this auspicious holiday, let me know.




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04:43 pm: Whippersnappers this Saturday - Microbondage demo!
Come join us for the Whippersnappers Play Party this Saturday at 1763!
8pm - Doors open (http://www.1763.net/)
9pm - Demo: Microbondage with Archer and Elegant
10pm to 2am - Open plan

*Microbondage*
The simple laundry room S/m pevertable can be used for simple skin bondage and erotic edge play. Hang up your preconceptions about clothespins and learn about edgeplay techniques, medical info, dangers and different types of clippy things. Observe demos and experience hands-on activities.

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10:35 am: I hope BofA gave this guy a new card...
The headline is NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes.
"Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN'-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars)."

The article goes on to explain it was on a Visa card from Bank of America. Anyone else see the problem here? I'd be willing to bet it breaks down like this:

$23,148,855,308,184,500 (amount charged)
$2.31 (purchase amount) + 4885 5308 1845 00## (card number anyone?)

The last digit of the card number is a check sum of the preceding digits, so they likely just published this guy's debit/credit card number minus only ONE DIGIT. That's right - 10 guesses and you'll have this guy's card number!

03:01 pm: Paleontologist meet Creationist, film at 11...
Attendees at the North American Paleontological Convention took a trip to the Creation Museum.
The New York Times article about their visit is Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh.

07:53 pm: recommendation
Does anyone have a recommendation for a neurologist?
I'm on day 9 of this on-and-off headache/migraine, and I'm listen to those who love me. It's more than time I saw a specialist.

11:52 am: Bragging on my brother
I know I've mentioned him on here before, and I'm ridiculously proud of my brother.
In the past he's mentioned being part of work across several universities and disciplines working towards making bionic limbs possible one day. Today he sent me this link about their research that is being published later this week. Their work is fascinating, and the implications for further work and research are incredible - to be able to read brain impulses without placing receptors inside the brain itself. The University of Utah press release on their work is available here:
Reading the Brain without Poking It

This photo and caption appear with the article:

University of Utah neurosurgeon Paul A. House, shown here in an operating room, led a study showing that brain signals controlling arm movements can be detected accurately using new microelectrodes that sit on the brain but don't penetrate it. The tiny electrodes should last longer than those that poke into brain tissue, and may extend the useful lives of experimental devices to help amputees and paralyzed people operate robotic limbs or use thoughts to control a computer.

05:44 pm: fuck, fuck, fuckitty, fuck
Headache is coming back, and I'm heading home.

Please. Go. Away. NOW.

05:53 pm: What does it really mean to be "open-minded"?
An interesting and well done video on why being "open-minded" does NOT mean "uncritical acceptance" of others' beliefs.

09:32 am: It sure isn't Aquaman!
I LOLed, srsly.

08:39 pm: may I have some air ATL?
The ATL airport it packed with people, we're late boarding and it's freaking hot.
Sweet! Boarding time!