But That's My Side!

Mercy Medical Center, Mount Shasta: Adrienne is recovering from the Komodo Kitty bite, or rather she's recovering from the vile and pernicious bacterial infection, which, untreated, would have made her a dead person by today. It's been pretty hard on her.

For one thing, Dr. Miller has installed tiny tubes inside her fingers which drip gorilla-cillin down into the infection, and she has these two valves which must be reset every hour. Drip on one tube, then drip on the other tube, then drip on the last tube.

Even on a Serta-brand mattress, waking once hourly for carburator adjustments does not make for a good night's sleep.

And the lack of sleep is taking its toll.

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Komodo Kitty

Mercy Medical Center, Mount Shasta: I mean, bad kitty! Bad cat! It happened like this ...

Adrienne was taking care of a kitty for some friends. The kitty's name is Kitty, which is odd because when my brother David was a child, he also had a kitty named Kitty. That's some kind of coincidence!

So as to prevent cat conflagration, we kept Kitty out of the house, which means he's been batching it with me in my office, and hanging out in the garage.

The trouble started when he escaped a few nights ago.

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Drinking Responsibly during the Holidays

From The Onion: "If someone you know is too drunk to drive, demand that he let you have his car keys. If he refuses, pull out a gun and demand the car keys again. This also works with people who are not drunk, and whom you do not know."

Want more handy tips? Visit The Onion's Tips Section.

That Big Bang Sound

13.7 Billion Years Ago: Bang!

Or was it? That is, what did it sound like, really?

Recently, an 11-year-old boy asked physicist John Cramer this question. And to answer the question, Cramer, working at the University of Washington in Seattle, has made a sound file so that you can hear the Big Bang for yourself.

Here's how:

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