Before zipping on down to the original topic of the post, cbullitt over at SOYLENT GREEN has plugged a product for me! And I’m happy that he’s happy with it, too.
You should think of it as a congratulatory gift mug for his 1,000,000th blog hit a week or so ago.
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Aggie over at Hookers and Booze put up a little quiz that she got from elsewhere (I won’t list the tree of dispersal beyond that other than to say she got it from iOWT). It’s not a new quiz but it is an interesting quiz.
I lie at top dead center and wobble to the right a hair on the censorship issue, mainly because I believe some types of speech are never defensible as “free speech”. Calling for the injury of others, harassment, exploitation of kids, etc., are things I can’t condone and never will.
Mainly I believe most all laws should be kept local, but obviously there are some exceptions. People are a whole lot more likely to keep BS to a minimum if they have to sink, swim, or wallow in their own filth.
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Speaking of spoilage and filth, here’s a handy little posting about the facts of spoilage and pathogen-plagued foodstuff. Interesting stuff that I never knew. Is it all true? I don’t know. It passes my first sniff test, though.
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Did I post this yet? I cannot recall where it came from other than through a google surf session. I think it is a lemur of some kind but it’s all saccharine-ly sweet and all. Gotta be a lemur or some critter in that area of the genetic tree – lookit the eyes.
Lemur King's Folly 
The cuteness, it melts me!!
It’s sweetly cute like eating sugar cubes drenched in honey. I’m guessing that it is a valid defense mechanism because nothing is gonna eat something that cute.
Nice avatar, btw.
It’s funny but I always pictured you as having a head and two arms.
Come to think of it, there’s no way that could be you because you’re a blonde. You trying to pull a fast one here? But I do approve of the machete-wielding zombie-killer notion. Texans rock.
You’re right…it isn’t me. I am a blonde, after all.
Don’t tell SG. He’ll be crushed 😉
Poor bastard. He’s probably already read this and is silently weeping.
i have often wondered why you show the coelacanth as extinct on the cup.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/coelacanth/
You are right, hilljohnny, it isn’t extinct.
I believe cb and I discussed it and felt that “Endangerment Dollars” would benefit from being kind of a melange of scarce and long-gone critters.
It’s certainly one of the more striking critters and is recognizable on sight, which is the other criteria for critters – they had to be unusual and recognizable. And the more at-risk a population seemed, the better, all to tweak the noses of eco-terrorists.
For a while there, readers would suggest animal pairs that they felt were appropriate, like pairing chocolate with peanut butter or deep-frying sticks of butter.
There’s a few that I feel like I should go back and do now that I have p-shop and am not using GIMP. GIMP does have some features and approaches I long for at times though.
Entirely too cute to be allowed.
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that said… oh… wait… you meant the furry critter didn’t you?
I’m sorry I just can’t help it, that critter in the last pic just looks deee-licious.