Randy Cassingham writes the most popular email newsletter in the world (now that Boing Boing has become an RSS feed).  He says:

[G]enetic sequencing has shown that the current H1N1 pandemic virus is an amalgam of four different strains: North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza, and a swine influenza virus ( Read more... )

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After yesterday's post, kid #1's trip diary showed up in my email inbox first thing this morning, although the matter hadn't been mentioned in over a week.  Not speaking to anyone in particular, but kid #1 is older than d3monspawn, whose mother is hakeber and grandmother loud4singingI finished typing in all the receipts in the "Mass. trip" pile.  Now I need to cross-check the ( Read more... )

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1. I can no longer play the piano.  I actually sat down at one, for perhaps the first time since about 1992 1994 Hanukkah 1995.  I was able to pick out bits and pieces, but couldn't remember enough notes to play anything through.  Also, I kept losing notes on the left paw but not the right, so every other measure or so I would find myself "off by one ( Read more... )

(Cargo Weasel says he'll unfriend anyone who uses the "autopost" meme to generate journal entries, but he never added me, so he CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS POST-mwahahaha!  Tech note: Generated using the "dissociated-press" feature in GNU Emacs, and then pruning of the less-funny results.)

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Here is a Q&A with the general public on Dave's perennial bid for the presidency of the USA.

Q. How many times can the cannonballs fly, before they're forever banned?
A. The answer, my friend, is 42.