Monthly Archives: January 2008

Babies, in film form

Ham­ster babies! Awww!

Warning: may cause squealing

I have a whole album of baby ham­ster pho­tos that I’m prep­ping for the Web. Here is a small pre­view of the GRADE A ADORABLE com­ing your way.

There is such a thing as bad publicity

AN ARCHIVIST DID WHAT?!
ALBANY — A long-time state archivist was accused of steal­ing hun­dreds of his­toric arti­facts and doc­u­ments from the New York State Library, includ­ing two Davy Crock­ett Almanacs, and sell­ing some pieces on eBay.
Daniel Lorello, 54, an archives and records man­age­ment spe­cial­ist in the state Edu­ca­tion Depart­ment, was arraigned Mon­day on charges of third-degree grand

An open letter

…though I think I will actu­ally write a let­ter to the com­pany about this.
Dear Talk­ing Phone Book,
Peo­ple will be much more likely to use your phone books and not pitch them directly into the trash if you don’t dump them at the end of their dri­ve­ways, in a prime spot for the peo­ple to RUN OVER

Welcome to life, little beasts!

My lit­tle hammy angels.  It turns out that there are seven of them.  At least two will prob­a­bly have Dreamsicle’s col­or­ing, which is orange and white banded.  A few have sort of a tor­toise­shell col­or­ing, and another is dark gray and white banded.
They started eat­ing solid food yes­ter­day, and it’s very cute to look in

Quizzes

Which Lost Char­ac­ter Are You?Cre­ated by Bud­dyTV
Which Char­ac­ter From The Office Are You?Cre­ated by Bud­dyTV
Who is Your Ideal TV Boyfriend?Cre­ated by Bud­dyTV
Which Char­ac­ter on The Simp­sons Are You?Cre­ated by Bud­dyTV
Which Amer­i­can Idol Per­son­al­ity Are You?Cre­ated by BuddyTV

No matter what your point of view…

…on either abor­tion or reli­gion, I just can’t imag­ine the thought process where some­one decided that this was a good idea.  Though the more I men­tion this to peo­ple, I find that a lot of peo­ple think it was a fine idea.  Me, I grew up in a fairly lib­eral church that was still very

Vacation has its reasons

I’ve been watch­ing “The Daily Show” more or less since it debuted (the Kil­born era), but some­how didn’t dis­cover the com­mu­nity of Daily Show/Colbert Report fans on the Inter­net until last year.  I’m not quite sure how I missed out on it, but I do find that par­tic­i­pat­ing in a fan com­mu­nity can suck all

Designed for ME

It’s almost as if some­one designed a pet specif­i­cally with me in mind:
A hamster-sized dog!

Cats have librarians

My books need to be alpha­bet­ized (I know, bad librar­ian, right?)  Clearly I should own a cat, so this can be done for me.
I’ve been try­ing to find homes for the ham­ster babies, and it seems that most of my friends would hap­pily take one, except that they have cats.   I’m not sure if it’s