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Daily Blog
Watching some TV.  On the computer, of course.  Friend of mine found/DL'ed/burned/somethinged a CD with 3 episodes of South Park from this year, and the first 6 episodes of The Osbournes.  My immediate reaction after watching a couple of each: SP has really lost it, and the Osbournes is a lot of hype.  It does show off how well mindless profanity can spice up a program, and make any stupid remark funny, though.  I'll comment more on them tomorrow perhaps, if I watch some more by then.

I got a new male rat, since the one I got about a month ago is proving defective.  He's a gay homosexual, as Cartman said about Stan's dog (back when SP was funny).  Well probably not, but he doesn't seem to know how to screw, and since I got him for that very purpose, before he becomes Red-Tailed Columbian Boa bait, it's disquieting.  He's physically mature, his balls have dropped and are, in typical rat fashion, about the size of his head.  He has the idea; he'll run up behind the girlie rodents when they are in heat and posing, and he sort of jumps on them, but he doesn't give it that oomph.  If he were Elvis, they wouldn't have to film him from they belly button up, if you see what I mean.  He often leapfrogs the girl rat, who then chases after him and sniffs and presents, in vain.  I've never seen a male rat who didn't know how to seal the deal; they usually know that by about 6 weeks, even when they're far smaller then the females, and you get the amusing "midget screwing the fat woman" freak show.

Anyway, the new one knows what he's doing, and with one of my 3 females ready to go, he was knocking those boots at last check.  I keep them in separate portions of the cage, but let them out to run around the room at times, but only when I'm in there.   He'll probably prove to be shooting blanks.  I'm down to 3 females, and one is old and sickly, and one is young and sickly, so getting one of them knocked up soon is somewhat mandatory.  Of course new ones are like $5 at a pet store, but they are much tamer if you handle them from birth, which is why I keep females and buy males from time to time.  That and males are sleepy and drip and smell and are coarse.  Girl rats are 10x better for pet purposes.

On with the various news items.

• This is maybe the funniest picture in the history of sports. The shot and caption are from US Yahoo, where this was by far the most popular photo of the last 24 hours.

Cristie Kerr kisses the trophy she received for winning the LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge at the Twelve Bridges Golf Club in Lincoln, Calif., Sunday, April 21, 2002. Kerr finished with a four-day total of 8-under-par 280. This was Kerr's first win on the LPGA tour. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

I want to make a funny remark, but I really can't think of anything that would top that image.  The golf ball on top is nice, "dimpled, for her pleasure".

• Scientific article about a breakthrough in neutrino detection.  I found the description of the neutrino detector to be rather amazing.

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a unique neutrino telescope, the size of a 10-storey building, two kilometres underground, down a mine in Ontario.

The SNO detector consists of 1,000 tonnes of ultrapure heavy water, enclosed in a 12-metre-diameter acrylic-plastic vessel, which in turn is surrounded by ultrapure ordinary water in a giant 22-metre-diameter by 34-metre-high cavity.

Outside the acrylic vessel is a 17-metre-diameter geodesic sphere containing 9,600 light sensors or photomultiplier tubes, which detect tiny flashes of light emitted as neutrinos are stopped or scattered in the heavy water.

Imagine having the knowledge to create something like that?  People tend to take scientific achievement for granted, mostly since they (we) have no real idea of how things work, and the level of education and information and technique that is inherent in any complicated device is just mind-boggling.

• Woman fills a strip club with bags of tuna, as an act of revenge after being fired.  Okay... I just wonder how anyone could tell the difference in smell?

• They caught and cut open a Tiger shark in Australia, and found most of a person inside.  That must have been a pleasant discovery.  The article has the following quote, which I found delicious.

The grisly discovery evoked memories of one of Australia's most notorious murders, known as "The Shark Arm Case".

In 1936, a human arm was regurgitated by a shark in a Sydney aquarium, horrifying onlookers and sparking a search for the rest of the body.

Tattoos on the arm helped police identify the victim as a former boxer killed after falling in with a Sydney criminal gang.

There's something you don't see every day at Sea World, eh? There's a picture of the shark on Yahoo, but no sign of human remains.  Perhaps Rotten.com will come through.

• Robert Blake is looking about 170 years old now, eh? Wig?  Certainly it's at least dyed (painted). 

• Article detailing the feelings of Saudi Arabians, writers and reporters and such.  They start off calling the US and Israel "the evil axis", and go from there.  Remember, Saudi Arabia is an ally.

The 113 Saudis, some of them prominent writers for respected Saudi papers, said the American role in the Israeli military operation against the Palestinians was "shameful" and said the "Israeli massacres do not differ in shape or form from what the Nazis did."

On Friday, the chief cleric of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Sheik Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, called on the Arabs to abandon peace efforts with Israel because they were "impossible."

Al-Sudais said Arabs should bid farewell to peace with the Jews, whom he described as "the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the killers of prophets and the grandsons of monkeys and pigs."

Hard to imagine how the Jews in Israel feel the Arabs are all out to get them, and how that feeling gives them justification for their continued anti-terrorism military actions.  Nice to see the Arabs, who have really done nothing for the Palestinians over the years, are so mature and able to look at the bigger picture.  Etc.

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