Not Enough Lap

Aww!

Intuitive User Interfaces

A New Turing Test

Was this packed by a human or a robot?

Confederate Statues

We should have left these up, because apparently bad things happen when you try to erase history.

You’ve Been Gone?

Proof that they miss you when you've been gone for weeks.

Or, at the very least, wonder why the heater in their favorite chair stopped working.

Which Way is Up?

Lost and Found

On the lam for 15 days. Thank goodness for animal traps and canned fish.

Lap Cat

Steppin' Out

Mark Riley • Gary Riley • Dave Riley. June 1963.

Happy Father's Day.

Cat Condo

Whatever

Starting with the "Michael the 3th" incident, we decided just to take whatever they gave us on their first attempt.

Lawyerese

You'd think "Enter at your own risk" would be sufficient warning for a petting zoo...

But apparently not.

Halloween Candy Roundup

There's two approaches for buying Halloween candy. You can buy candy you don't like—I'm thinking of you Bit-O-Honey—in which case you can buy it far in advance of Halloween, or you can buy candy you like, preferably on the day of Halloween so that you don't have to buy more candy once you've eaten it all.

In addition to a variety of chocolate candies for everyone in the house, I bought a bag of Sweetarts, Nerds, and Laffy Taffy:



This year's Skulls & Bones Sweetarts consisted only of lemon, grape, and cherry flavors, my favorites. Blue punch and green apple, which I don't particularly care for, were missing.

I love Nerds of any flavor, but after breaking a crown on one I limit myself to a couple of small boxes on Halloween.

I also haven't met a flavor of Laffy Taffy that I wouldn't eat, but this year's Halloween themed caramel apple is not one of my favorites. For some reason (maybe too much heat) the wrappers and taffy were fused in the few I tried making it very difficult to eat the candy. I'll definitely be passing these on to the trick-or-treaters.

As always, the Halloween Laffy Taffy has themed jokes:

Q: What type of witch makes the best lunch?
A: A sand-witch.

Q: What kind of car does a ghost driver?
A: A Boo-ick (Buick).

Q: Why do witches fly on brooms?
A: Because vacuum cleaners are too heavy!

Q: What did the trick or treat bucket say to the candy?
A: Hello sweet thing!

Q: Why did they carve a big mouth into the pumpkin?
A: So he could scream and howl!

Q: Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
A: Because he had no guts.

Q: Who mans a ghost ship?
A: There's a skeleton crew.

Q: What do ghosts add to their morning cereal?
A: Boo-berries!

Q: What kind of music do mummies listen to?
A: Wrap!

Q: How do you fix a Jack O'Lantern?
A: With a pumpkin patch.

Q: How does a girl vampire flirt?
A: She bats her eyes.

Q: Who did Frankenstein take to the prom?
A: His ghoul friend.

Q: What is a ghoul's favorite flavor?
A: Lemon-slime.

Q: What do you call a skeleton who won't work?
A: Lazy bones.

Q: What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman?
A: Frostbite.

Busted

Just seconds away from a cabinet full of paper towel confetti.

Are We Getting Fed Now?

Blep

Apparently there's a word for this.

Leonard Nimoy Tribute

A selfie mosaic from William Shatner and a bunch of Star Trek fans.

Little Kitty No-Legs

The cat kept clawing up the furniture, so we had her delegged.

She was not happy about that.

Texas Rising

History Channel’s ‘Texas Rising’ goes beyond Alamo siege:

The landscape in “Texas Rising” mostly looks and feels like Texas, but without all the skyscrapers and air conditioning. It’s hot, dusty and scrubby. At one point, though, Sam Houston, elegantly played by Bill Paxton with some killer sideburns, sets up camp on a mountain with a stunning view — even though there would not have been breathtaking vistas where Houston and the Texas Rangers were plotting to defeat the Mexican army.

“Those early episodes were all shot in Durango, Mexico,” said David Marion Wilkinson, a writer and co-producer on the project. “The settings don’t match. San Jacinto was all piney woods and bayous. Gonzales is flat land and farm land. ... But this is entertainment. I don’t think the geography is going to bother too many people.”

It bothered me.