Guys, it's only a two bunny litter box

Uhm, Lookout...

Here we have Lookout asserting her dominance though mouthing behavior.

A lot of people don't realize that even spayed rabbits "mount" as a way of showing dominance. Another factoid that surprises a lot of people is that females are just as likely to mount as males, particularly if they, like Lookout here, are the "Alpha Bunny."

As you can see, Echo and Beanbag aren't impressed with her behavior, and are clearly just waiting for her to finish.

Despite being in charge, Lookout is a bit insecure about her place in the pecking order.

Beanbag and Lookout, hangin' out

They appear to like the freshly cleaned litter box

Echo and Lookout Lounging, Picture 2

Yep, the like the office.

Echo and Lookout Lounging, Picture 1

It looks like they approve of my wife's home office.

My Nephew

My Nephew left this with my parents last time he and my sister visited.

I think it falls cleanly into the "Cute but creepy" category, don't you?

The Trio at Breakfast

The rabbits during their morning feeding. They LOVE their Dandelion Greens

Holly contemplates the photographer

Echo tries to get inot the bag of papaya chunks

Beanbag Contemplates Romp Time

Echo snags some papaya

The Family Crest

Welcome to my office

You gotta love the air conditioning in basement offices.

Why do I keep ending up working in basements? It's a distressing pattern. I start off working in a room with a window, and then after about two years, I'm in a basement. I half expect to look over my shoulder and see Milton asking about his red stapler.

Bush Illegally Silences Critic of Iran Policy

"Flynt Leverett -- former CIA analyst, NSC member and established foreign policy expert -- has written an op-ed for the NYT bashing the Bush admin. for it's failed policies towards Iran. The WH, in typical ruthless and authoritarian form, has pressured the CIA to heavily redact his draft on the grounds that it would reveal national security secrets -- something the CIA disagrees with -- and have even threatened him with criminal prosecution. Leverett, visibly distraught at his press conference today, has countered that this claim is a "fraudulent" and deliberate attempt to silence a respected critic by politicizing the CIA review process"

The Machines are in Control Now...

Kinda puts the electronic voting machines thing in perspective, doesn't it?

Fwd: Can This Ad Restore Habeas Corpus?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anthony D. Romero, ACLU <Executive_Director@aclu.org>
Date: Dec 19, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: Can This Ad Restore Habeas Corpus?

Click to view the full ad We've identified 25 members of Congress whose votes will make or break efforts to restore habeas corpus, stop torture, and end warrantless spying. Now, we urgently need more supporters like you in key Congressional districts. Your gift today will help create hometown pressure for our efforts to reclaim lost liberties. Help Run the Ads That Can Make It Happen. Donate Now! Dear Matthew, "We need more people. And we need them in the right places." That's what our legislative director, Caroline Fredrickson, told me when I asked her what we need to win real civil liberties victories in the new Congress. That's why we're running ads where it will count to build up our hometown strength. The ACLU's membership has more than doubled in recent years. But, in too many congressional districts, we still lack the hometown strength we'll need in the weeks ahead to restore habeas corpus, stop torture, and reclaim our lost liberties. We must raise enough money to run ads for each of our top 25 targeted Congressional Districts. Just how many ads we're able to run is going to be up to you. Please view the districts and then support our ad campaign now. In each of these places, we're looking for someone almost exactly like you. Same values. Same passionate commitment to freedom. Same determination to reclaim our lost liberties. But not necessarily the same hometown. For example, on the 40-member House Judiciary Committee, there are nine key representatives in districts where we absolutely need more ACLU members -- more members for those critical, decisive votes in Congress. With the help of ACLU supporters like you, we're going to run newspaper ads in local papers like the El Paso Times in Texas, the Greensboro News and Record in South Carolina and the Springfield News-Leader in Missouri. Our goal: attract thousands of new ACLU members and supporters in our crucial 25 targeted Congressional Districts. Help run the ads that will give the ACLU the strength to make genuine progress for freedom in 2007. You've done so much to stand up for freedom in 2006. If you want all of your hard work to pay off, now is the time to do even more. Help support our ad campaign and other wide-ranging efforts to build the strength we need to win in 2007. Let's make sure we don't fall a few votes short when it's all on the line in the new Congress. We're counting on your help with this very special project. Sincerely, Anthony D. Romero Executive Director ACLU P.S. Please view the 25 Congressional Districts, and then make a gift to help us run ads and build our base of support in as many of them as we possibly can.

