Neno

I really think he's getting bigger every night. I swear last time i visited he was not as large as he is this time... Even the other day when he spent the morning in bed with me I kept saying, "man, you look big, Neno..." and then just now when i saw him i thought he was much bigger than even the other day. I mean, his head is bigger than my fist....
And I don't just mean the fuzz part.

His SKULL is bigger than my fist.

Now, that's a big cat...

Sometimes I think maybe he's not truly a fully domesticated cat. Maybe he's half lapcat half jaguar, and he's not growing out of proportion, he's just becoming the jungle cat he was always meant to be...

Volvo: Plenty of room for friends and tubas

I've always been bothered by people who flake on things with zero notice whatsoever. I don't mean calling five minutes after they were supposed to be somewhere. There's a special circle of hell already reserved for those people... No, I mean the people who will actually make plans, and then when it comes time to execute them, will just simply NOT, for whatever reason, and give no notice, and make no attempt at communication, as if they simply disappeared.

And then afterwards, when it is clearly too late to do anything about it, a voicemail is left as if that would help things. What is the mentality behind that? How can anyone think that NOT talking to the person you're supposed to meet up with could ever solve an altercation? If you really don't want to hang out, just say that. I'm okay with that... But to be blown off? That's really disrespectful, and that I have a problem with.

I kind of expect it sometimes, though. Usually from the people from whom it would hurt the most. I make myself expect it just in case it actually plays out that way. It's a defensive strategy. It's not because they're bad people, or any more prone to doing that... It just hurts more from them...

Because those are the people I'm supposed to be able to trust not to do that kind of thing. Theoretically, they care enough about me not to do that. So it always hurts more when they do it, because it seems that much more underhanded and disloyal...

I suppose I'm just being ridiculous, expecting this from them... None of them seem to have the same opinion about the way morals should be held as I do...

What do we want?

Fry's dog!

When do we want it?

Fry's dog!!!

Cadaver-Seeking Dog

haha, cadaver seeking-dog...


It has become my opinion that modern law-enforcement animals are being abused. How could anyone think it fair to train any creature to sniff out dead bodies? I mean, think about that: that guy's job is to smell rotting flesh. When he smells it, it's a good thing, and when he doesn't smell it, something is wrong. That creates issues all in and of itself... That has to be something like the Ugandan boy getting a headache when he didn't see blood. You just know that dog's gonna be fucked up.

Missed Opportunities

Do we ever really realize what is going on around us? Can we ever truly understand the weight of a situation when we're in it?

I'm watching a History Channel documentary called "Beyond the Big Bang," and in one instant am shown an interview with this elderly scientist named Ralph Alfer, who gives a sound byte about a scientist named Hoyle. It isn't an astonishingly revealing sound clip, nor is it anything anyone else couldn't have said, but it obviously displays that the History Channel was able to get an interview with Ralph Alfer. 74 seconds later, a young scientist by the name of Brian Greene is discussing Hoyle, and explaining how Hoyle himself wasn't really a mathematician, and depended upon "this phenomenally talented graduate student of his, Ralph Alfer..."

Before seeing the post-production version of the documentary, was Greene even aware that the History Channel was in touch with Alfer? This is obviously a hero of Greene's. Were the two introduced? Did Greene ever have the chance to meet Alfer? If so, was he able to accurately express to Alfer the extent of his admiration for the man's work? Or was he left unaware of his proximity to this hero until after the History Channel had released Alfer from his conversational duties?

Where are you going?

What a question.

I wish I could tell you.

There is such a dilemma created by this question. Especially when there are conflicting destinations.

On the one hand, the destination is far away from home, and all the problems and current vexations. On the other, not so much movement, not so far from home, but with much better company than recent commonality. A choice to be pondered, especially if one is already committed to the latter- has been committed.

To choose the former would mean a good chance at happiness. There is very little there to negatively affect. The effects of the latter, while also therapeutic, are not so drastically felt. The draw to the latter, however, is that it was presented and committed to first, and to not choose it would be to betray those to whom the commitment was made. But to not choose the former would be to hinder the already damaged relationship with those involved.

It's a tricky decision to make, and I think what we choose says a lot about our personalities...