Cancer

Hmmmmm. I expect to participate. Wonder if a concept will occur to me in the next 30 hours or so.

Hm. It seems you can start a business ostensibly for "Biohazard cleanup" but not simply for "Biohazard". How limiting. EDIT: Similarly, you can have "Cosmetologist" but not "Cosmologist". and "Debris Cleanup" but not "Debris Creation". Not simply "Demolition". You can have "Dog Food", but that probably is manufacturing or selling that, not being it. You can have "Emu Raising" but not "Emo Raising". "Escort Service" and "Exotic Dancer" are explicitly permitted. Woo! "Explosives User (Blaster)" is allowed! "Liquidation" probably does not mean turning your enemies into a slurry. "Mad Bomber" and "Mad Scientist" are not on the allowed list. "Magician" is allowed, but "Mercenary" is not. "Motor Vehicle Wrecker" is allowed. "Necromancer" is nowhere to be found. "Neighborhood Watch" is there but not "Neighborhood Witch". Nothing starting with "Nuclear" is on the allowed list. "Peep Show" is allowed, as is "Pest Inspector". I wonder what the overlap is among those. "Physicist" is not on the allowed list, but "Astronomer" is. Fascinating. You cannot have "Arsonist", but I suppose "Pyrotechnics Operator" (which is allowed) is an appropriate stand-in for that. "Shatterer of Worlds" is not allowed. I wonder what "Social Worker, Uncertified" is supposed to be. Huh. Had no idea there was enough demand for them to list "Tank Renovating". "Telegram Stripper" is on the allowed list. No "Torturemaster". No "Wizard", but maybe they throw those in with "Magician".

Primordial Soup rounds out the trilogy.

Meh, I've had that cookbook for decades.

It is among the results taken as very troubling indications of serious problems with AI picture generation that when the facility was asked for an image of a "fighting wombat" it produced a clearly recognizable Death Tribble instead. Still got the cubical feces, though.

Late this day (Leap Day) in 1992, my wife proposed to me. My response was to get up, go to my dresser drawer, and hand it to her: I had already bought the ring. (In what women have always derided as a Dumb Guy Thing, I was waiting to ensure that I'd have funding -- i.e., a job -- for the next academic year.)

The original species of grumpy cat.

Still impressive typing speed. I can't do that.

* Cancer shoots another card cheat *

People with mobility issues who buy houses with spiral staircases.

It's called 7-11 so they can give free Slurpees out on my birthday. Duh.

Colorado launches firearm data dashboard Considering the obfuscation efforts by the firearms industry and its political lackeys, this first is a huge step in the right direction, but it seems not to include firearm deaths due to police (a few years ago, one year police accounted for a quarter of the homicides in the city of Seattle, so this is a serious exclusion). Law enforcement agencies nationwide have fought such reporting requirements (let alone data publication) forever.

The last charismatic Republican president with dementia is still the darling of conservatives, and that was Reagan.

The mute button is your ally.

I knew there were reasons I liked crocodiles.

Never play cards with an entity that you can't watch shuffle and deal. It will always cheat.

53 years. Not quite as far back as the 1960s.

Death Tribble pleaded guilty of strip-mining the Devon hillsides for linguine.

I actually prefer that to some other alternatives. I swear I have encountered people who could not be stopped from speaking for 20 minutes at their own funeral.

New manufacturer for MLB jerseys ... is not popular.

On 23 February 1987, the first naked-eye supernova in nearly four hundred years had its outburst in our sky, SN 1987A. I was on the telescope that night. With equipment that was on the fritz. And during a snowstorm. And I was in the wrong hemisphere (SN 1987A can't be seen from Arizona).