Clare Dibble

"a growing number of people believe the world of service animals has gotten out of control: first it was guide dogs for the blind; now it’s monkeys for quadriplegia and agoraphobia, guide miniature horses, a goat for muscular dystrophy, a parrot for psychosis and any number of animals for anxiety, including cats, ferrets, pigs, at least one iguana and a duck." - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

I hope you're right! :) - Susan Beebe

Great... I am feeling better now :) - Bindu Reddy

Some friends made these for us for brunch on Sunday. They were delicious. I wish I had a picture to do them justice, but you will just have to make them yourself to experience the taste sensation. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

Man, I bet those would be delicious without the damn nuts! - Gabe

@Gabe - actually, our friends made them without the nuts. They were very tasty. - Robert Felty

Well, weather permitting, and this afternoon, but none the less, I'm excited. - Clare Dibble

Sorry I decided not to come visit, but there's supposed to be a winter storm tonight. - Gabe

Drive safe! Or fly safe! - Ginger Makela

This is without a doubt the craziest thing I've seen as an expectant mom. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

I should point out that as crazy as this sounds, it does sound plausible. - Gabe

While the notion is crazy, it's not out of the world. Different. Strange. But, if it works for one, then good for them. - George Smith

"Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI's espionage section during World War II. If Woodward needed to talk to Felt, he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony. If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something the Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward's home-delivered copy of the New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting. He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn, Va." - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

I'm planning on many more years of adventure with you. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

Happy 30th Birthday! - Maggie

Aww! Great pic! Happy Birthday, Rob!! - April Buchheit

"It is the first facial transplant known to have included bones, along with muscle, skin, blood vessels and nerves. The woman received a nose, most of the sinuses around the nose, the upper jaw and even some teeth, said Dr. Frank Papay, the clinic's plastic surgery chief." - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

"You need a face to face the world." - Clare Dibble

Wow, that was a 22 hour case. I think that's the longest I've ever heard of. - Gabe

"The dollar declined 11 percent against the euro and 8 percent against the yen this month as yields on two-, five-, 10- and 30-year Treasuries fell to record lows, encouraging investors to look outside the U.S. for higher returns." - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

I guess I won't be leaving the country for a while. - Lilly Irani

More dramatic events -- such as earthquakes, wildfires and hurricanes -- may grab headlines, but lumped together, they accounted for only 5 percent of hazard-related deaths, Cutter noted. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

Wow. The midwest is pretty safe. Arkansas and Arizona are not. Yet another reason that I think that people will migrate back to the midwest in the long run -- plenty of water, things grow really well, and not too much extreme weather. - Robert Felty

It's brrrutal. - Ginger Makela

It's finally up to 0F! Pay no attention to the fact it is almost noon... - Clare Dibble

"“Many children do not wear the patch and their vision does not improve,” said Dr. Mitchell M. Scheiman, a professor at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in Philadelphia who led the recent study.”Once the parents put the drops in the child’s eyes, there are no compliance problems. The child now has to use the amblyopic eye for all near work.”" - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

I probably started around 9 or 10, and went pretty frequently (weekly or every other week) the first year or two, eventually slowing to once a year by 16. - Sam Harmon

That's interesting Sam. They say to catch it early, but we had all but abandoned this sort of thing by the time we were 5 or so. Maybe we were actually too young. We had daily exercises (with patches or tape on our glasses) and weekly or biweekly assessment appointments. All that remains today is my fear of object flying at or near me. - Clare Dibble

Want! - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

That takes me right back to elementary school. - Heather Solos

I think maybe I should get one of these for my babby. - Gabe

I was thinking my baby might also want one. He just doesn't know it yet ;) - Clare Dibble

The Cancer Project, a nonprofit cancer prevention organization, has produced a list of what it says are the five unhealthiest items sold at the nation’s largest fast food chains. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

OM NOM NOM NOM - Gabe

"After weeks of trying the group got a Linux kernel specially modified for a potato loaded, and were able to edit a small text file in vi. Linux was loaded onto the potato using a USB thumb drive and commands were sent in binary to the potato using a set of red and black wires." - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

Wonder who mashed the drivers for potato Linux? - Enrique Gutierrez via twhirl

"LOA was the group that first installed Linux on a Shetland pony in 2003, but growing competition from other hacker groups have shut them out in the past five years." And the Related News: "Linux Developer Gets Laid," "Gates Says Linux Best OS Ever," "Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users" I like this site lol - Michael W. May

"Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns out to be the single activity they engage in less often than unhappy people" - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

You should know that those dozen+ javascript and css files make the page take forever to load. - Gabe

Wow! It loaded in only 5 seconds now. - Gabe

@Gabe. That still seems a bit slow, but I guess I can live with that for now. Thanks again for pointing it out. Today should I actually try to get some work done. - Robert Felty

or maybe he is kick boxing in there... I can't really tell. - Clare Dibble

Awww... - April Buchheit

Try singing. My mother swears that she had us trained to fall asleep to a lullaby before we were even born. - Maggie

I like Clare's rendition of "you are my sunshine" - Robert Felty

One of Rob and my friends is entertaining basketball fans this winter. - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet

book burning. flags are just symbols, but books are actually useful. - Chris White

Bump. Sorry! Neither is particularly offensive to me. Objects are objects. All things are, in time, rendered unto dust. Our thoughts remain. - Slippy Lane

book burning, flag burning isn't offensive - Trevor Cook

I don't "like" it, but I am looking forward to seeing the tree next weekend when I am there. - Robert Felty

Is it aluminum or stainless steel? - Gabe

No, mine is green and probably some form of plastic. I think mom still has the aluminum one though. - Clare Dibble

the numbers are a bit out of date. They have Lloyd Carr as the Michigan coach, and he no longer is. I think it is interesting that he was making less than the coach at Iowa, which is not known as a football powerhouse like Michigan (of course Michigan might be losing that reputation as we speak). - Robert Felty

"They lived in tents or in a car. Local kids would tease them, telling them to clean up and bathe. "They'd tell you, 'Go home and take a bath.' You couldn't very well take a bath when you're out in a car [with] nowhere to go." She adds, "We'd go home and cry."" - Clare Dibble via Bookmarklet