That sucks

Really, this is a horrible story:
A street-sweeping truck roaring down a Bronx street sucked up a dog and killed her as her owner held the leash.
Robert Machin said he had just finished walking his two Boston terriers and was about to put them into his car when the truck appeared Thursday morning. The retired transit [...]

Martha mourns Paw Paw’s passing

CNN reports that Martha Stewart’s dog, Paw Paw, has died of renal failure. Now, I love dogs, and I fully understand the bond between people and their pets. No doubt Martha is terribly broken up about this loss and I mean her no disrespect. But there is something terribly, terribly wrong with this story.
According to [...]

Maybe it came from the sewer

A two-and-a-half foot alligator was discovered in a pillowcase on a Long Island, NY, beach.

Rats!

This morning, while enjoying my coffee, I glanced out the kitchen door at my backyard and marveled at the Disneyesque scene: a pair of Cardinals and a Carolina Chickadee were taking turns at the bird feeder. A rabbit was hippity-hopping across the grass. A chipmunk scampered among the shrubs. I actually let out a [...]

Cultivating my garden

The backyard at our new house is coming together. We got a table and chairs for the deck, and a charcoal smoker, so we can now enjoy delicious meals al fresco. We’ve put out some bird feeders, which have started to attract some plumed patronage. This morning I saw a red-bellied woodpecker at the suet [...]

gPod

I got a new pet for my office. Of course, I’m leaving in two weeks, but I’m sure someone else will look after him (assuming he even survives that long).

Banana Slug

Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

Jellyfish

 

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Headless goat in clueless stunt

I couldn’t resist echoing the infamous NY Post headline in response to this story:
GamesIndustry.biz has learned that Sony is to conduct an internal inquiry after hitting the headlines for displaying a decapitated goat at a press event for God of War 2.
“It has come to our attention that at The God of War 2 launch [...]

Service failure

While researching Mississippi law on the distinction between an employee and an independent contractor, I found a case with the kind of amusing facts that make for inclusion in a law school casebook:
IRVING, J., for the court.
¶ 1. Chad Gray sued ABS Global, Inc. over the loss of bull semen when a liquid nitrogen freezer [...]