Monthly Archives: January 2007

In which I provide random and unneeded commentary.

GET HER AWAY FROM HIM!
Ahem.

When Hamsters Attack

Vio­let bit me on the end of my fin­ger so hard that my right hand is actu­ally NUMB. She bruised my fin­ger­nail. Ham­ster acupunc­ture? I think this is the worst a ham­ster bite has ever hurt me…Mortimer didn’t bite, and other than him I’ve only had dwarf ham­sters.
ow ow ow ow ow. I’m actu­ally angry

Politics as unusual

If allow leg­isla­tive dis­tricts to be drawn objec­tively instead of ger­ry­man­dered, the Democ­rats, which make up the major­ity of party reg­is­tra­tions in New York, will win the major­ity of seats, and the two-party sys­tem FAILS!”
There’s a real dan­ger in return­ing to machine pol­i­tics, sure. But it’s cer­tainly not unheard of for New York

Oh, dear.

This search query that led some­one to my blog makes me sad. Some­times I think that my ham­sters don’t like me, either. I know that Vio­let doesn’t, but that’s noth­ing per­sonal. She doesn’t like any humans, and she trusts me more than she did when I first adopted her.
If your ham­ster doesn’t

The king of glory comes; a nation rejoices

On my way out the door, I leave you with this, which Ironic Catholic linked to.
Twenty-five per­cent of Amer­i­cans believe it is at least some­what likely that Jesus Christ will return to Earth in 2007, a new poll from the Asso­ci­ated Press and AOL News shows.
The poll, con­ducted by the inter­na­tional polling firm Ipsos, looked at

Hamsters past

I was clean­ing out my “Movies” folder, and I found this old footage of Nib­bler and a Milk-Bone. Nat­u­rally, I had to set it to music and post it to YouTube.
I miss Nibby.

Otto & Me

Syra­cuse ≠ Flint. Kinda. Some cities need to rein­vent them­selves and some are just beyond redemp­tion.
Can I please have this hat?
I got my dad a Flickr Pro account for Christ­mas. He has been hav­ing a ball with it.
Here’s my mom at the fam­ily farm in the mid-‘60s: