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OK, joking, I know that its not. But it could be!

69-year old man tears thru 39 phonebooks to regain world record.

39. Phonebooks.

I’d like to take a look at the books that he was using, but I figure I’d be lucky to get thru one.

Animals in mating season tend to lose their minds a little bit. (This should be obvious to anybody that’s been to the Wild Coyote…)

Apparently, trainers should really be especially careful while their elephants are in mating season because its not often you hear things like this: “The zookeeper was rushed to hospital where his liver was found to be ripped into four pieces, the Xinhua news agency said.”

Personal update

financial coercion by the state of rhode island has induced our company to relocate to the city of woonsocket. in three or so years, my commute has increased from 30 seconds (walking from kitchen to living room) to 35 minutes (driving from worcester). if this rate of increase holds, i’ll be commuting to mars in a couple decades.

Tap tap tap tap DING! ziiiiiiik…

i’ve always done my writing with a word processor, the first of which was speedscript on a commodore 64 (source code manually typed in). but trying to get some writing done after spending all day on a computer at work is a kind of torture on the eyeballs. so i went onto ebay and got myself this beautiful machine: portable royal typewriter, circa 1940. ain’t it great? all the metal parts are still shiny. at $26+shipping, a definate steal.

slanty3d vs. the us medical system

so, i had to go to the doctor the other day. luckily, i now have medical coverage under blue cross blue shield from our company. the free market is supposedly about choice, but under this system it seems i have far less choice than i did in canada. you can’t just go anywhere — i had to go to the blue cross website to find a list of approved doctors. then after getting my prescription for antibiotics from my approved doctor, i went to the pharmacy (a major chain), to discover that they wouldn’t accept my insurance – which is crazy, since blue cross is huge. the second pharmacy accepted my insurance but didn’t carry that drug. i had to go to a third to get my drugs. the only happy part of this story is that my insurance gave me the privilege of kicking aside the homeless and the un- and under-insured on my way into the clinic.

It’s not so much a ‘fly’ bar.. it’s a flybar…

As host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics, I can only hope that we can do better than the Greek effort for Olympic mascots.

The (mascots) were derided in various news articles, described as animated condoms and mutants from a nuclear meltdown.

full story

Jake 2.0 is out of our reach financially
Yeah, well now some crazy company is offering pet cloning as a real service, for the cool price of $50K. Their first successes are a pair of kittens called Tabouli and Baba Ganoush (how cute). I know that people fall in love with their pets, but with so many lonely little choices to love, I don’t see how anybody could justify the expense.

Our intrepid webmaster, having returned from the islands in the North (but not nearly as far North as Bard) has been very very busy. So, we’ve got some catching up to do, you’ll have to make do with a three in one.

Slanty needs money
I’m betting that we (SlantyNet), having survived Slanty I, II, marriage and babies, will around for a good while at least. Accordingly, I have renewed the domain for five years for a total bill of $CAD 144.18. We’re accepting donations and if you’re not from in town and feel like donating by PayPal, feel free to email me and we’ll set something up. I’d set up one of those swish little buttons, but I don’t feel like registering for a PayPal account right now.

Weekly elephant: Couldn’t we just say “pigmentation challenged”?
A real-life white elephant has been spotted in Sri Lanka.

A rare albino elephant has been spotted roaming Sri Lanka’s Ruhunu National Park, the first recorded sighting in the country.

The pale-skinned pachyderm, thought to be around 11 years old, lives with a 17-strong herd of adult females and youngsters. Tracking the herd’s movements could help researchers devise new strategies for the protection and management of Sri Lanka’s elephants

This will not cure shy bladder syndrome
SlantyBard found some pictures of a public bathroom in Switzerland that has walls of one-way mirror. Uh… I think I might have a problem with it.

So we decided the house of SlantyK needed more residents than a man, a wife, and a gimped up dog, so the only way to change the situation is the SlantyG style; un-expectantly.

Meet all 16 of our newest brood. Needless to say 16 are a few too many for our humble aquatic abode so if your name isnt Slanty2D, Dan, Daniel, Bubbles, or Summer Sven; take my babies, please.

You would think that would be the end of our journey to parent-dom, but no; remember the theory is un-expectant. So let me introduce Herman. We have no idea with what to do with Herman since Haley found it wandering in a communal garden (right now its in a cardboard box in the bathtub). If anyone has any new parenting advice for one such as this, any suggestions are welcome (except for the roasting over an open fire ideas).

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