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• A cute little baby brother, growing inside my pancreas.

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• Two days off from work won't be an excuse for not sleeping.

Daily Blog
As usual, I'm posting this well into the morning.  As unusual, I'm not 73% asleep, so in theory I can write something interesting.  Or what passes for it around here. I don't have a bottom longer essay thing, so I'll see if I can fluff any of the news pieces up some.

Well that was easy, I started on the conjoined twins thing, stimulated by the picture of that one on yahoo, and it just wrote itself, with a little help from some web searches.

Anyway, now I am tired, so I'm off.  News you can't use:

• Allan Iverson was arrested and arraigned and released Tuesday, I'm not really interested in the charges, it's just another out of control athlete with relationship problems, IMHO.  I did find his mug shot somewhat interesting though.  He knew he was going to be arrested for several days in advance.  The cops asked him to stay in his mansion over the weekend, and then he went with his lawyer on Tuesday morning to the police station.  So why are his corn rows so nappy and falling apart?  Obviously he could have had them re-braided before going downtown, and maybe tried less hard to look like a crack dealer in the photo.

I would conclude from this evidence that he wanted to look as he did, perhaps as a message that he's dirty and angry and street all that?

• Aaaliayhan died in that plane crash last year, shocking and saddening her fans, and provoking "Who?" remarks from the rest of the world.  I'd never heard of her, never heard any of her music, but since she was going to be in The Matrix sequels, I guess I sort of care. There's a news report out today about the condition of the pilot and plane, and it's just a disaster in every way. I'll recap:

• Pilot on probation for possession of crack? Check
• Pilot on cocaine and alcohol (in violation of probation)? Check
• Plane grossly-overloaded with fat bodyguards and equipment? Check
• Plane behind on routine maintenance? Check
• Plane charter company lacking proper licenses? Check
• Parents of dead singer filing multi-billion dollar lawsuits against pretty much everyone in any way involved? Check
• Parents likely to win their lawsuits due to obvious gross negligence by any number of parties? Check
• Odds this will bring their little girl back from the dead? No check

• A sick story about a teenager (male, of course) in London.  He murdered a 90 y/o neighbor, ate some of her heart, and drank some of her blood.  Not quite your normal tea party.

Prosecutor Roger Thomas said the teenager was obsessed by "his two main questions — how do I become a vampire and how do I become immortal?"

It all sounds quite damning (pun intended) but keep in mind every quote is from the prosecutor.  There have been various cases in the US of teens being railroaded for pranks or accidents that had an occult flavor to them, so let's not hang the kid in advance.

However, I'll briefly ignore that statement of moderation, since it disrupts my punchline:

A teenager obsessed with vampires killed an elderly neighbor and drank her blood because he believed that would make him immortal, prosecutors said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial.

It's a pity there's no capital punishment in the UK, because now we'll have to wait decades to find out if it worked.

• Maybe it'll turn into WW3, but this is damn funny for now.

The standoff began last Thursday, when a security force of 12 Moroccans landed on the soccer field-sized island, set up tents and raised their national flag.

Reminds anyone else of Duck Dodgers claiming planet X?

Thinking about it more seriously, imagine what life will be like?  There isn't any news item about the kid(s) yet, how healthy they are, if there is really one body and 2 heads, how many legs and arms, if there are two spines all overlapping and causing problems, etc. Just imagine if the spines merge and the kid can walk, move normally, etc.  I'm assuming it's really one body and two heads, and is functional.

On January 17, 1874, Eng was awakened in the middle of the night by a strange sensation. Looking towards his brother, Eng quickly realized that Chang had died. Eng called for his son William, who ran through the house shouting "Uncle Chang is dead!" Within hours, Eng was dead, too. Several weeks later, the bodies were brought to Philadelphia by a commission appointed by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. An autopsy was performed by Drs. Harrison Allen and William H. Pancoast at the Mütter Museum. It was determined that Chang had died of a cerebral clot. It was unclear, however, why Eng had died. Some physicians suggested that he died of fright. Today, it is thought that Eng bled to death, as the blood pooled in his dead brother's body.

Because of the severe nature of their connection, the Tocci brothers never learned to walk without assistance. As in the case of some conjoined twins, each boy controlled only one leg, and they never were able to coordinate their movements. They were able to write (one was left-handed, the other right-handed) and each had artistic talents. After twenty difficult years touring, the twins retired to a secluded home near Venice, Italy. They married sisters and lived another forty-three years in seclusion.

Masha and Dasha are bound to each other permanently. They each have 2 arms, but they share 3 legs, two perfectly good ones and a vestigial third leg. They were born January 4, 1950 in Moscow. As a result of their degree of fusion, they share some internal organs, though not all. Their pelvic bones join and their spines meet at the coccyx. Their circulatory system is interconnected, though their nervous systems are not. Since their spinal cords do not connect, their senses of touch are totally distinct. They become ill separately and fall asleep separately. They each have their own stomach and separate upper intestines, which join to form a single lower intestine and rectum. They have four kidneys, one bladder and a single set of reproductive organs. There is no physiological reason why they could not bear children.

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