Wednesday Ph.D. Woof

Wednesday MegaWoof: hot Dr. Bob Cargill - safe for work if you can handle his smouldering hotness, scroll down the link for his sultry beardy press pics.

I now have a Twitter account. It's interesting, but I'm still kinda old-fashioned and find even "simple" text messaging to be cumbersome. Twitter is simply annoying to me. I don't care what you're thinking every minute of the day, and I don't think you need to know what I'm thinking every minute of the day either. Instead, I prefer to serve it to you by the slice via blog entries, rather than intravenously throughout the day.

But I do see the usefulness of Twitter for information that actually matters, like the stuff I do for work. When I first set up my personal account on Twitter I discovered that my agency is the only disease- or emergency-management related Federal agency that does not have a Twitter account. And someone else is Twittering about the news I'm supposed to be sharing with the public and the press. How embarrassing. I mentioned to management that at the very least we should have an account to start building a cadre of followers, and use Twitter as a notification system for when we update our website press release page. And if an emergency were to actually happen, we could be ready with this simple notification system. We could have it set up in 10 minutes, but I've been told to wait. How frustrating and pointless. While we're at it, let me throw my toolbox in the dumpster and run around naked and screaming.

Anyway, let's escape to a fantasy world, shall we? I finally went to see Star Trek at an undisclosed location where the shows do not sell out. I thought the casting was brilliant, but the story was kind of busy at times. I mean how many times can you weave time travel into a plot? And let's blow up yet another homeworld while we're at it. But the action was fun, and I really liked Bones and the new kung fu serious Sulu.

I am debating on going backpacking at my usual trails in the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area weather and cam. Some weather reports predict foul skies, some do not, but when you're up there and the weather is shitty, it's really shitty. Plus I've been there enough times to be able to blow off a trip if the weather promises to be uncomfortable. Still on the fence about it, we'll see.

Here is another sober, non-sensational story about H1N1, a disease which has made an acquaintance of mine a little famous in Peru. I advised him to get in touch with his Senate/House representatives and with the U.S. Embassy in Peru, lest they decide to make him into a political tool in some way.

One of my favorite advice columnists, Dr. Andrea Bonior also has some mental health tips for those of you worrying about H1N1 in her Baggage Check column.

Popular gay clothing store Universal Gurl was robbed by brazen theives who were caught on camera. I think they need some 300+ pound doormen who know how to tackle a skinny kid. Choose a single target, bring him down, and waterboard the thief later. His friends will not stick around to retrieve him and he will talk. But that's just me. I do like to buy my package-enhancing colored cotton underwear there, and a pair of tight-butt jeans I purchased there years ago is still in good shape.

Surprise! Newt Gingrich didn't know what the fuck he was talking about regarding the Uighurs. The Uighurs respond to the Gingrich douchebaggery.

And finally this animated graphic, simply because I loved Chris Tucker's "Ruby Rhod" character so much in the film The Fifth Element.