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Friday August 30, 2002 |
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of the Day If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat -- in other words, turn you into an adult. Also, if you want to get one of those great red beefy, impressive-looking faces that politicians and corporation presidents have, you had better start drinking early and stick with it. -- P. J. O'Rourke |
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Update My sleeping schedule is just whack of late. I was up last night at about 1am, ready to do this update in 30 or 45 minutes, and then get back to work on the band names pages. Up to R now. But I went in to let the rodents out a bit and poke at the babies, laid down briefly, and bam, it's 4am and I feel horrible. Put the rodents away, took the fan out of the window, turned off lights, etc. Slept until almost 11am. I guess I was tired. Generally I do about 6 or 7 hours a night at most, but the last week or so I've been tired all the time, eyes itchy, and then not sleeping well; waking up every couple of hours. I think it's cancer. Well, no vacation for me, the baseball strike threat has been removed by a new work agreement. I guess I'm happy. I do need the money, and I would have missed work tonight and potentially twenty-something more times this year if the entire rest of the season had been cancelled. At the same time, it would be nice to just sit here and do nothing this weekend. Nothing in terms of going out, that is. Bleh. Anyway, some news here. • The Animatrix trailer is up, and it's roxor. Me wants. • Also spotted on AICN are Harry's very cool reports from the set of Kill Bill, Quentin Tarentino's samurai-spoitation epic. Parts 1-4 are posted now, linked from the main page, and they are of course very long and rambling, but much more readable than Harry's usual writing (I don't even try to read his reviews anymore.) and the movie sounds so cool that they are worth a read, IMHO anyway. • Photo of Enrique Iglesias arriving at the Mtv Video Music Awards with his date (?) Anna Kournikova. Enrique is nominated for best male video, and it looks like he'll have a hand in the voting for best female ass as well. Anna appears to be trading up from her usual grunting Russian hockey players also. I suppose I'll have to grant Enrique a bonus point on his band name page entry now too. Bastard. The article about the VMAs is here. Mtv's coverage is here. Several other funny shots: • Eminem meets Moby. Keep in mind that Moby is this mellow guy in his late 30's who has never done anything mean to anyone, and just cranks out the happy tune electronica. Eminem put nasty comments about him on his last album, which while funny is sort of cheesy, in a beating up a cripple way. Eminem won a ton, just to rub salt in Moby's wound: Video of the Year, Best Male Video, Best Rap Video and Best Direction. • Axl Rose takes a break from the buffet to perform. I really hate to call his current band "Guns and Roses" being as their new music sounds nothing like the old stuff and it's really Axl's vanity band, after he drove off all the other classic members with his asshole personality. • Britney Spears with the scarecrow. God Michael Jackson is scary. • Christina Aguilera with her entry in the "who is the biggest slut" contest. I await her post-Tammy Faye stage with some interest. You used to always hear that Christina was actually very pretty, prettier than Britney, but I've never seen her (Christina) in a photo when she wasn't buried under hideous make up and bad wigs. At some point she'll get sick of looking like an extra from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and it will be interesting to find out if there's a girl under all of that. • The "Good Lord" photo of the day. I doubt a person on earth looks at this without thinking, "This is doomed to a tragic ending." • Yesterday I mentioned the idiotic concept of a real life Beverly Hillbillies. Well, the opposite is true as well. Fox is trying to cast a real life Green Acres. Remember when people thought reality TV would be a good thing, and a break from the same stupid overwritten sit coms of the 80's? • They've found a sunken Japanese sub near Pearl Harbor, and apparently this means that the US started the war, by firing the first shots. It's a bit of a silly argument; the sub was there to scout out the raid. It's not like Japan heard about their sub being sunk and then decided to attack; it was part of the whole planning that was already well underway and was going to happen regardless. What I don't understand is if a US destroyer saw and sunk an enemy sub about an hour before the actual raid, why wasn't any more of an alarm sounded? The whole story of Pearl Harbor is the woeful lack of preparation by the US, and this just adds to that. |
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Baby rats are cute from 2-4 weeks. They are cute after that, but they are less of the "wind up toy" look, that they have now. Now they look like pudgy mice, for they are all legs on a fluffy body. You can't believe they can move so quickly, and the most agile of mine now are leaping about quite avidly, tackling each other, etc. I
got one photo yesterday but it's not very good. If you can't tell what's happening, it's the fault of
the wire mesh, as always in photos. The mother rat's head is to
the left, against the wooden side of the box. She's on her side
with her left rear foot poking up at the top right. All of the
babies are lying on top of each other while suckling; their funny pink
foots and tails are all stacked up to the lower right in the tangle. Mother
rats have 6 nipples on each side, two up high, one in the middle, and 3
more down by their back legs. You can pretty well see where they are by
where the rodent heads are here. She's got a semi-mellow and resigned
look on her now, as she surrenders to the hunger and pushing of the
babies. Keep in mind this litter is just 8. I've
had ones of 16 and 20 in the past. The babies all together
outweigh their mother by about 3 weeks, so it really becomes a sort of
combat for her to nurse them without being trampled and crushed in the
process. Fortunately they begin eating around 16 days, so they
aren't relying on her milk for all of their nourishment. You
can see their food dish to the very left of the shot (it's a white
plastic Gatorade mix lid) and they are eating so much corn it's just
amazing. The babies climb out of the bed, sniff and grab a corn
kernel, and then leap back in. And I do mean leap, that wooden box
edge is about twice their height, but that's no concern. They are
far from nimble too, it's more of a "throw myself upwards"
leap, and they crash into the top of the wood and basically tumble over
into the box. Funny to watch though. I have a 6
foot acacia potted acacia tree in my living room that I usually let the
babies out to climb around on once they are getting pretty nimble.
It's quite hilarious to watch them learn to climb around on it, so there
should be some funny pics from that. I know, you just
can't wait for more vermin photos! |
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