Quotes of the Day

Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns

A thousand pages of hobbits hasn't been enough for three generations of post-World War II fantasy fans; even when you add in that clumsy, galumphing dirigible of an epilogue, The Silmarillion, it hasn't been enough. Hence Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony, Robert Jordan, the questing rabbits of Watership Down. and half a hundred others. The writers of these books are creating the hobbits they still love and pine for; they are trying to bring Frodo and Sam back from the Grey Havens because Tolkien is no longer around to do it for them.

- Stephen King

The rabbits in the new digs

Test

Giants: Citizen Kabuto Cheats (PC)

The cheats below only work on the CD version. If you install any patches, the cheats no longer work.

On the bright side, none of the Nude Delphi hacks interfere with the cheats below.

Game Cheats
During gameplay you can hit the T or Y button and enter in one of the following codes and hit enter:

Display Frame Rate	Fr
Full Base Energy	Basefillerup
Full Health	Pleasehealme
Instant Gift Shop	Gimmiegifts
Instant Party House	Itsmyparty
Instant Smarty Work Force	Basepopulate
Show Entire Map	Mapshowitall
Speedy Base Construction	Basegoveryfast
Unlimited Mana	Ineedspells
Unlock All Levels	allmissionsaregoodtogo

Silly Dating Site Ad

Crass? Yes, Silly? Yes, but to the right is the image I encountered on a random technology site.

I wonder what they're trying to imply. I can't quite put my finger on it (And if I did, I suspect my wife would be a wee bit upset)

419 Takes a new twist

It seems the 419 Scammers are trying a few twists to keep reeling in the suckers. I just got one that followed the "Son of a wealthy man" theme, but instead of being a Nigerian banker or politician, it's a Farmer.

Yes, that's right, I just got an e-mail form someone claiming to be the son of a murdered farmer from Zimbabwe, looking to move $18 million out of a South African Bank.

From: "evan zuma" To: mrevanzumafamily7@hotmail.com Subject: very urgent and important Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:30:53 +0000

During the current war against the farmers i Zimbabwe from the supports of our
President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white-owned farms to his party
members and his followers, he ordered all the white-owned farmers to
surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers.
My father was one of the best farmers in our country and because he did
not
support his idea, supporters invaded my father’s farm and burnt
everything
in the farm, killing my father and made away with a lot of items in my
father’s farm. After the death of my father, my mother and I and my
younger
sister decided to move out from Zimbabwe because our lives were in
danger
with the money my father kept in his hidden safe in my mother’s house.
The
amount contained in the safe is US$18.500m (Eighteen million and Five
Hundred Thousand, US dollars)and we decided to move to the Republic of
South
Africa where we deposited the money in a Security Company as valuables.
So, I decided to contact overseas Firm that will assist me to move this
money out of South Africa, because we are asylum seekers here in South
Africa which disqualifies from operating an account or getting involved
in
any financial transaction here in South Africa.

Naturally, I sent a wise ass response:

Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:59:52 -0700 (PDT)

Pardon me, but where the Hell does a FARMER come up with $18 Million????

Unless of course he was raising something illegal, or was in fact a land baron oppressing his workers, in which case it's a good thing that the land was taken from him and turned over to the people who were actually working it.

You're either running a scam of some kind, or your Father deserved his death and you have no right to the blood money he accumulated on the suffering of others.

Alex Keaton

The truth about Barbara Bauer

So awhile back, Barbara Bauer tried to get SF Interesting Person and Tor Editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden fired. Bauer was threatening to sue Tor for libel for something TNH had said in a private capacity.

TNH had linked to the Writers Beware 20 Worst Agents list, which Barbara Bauer is on. (She's third!) Writers Beware is an organization loosely associated with the SFWA.

Bauer has, by dint of being annoying, gotten a respected web site which talks about publishing scams shut down. They're busy recovering and such, but... still.

So! Barbara Bauer. Sterling person. Honest.

(This is the same process by which people got 'miserable failure' linked to 'George W. Bush' in Google. Unless Google did that manually.)

Intersting bit of SPAM

I got some interesting SPAM the other day. I've included the details below.

I've never had any dealing with this group, never heard of them and can't find any actual details with a Google search.

The web site was also fairly amateurish, but it's down now, and I neglected to mirror it while it was still up.

Oh well, another scam bites the dust.

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