I’d spent all morning diagnosing a bug in our software that just rared its head after hiding for months. I’d finally proven it wasn’t my doing and passed it on to one of the real programmers to fix, and now I was hungry. It was almost two hours past lunch time, and my tummy was feeling it. Especially since I’d slept until the last possible moment this morning and skipped breakfast. Before I decided what to do, a nice looking young woman walked into my office and said, “Would you like some chips and salsa from On The Border?” The powers that be continue to smile upon me.

“Have you ever been out in the forest (bush) or maybe even in your own backyard, and come across a strange fungus, lichen or maybe a slime mould, and wondered “what’s that?” .My web site is my small attempt to photograph and name many of these strange things. Many of the photos have been taken around the Auckland region of New Zealand.”

The Hidden Forest has beautiful photography and quite a lot of interesting botanical info on Slime Molds, Lichens, Fungii, and other primitive plants. Found via Poor Clio.

America’s Library.gov is the US Library of Congress’ on-line home. THere you’ll find old audio recordings, video clips, and other interesting exhibits. It’s geared toward a young audience, butI enjoyed it just the same.

The kitty went as close to the brink as a kitty can and came back to tell us about it. “Rawr” and “Purr” seem to sum things up. When we took him to the emergency room Tuesday night (Wednesday morning?), he’d come out of his siezures. Blood work was done, and his red blood count was half what it should be. They stabilized him, and by the time he saw his regular vet the next morning, the blood count was down to a third of normal. After more searching, it was discovered he had the best of the possib;e diagoses: blood parasites. Little things that swim around in the blood stream, chomping on the tasty red blood cells. Icky, but curable. He’s now on many medicines and we’re watching for signs of things to come: blood damage like this lead to organ damage. How much damage and which organs remain to be seen. But for now, he’s chatty and eating fish.

Looking at the “This Week at Tech” section of the Socorro, New Mexico newspaper, I see that not much has changed since I was there.

Wonderful loving kitties suddenly getting seizures is a very sad thing.

“Ha ha,” I’ve said. “The ol’ snake in a can gag. You know, I’ve seen this a thousand times,” I’ve said. So why is it that when I really, truly need the ol’ snake in a nut can, I can’t find one. I’ve been all over Athens, looking in the stores that should have these things, sheepishly telling the clerks “I’m looking for the snake in the nut can thin. Got one?” Nothing. Luckily, there’s the internet. I can’t believe FedEx is delivering me a snake in a nut can. The things I do for theater…

I just found Jodi at i will dare. Wish I’d found her earlier. I spent two days reading all of her archives. Well, I did do a lot more during those two days then that, but I was at work, after all. She’s on my favorites list now, so I’ll keep current with all things Jodi.

If it’s photographs of rooms insode homes in the riuns of the Roman city of Herculaneum you’re after, here you go.

Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World has been animated on the internet for several months and I didn’t know? For shame! (Flash player required, but worth it.)