Fresh Wallaby Juice

If you have a skill, and it’s a relatively rare skill (at least in your particular set of friends and coworkers) then you have to be somewhat careful about who knows you can do that. For instance, let slip that you know a bit about Labview interfaces, and you find yourself getting talked into [...]

“A 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of the earliest child ever found shows the ancient ancestor of modern humans walked upright but may also have climbed trees, scientists said on Wednesday.” — Reuters
And in 3.3 million years, scientists will still be saying the same thing…
“California sued six of the world’s largest automakers over global warming on [...]

I don’t usually do political/current events posts because there’s not usually much point, but CNN’s coverage of (an extreme) Muslim response to the Pope’s speech in which he described Islam as a religion “spread by the sword” is too amusing to pass up:
The pope on Sunday said he was “deeply sorry” about the angry reaction [...]

Between move-in (last week) and the start of class (this week), there’s been a lot of confused freshmen running around. And kids say the darndest things:
“But we’re on the ground floor. How do we get down to the basement?” (Standing in front of the elevator.)
“Your parents are lawyers in New York too?! [...]

That’s right, folks, it’s a wearable hamster home. Doesn’t it look like fun? But don’t copy it — it’s patented!
“A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer’s body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and removal. Outer wall portions of the passageways are [...]