From this, responding to this, which was, in turn, responding to this: … I applaud cats for taking control of their evolutionary destiny. I don’t want a pet to be too industrious. I get pets because they’re relaxing. I don’t require strict obedience from a pet, and I like cats because they don’t obey you, […]

A swimming pool in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia kicked out a bunch of daycampers from the city because they might

This never fails to remove a pesky earworm from my brain: Desperate measures are clearly needed after the last post.

The queue at the security door looked like some sort of dead man walking/green mile/death march this morning. None of my systems or passwords work today. Some guy looking for someone who doesn’t work in my building has called me four times in the five minutes, and is unable to understand that dialing the same […]

Japanese railway workers have their smile rated daily by a computer program: Your smile, rated on a scale of 1-100 using some strange facial recognition mirth detection algorithm, then offered happy-making platitudes if it’s not up to snuff. Then there’s this: Workers at Keihin Electric Express Railway will receive a print out of their daily […]

Yeah, I’m going to have to go ahead and guess that Mr. Grint had slightly different feelings on this turn of events. /six takes.

Al Franken is finally declared the winner of last year’s Minnesota US Senate race, and will likely be sworn in within the week. Whether they voted for him or not, I bet the people of Minnesota (especially Senator Amy Klobuchar and her overworked staff) are happy to finally to have their alloted two Senators in […]