Cancer

Many problems seem more tractable after a decent night's sleep.

Like the old advert said: "Betcha can't eat just one!" Y'know, like that time I took you to the erotic bakery and got you a pastie. And then you spend fifteen quid on ... other things ....

Is that Paradaxe, illegitimate child of Farahslax?

Dodreckahedron: a twelve-sided solid filled with unspeakable slime.

The total eclipse of the Sun crossing North America happens two months from today. Totality comes ashore at Mazatlan and runs northeast across Mexico and through central Texas, stepping on Little Rock, central Indiana, western Ohio (including Cleveland), across parts of New England and southern Ontario and Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. See the Great American Eclipse page for more information.

Quadrille pads

Death Tribble took what he calls a "first-rate pee" on the deck of HMS Victory one rainy morning in Portsmouth.

Notebooks

Not sure about that. Aluminum is too ductile; the handle would warp too fast.

Is parental fidelity a known issue in your district?

That comic is correct for Europe. The numbers go up as you get closer to the Equator. So at mid-latitudes of the US it's roughly twice the values given. You don't want to think about what it's like in Panama. This was the dominant reason why the US returned the Canal Zone to Panamanian control.

Flat Earth Geography is debated as a possible replacement for Phlogiston Chemodynamics on the basis that it's easier to understand. NT: Bizarre things that you might write into your will.

Any number of places this could be posted here, but here's AI making an opportunity for all of us.

This seems to have become my personal theme song of late, augmented by my decades-old declaration that darkness is my ally.

brain junk food

As I walk away I look over my shoulder To see what I'm leaving behind Pieces of puzzles And wishes on eyelashes fail Oh, how do I show All the love inside my heart Well this is all new And I'm feeling my way through the dark And I used to talk With honest conviction Of how I predicted my world I'm gonna leave it to stargazers Tell me what your telescope says Oh, what is in store for me now It's coming apart I know that it's true 'Cause I'm feeling my way through the dark Try to find a light on somewhere Try to find a light on somewhere I'm finding I'm falling in love with the dark, oh yeah Oh, what do I know I don't care where I start For my troubles are few As I'm feeling my way through the dark Through the dark I'm feeling my way through the dark

Calculator

Zeppo Marx (and the other Marx Brothers) NT: School supplies

my Wedding Pictures

Kindness to animals

A friend of mine, she cries at night And she calls me on the phone Sees babies everywhere she goes And she wants one of her own She's waited long enough she says And still he can't decide Pretty soon she'll have to choose And it tears her up inside She is scared Scared to run out of time I see my folks are getting on And I watch their bodies change I know they see the same in me And it makes us both feel strange No matter how you tell yourself It's what we all go through Those lines are pretty hard to take When they're staring back at you (Oh, oh, oh) Scared you'll run out of time When did the choices get so hard With so much more at stake Life gets mighty precious When there's less of it to waste Mmmmmmm, scared you'll run out of time Just when I thought I'd had enough And all my tears were shed No promise left unbroken There were no painful words unsaid You came along and showed me I could leave it all behind You opened up my heart again And then much to my surprise I found love, baby Love in the nick of time (Love in the nick of time) I found love darlin' Love in the nick of time (Love in the nick of time) I found love, baby Love in the nick of time

Nature's best science pictures of the month

Time to investigate the Final Solution to the MBA Question, then.

Querulants