A happy birthday to my soulmate and partner, Amy, who’s had to watch me decline while the uni is still closed and other stresses. Lova ya.
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Best to you, Jaucelynn
Happy birthday to Jaucelynn, daughter 2 of the 4 Canadian clan.
She’s now 30, with two sons, who each have fabulous hair, and can skate.
Jauce recently moved from suburbia Toronto to Lion’s Head, Ontario (that’s in Canada), and Fischer, I expect you to check in, and no killing cat stories.
I spoke with her yesterday, which is about the best I can do.
She works as a medical writer, and can work anywhere, so I guess all those years of thinking I had no impact may have had a minor impact.
I’m still pissed at her when she was 10-years-old and dumped a glass of water on a desktop Mac in 2000 and proclaimed she didn’t do it.
The computer died a month later.
I’m over it, love ya kid.
From the duh files: 19% of Americans have put bleach on food to kill coronavirus, sanitizer sold as gin in Australia
Survey results published last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), revealed that 39% of the Americans surveyed have done high-risk things with household cleaners in attempts to stay safe from the Covid-19 coronavirus. That’s based on a web-based survey administered to a nationally-representative sample of 502 adults on May 4. Surveys still suck, but it provides some sort of insight into where people are at after three months of isolation.
These high-risk activities included drinking or gargling diluted bleach solutions, soapy water, and other cleaning and disinfectant solutions, which 4% of the survey respondents said they have done. It also including trying to clean their hands or skin (18%) or misting their bodies (10%) with household cleaning and disinfectant products.
But the most common high-risk thing to do was applying bleach to food items such as fruits and vegetables, which 19% did. Umm, don’t do this. Your food isn’t a bathroom tile. You can’t just apply bleach to food and then expect to wipe it off completely. Anything that you put on food could potentially seep into the food and eventually make it into your mouth, assuming that’s where you end up putting your food.
Victoria’s Apollo Bay Distillery (that’s in Australia) has recalled its SS Casino Dry Gin as a number of the 700ml bottles were filled with hand sanitiser. The liquor company said the recall affects nine bottles sold from June 5-7 2020.
The bottles were sold at Great Ocean Road Brewhouse in Victoria, according to a statement from Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).
The food safety group said that Apollo Bay Distillery’s gin was recalled as it was labelled as gin, but does not contain gin. FSANZ said the product had non-compliant labelling and did not have a shrink wrap seal.
The bottles contain 1.45 per cent glycerol and 0.125 per cent hydrogen peroxide, which may cause illness when consumed. FSANZ advised consumers not to drink it as it may result in harmful side effects such as nausea, headaches, dizziness, bloating, vomiting, thirst and diarrhea.
And on the 40th anniversary of the release of The Blues Brothers, which helped to once again revitalize American knowledge of the country’s musical wonderfulness, enjoy.
Two-faced kitten ‘Biscuits & Gravy’ Janus cat dies 4 days after birth
It was probably the summer of 1985, and my future ex-wife and future veterinarian, gave me a call at home and said, you have to come see this.
A dairy calf with two symmetrically opposed heads, had been born nearby and brought to the vet school.
It died within two days.
A couple of years later I dabbled in a philosophy of science MSc, and when classmates were debating (stoned) the various accuracies of some historical writings concerning weird creatures I said, it’s biology, shit happens. I’ve seen a two-headed cow, the prof and others openly mocked me.
No worries about that, I was never cut out to be a philosopher of anything.
Shit still happens.
A two-faced kitten who was born in Oregon this past week has died just four days later … despite a hard-fought battle to pull through.
The rare feline phenom — which is often referred to as a Janus cat — was part of a litter of six kittens that popped out in Albany on Wednesday, and the owner, Kyla King, noticed one of them had two mugs on one giant head. She named the kitty Biscuits and Gravy.
Kyla and her family documented B&G’s development over the next few days, showing off their attempts to feed the kitten — which proved incredibly difficult, on account of it being able to feed itself out of both faces — as well as it playing and napping with its siblings.
The owners say Biscuit (its short name) was actually able to eat pretty decently, but he simply wouldn’t grow … and had trouble carrying its head, which was too big for its body.
In the end, the cat died of natural causes — with Kyla writing … “This photo was taken about an hour before Biscuits died. Kyla gave up 3 1/2 days of her life to put all of her efforts into saving him. He was born with the longest of odds and by living nearly 4 days, he beat those odds.”
How will the philosophers explain that one.
George and Ted and a computer tip
The writer Kurt Vonnegut used to say the most pleasure in life was rolling around on the carpet with a puppy.
Can’t disagree.
This is Ted, our 4-year-old Cavalier King Charles, with George, our new 8-week-old Cavalier King Charles.
They are cousins.
We all need puppies in dark times.
And for all those scrambling to take courses on-line, it ain’t that easy.
I, the tenured full professor, got fired from Kansas State University in 2013 because I wasn’t physically on campus.
No one is, now.
Irony can be ironic.
But here’s a tip: when recording or speaking on line, ensure the camera is the same height as your eyes (I put my my computer on a box) otherwise, you’re staring down at the screen, and it looks terrible.
Yes, George really is that small.
I plan to spend a lot of time on the floor.
Click on the url below and the cute puppies will come.
I went to elementary school with one of them
But that was a long, long time ago.
(Brantford, Ontario, that’s in Canada)
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But R&R does go away, in pieces: Little Richard dead at 87
Little Richard dead at 87.
Rock and roll can never die
Robert Johnson was born today in 1911.
I dance like Dan. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing.
Japan’s poop museum — online
A museum dedicated to poop first opened in Odaiba, Japan in 2019, and quickly became one of the most Instagrammable spots for Hongkongers to visit. And now, the museum is taking things online.
Browse through the museum’s collection of poop art and drawings, try your hand at an interactive game involving flying neon turds, and you can even download a few poopy wallpapers to use during your video chat sessions.
Swedish city dumps chicken poop on park to deter holiday celebrations
Officials in a Swedish city said they are dumping more than a ton of chicken poop on a popular park to deter revelers from gathering to celebrate a popular holiday.
The city of Lund, which annually draws crowds numbering in the tens of thousands to celebrate Walpurgis Night in its central park, said chicken manure is being spread across the park to prevent revelers from gathering to celebrate the Thursday night holiday amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Walpurgis Night, a spring festival that has roots in ancient pagan tradition, is celebrated annually on the last night of April.
Gustav Lundblad, chairman of the Lund council’s environmental committee, said the chicken poop serves multiple purposes.
“We get the opportunity to fertilize the lawns, and at the same time it will stink and so it may not be so nice to sit and drink beer in the park,” Lundblad told the Sydsvenskan newspaper.
He conceded the effort might have some unintentional side-effects for nearby residents.
“I am not a fertilizer expert, but as I understand it, it is clear that it might smell a bit outside the park as well,” Lundblad said. “These are chicken droppings, after all. I cannot guarantee that the rest of the city will be odorless. But the point is to keep people out of the city park.”