Thanks Beck, that makes me feel a little better. I'll just keep an eye on her over the next few days I guess.

Hey Jess, the dog will be fine, the biggest danger is that chicken bones splinter easily and can cut up/get lodged in the throat. If she's alive and well now then that obviously didn't happen. I'm pretty sure they can be digested.

Tired of reading textbooks? Try William Gibson's Neuromancer. You know that term cyberspace that you always use? Yeah, Mr. Gibson came up with that one. He uses it in Neuromancer, but the term first appeared in his book Burning Chrome which was originally published by the science-fiction magazine, Omni (a division of Penthouse, believe it or not!), in 1982. Damn straight- the word cyberspace is about as old as you are.

Other things that come from science-fiction:

the term "Robot": from the book R.U.R. by Karel Capek (the RUR stands for Rossum's Universal Robots)
the idea of a "waterbed": from Robert Heinlein's Stranger In a Strange Land
the everyday phrase "Haul Jet": from George Lucas' Star Wars


And there's MORE too! But I really oughta get back to that paper.

All I can say is

Personally I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and recognize that we're all busy and stressed and just try to tolerate each other's idiosyncrities, interests, obsessions, and freakouts. I mean, isn't that what friends are for? To tolerate you? Or we could settle things in naked mudwrestling bouts. Of course then we'd have people picking fights just to get nekkid.

So I left a couple pieces of KFC on my kitchen table to which my dumbass dog helped herself. I know you're not supposed to feed dogs chicken because they can choke on the bones, but if she's already eaten the chicken (including the bones) do you think she'll be okay? She's sleeping right now. Can dogs digest chicken bones?

Paras, that's because it IS a hoax... I think you knew that, but I'm not entirely sure. However, Brittney DID cover Buddy Rich's classic song "The Beat Goes On". It's a brilliantly composed piece, but everyone seems to love fucking it up for some reason. Sonny and Cher fucked up the whole song LONG before Brittney was even a glint in her father's eye.

And AL, I think you got that STAR WARS quote wrong. It goes like this:

So.... I get the keys to my new apartment this Friday, which means study breaks for the weekend and early next week will consist of moving small shit across the parking lot. It does however mean that I can be moved earlier than the 30th (which is good, because before I only had 6 hours to move everything). If anyone is done exams and has nothing to do on Thursday the 28th (before Jess's whatcha-ma-do) I would appreciate the help. I'll try to grab some dollies and carts from Culligan to make things easier.

It seems so hoaxy, but Oops I Did It Again.

And here you go, Al, Zoroastrianism. For the curious, this came up in conversation about Mehtas unrelated to me, as determined by this religious difference. An example is the famous (though no one I talk to seems to know him) conductor Zubin Mehta who was born into a Parsi (Indian Zoroastrian) family. Another example of this difference is the non-relation between M.K. Gandhi and the political dynasty of Indira Gandhi. (She, of course was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India who was most famous for a style of jacket, and she had married Feroze Gandhi, who changed his name to the famous surname because it was similar to his mother's maiden, Parsi name, "Ghandy". Did you catch all that?)

They say that, for every satire, there's always someone who thinks it's true. Does that mean that the quality of a satire can be measured by the number of people who think it's true?


And I don't know about the fighting Al, but it's got me really fucking pissed off.