http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/ The Divinely Guided Boot of Upward Inspiration Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:40:00 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/l2-kHjpN5YA/633.html Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:05:26 GMT Nothing to see here. Move along. http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=633 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/633.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/w4RIsD_L0is/547.html Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:08:40 GMT Well, here's a unique addition to the food clone wars - cloned pigs bred especially to be calm, stupid and honored to end up on your plate: GM scientists are actively investigating ways to remove the stress and aggression gene from animals, effectively turning them into complacent zombies. The professor said it might become technically possible to produce "animal vegetables" - beasts which are "highly prolific and oblivious to their physical and mental status". Uhm...it's called "basic cable" and it's been done. Anyway, I'm still not altogether certain that actually makes... (more) http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=547 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/547.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/1FuyEEfrVzg/546.html Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:11:09 GMT Just so you know, school-aged children are walking bio-hazards. And one of them has offloaded some sort of brain-eating gray goo into my lymph system, where it has proceeded to tunnel its way into my cranium, reproduce wildly, devour the gray matter therein and crap the resulting excrement into my sinus cavities, which are releasing the overflow in alarming quantities. On top of that, as the mass of brain-eating nano-crud grows, it's apparently taking up more room in my skull then my brain did. Explosive catastrophic decompression is no doubt imminent. Some thanks I get for trying to... (more) http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=546 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/546.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/36MjpXWpoMw/545.html Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:15:13 GMT "It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living." – Terry Pratchett "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened." – Montaigne "How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments." - Benjamin Franklin http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=545 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/545.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/mR9o-wnjfV4/544.html Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:01:53 GMT Well, pooh. One of my favorite comics, Foxtrot (it of the geekish humor) is going to be appearing Sunday's only, as cartoonist Bill Amend has decided to cut back on work and enjoy the fruits of his labor. (Fine, be that way. See if I care.) Which really sucks, because I can't afford a subscription to the paper. We get ours from the next door neighbor, who sticks it on our porch when she's done with it. Only her oldest son often takes the Sunday edition home with him. So now I gotta remember to go online to get my fix. Yeah, that and an hundred other things I gotta remember to... (more) http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=544 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/544.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/h6ZFlEPu4Tc/543.html Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:52:46 GMT This page of images showing ideals of beauty through the ages has a head-snapping slap on modern ideals at the end - comparing today's fashion model iconography with a photo taken of a Nazi holocaust victim. The resemblance is both uncanny and disturbing. Thanks, but I'll take my growing-ever-more-Rubenesque figure anyday. (Hubby has taken to calling me "Cello" in the boudoir, in admiration of my more classical figure. How damned sweet is that?!?!?!) Coincidentally...mmmm...are those brownies I smell cooking in the kitchen? Hubs has been baking again! http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=543 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/543.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/gNCincg9B_M/542.html Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:10:41 GMT Cloning is getting a lot of press these days. First it was stem cell cloning from people wannabes on their way to the delete folder. Then it was the argument over whether it would be legal to clone organs, or for that matter whole humans (sans brains and other vital "peoply" bits). And now it's all about cloned meat. So now the breach has been jumped into by the FDA and it's officially legal to clone animals for food. Which simply encourages my sick little mind to combine two recent cloning arguments to come up with the following ethical humdinger: Assuming human cloning (say, for... (more) http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=542 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/542.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/OA0NE4HkkkY/541.html Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:55:18 GMT So, how was your holiday? To be honest, mostly I've just been either laying around reading or sitting in front of the computer catching up on some backlogged maintenance work that needed to be done - updating hubby's website (didn't get to mine), re-establishing some business and personal connections, updating my online networking profiles and so forth. Christmas saw us dining in splendor at a local Indian place we both love. Great meal, great company, and peaceful quiet at home. Perfect. Thom got me a cozy pair of Polar Fleece split-toe socks (the kind you wear with flip-flops) to keep... (more) http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=541 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/541.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/2lOa_cLEzH4/540.html Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:39:57 GMT Since it seems to be the thing to do, I figured I'd share my New Years resolutions here as a way of saying, "Yes, I am culturally aware and participative, thank you very much." I'm not generally big on resolutions, mainly because they tend to be the same sort of prayerful promises of better behavior in the future in exchange for leniency in the present that one makes to oneself when one is puking one's guts out after a late-night binge or when one's car breaks down in a seedy neighborhood at 3am. And they are just as often fulfilled. That being said, I have found an ideal resolution... (more) http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=540 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/540.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DGB/~3/Cfd0f4ezcQY/539.html Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:44:16 GMT Spent the day enjoying ourselves. Had to get out of the house for two appointments, so we figured we might as well make a day of it. And what a gorgeous day it was, too - sunny and probably near 60 if not over it. Chilly in the shade, but absolutely splendid in the sun. I started the day with a noon appt under the care of a local coiffeuse, who sliced and diced my overgrown Ringo do back into its more tamed and trim pixie cut. I was way overdo for a cut, but I hate finding a new hairdresser because the texture of my hair requires cutting with a razor rather than with scissors in order not... (more) http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/comments?id=539 http://sonipitts.blogdrive.com/archive/539.html