A nice experience 12 Oct 2007 My mate Ian Musgrave, Astroblogger and expert in several fields of science, and his lovely family, are up visiting rellies in Queensland from the arid wasteland that is Adelaide. We all went on a bushwalk and while we were eating apples at the top of the cliff, we saw a couple of dolphins (bottlenose, I think), a mother and calf. Way cool… All you urban prisoners should be quite envious. Administrative Humor
Humor Stupidity 30 Nov 2009 Stupidity and Ignorance, Be you our buffers ’mid mischance; Endoctrine us to do your will, And other stupid people kill; Fool us with hope of Life to be, Great god to whom we bow the knee, —STUPIDITY. Stupidity, by Robert Services Read More
Administrative Win Apple stuff. Give it to me. 12 Aug 20084 Oct 2017 Our Seed Overlords have bling to give away. All you have to do is take a survey and they might give you an iPhone 3G, a MacBook Air and a 40GB Apple TV. Keep the Air and give me the rest if you win. Don’t tell the Overlords though. They… Read More
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Rest assured we are envious – except for Myers who’d simply deride your experience because it didn’t involve atheist squid….
We pay no attention to Mshzlkhst, because he is beneath our notice. We are not in the slightest envious of his high readership, beautiful wife and children, or tenured job. Or his comparative youth. Not at all.
Since I live in a country where I can not have a trophy wife, were I so inclined, I can only weep. However, this urban dweller does live a reasonably short ride away from locations where people can watch migrating gray whales; one of which is used for the “official” census. We are also seeing an increase in blue whale sightings, probably because of climate change.