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@lucifargundam I imagine it's still occupied in its new site (at which I cannot get).

Earlier today a few wasps milled about where the next was. Will they rebuild it? Stay tuned!

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For at least a month I have watched wasps build a nest in the eaves by my bathroom window. (No danger of their getting in.)

Between yester shower and today's, it vanished; evidently it got too heavy for its glue.

@trinsec At least this morning I can walk to the bathroom sans cane.

@LizardSF I also like how “fearsome predators” are not necessarily meat-eaters.

Source?

You should send it to Ansible.

Quid fecisti sors turpissima?

Some days my ankles make me pay for years of exceeding their design load. This morning my **right** ankle was sore, so I got out my cane. Then, as I dodged some furniture, my cane got in the way of my **left** foot, mildly – or so I thought – twisting the ankle. The right ankle soon recovered to a tolerable degree, but the left has been worse all day!

On a neutral station like Babylon 5, recurring events ought to be scheduled on a “week” that is the least common (acceptably near) multiple of all participants' day cycles

Darn it, cat, do I trample *you* when you're trying to sleep?

@avram Nah, the orb symbolizes his commitment to the conspiracy to conceal the fact that the Earth is Flat.

More generally, some days my Mac simply will not open a Save As dialog.

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@scorpiontongue Disarming domestic abusers would at least save us a bundle on police salaries

Today I learned that Veronica Mars's father was previously the Thermian leader in «Galaxy Quest». D'oh!

@Popehat I am faintly disappointed that you corrected “egocentricity” to “geocentricity”; I imagined a radical economist proposing a distributed version of the principle of self-interest.

cancer, death, horrible relatives 

@LizardSF You know, it's a long time since I last heard those last four words.

Reading 20yo blogs and webcomics and wondering how dated they are to those who aren't so far out of touch as I am

Can something be a be-all *xor* an end-all?

Is there any polytheism in which the creator is the most important god?

“So you made the world, good on you; but what have you done for me lately?”

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