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Squirrels kill dog
Oh man, this is too funny, ROFLMAO!
Squirrels kill dog:
David Pescovitz:
A pack of squirrels at a park in the Lazo village of Russia’s Maritime Territory reportedly ganged up on a stray dog that was barking up at them in the trees. Witnesses say the squirrels jumped down, attacked the dog, and killed it. From the BBC News:
“They literally gutted the dog,” local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
“When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them.”
Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack.
While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds’ nests, he said, the idea of them chewing at a dog to death was “absurd”.
“If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests,” he added.
Link (Thanks, Paul Saffo!)
Cool puzzles at Carneige Mellon CS site
Mr. Toad lives on a vertex of a 3-regular planar graph. He decides to take a walk along the edges of the graph. He has no sense of direction but he can tell left from right. He decides that he will alternately take the left edge and then the right edge when he comes to the next vertex. Show that he will he eventually get back home.
More puzzles: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/puzzle/
43 Places
Went to 43Things, and discovered 43 Places, cool stuff!
Here’s my 43 Places: http://www.43places.com/person/ayn… I’m sure I’ve missed some places I’ve been to, most of them were long long time ago…
Top Gear RS4 video
Top Gear RS4Top Gear13 min 51 sec – Nov 22, 2005
I like it!
Think Labyrinth: Maze Algorithms
Geek to Live: Ten Must-Have Bookmarklets – Lifehacker
Geek to Live: Ten Must-Have Bookmarklets – Lifehacker
Interesting, 10 bookmarklets will occupy too much space on my browsers’ toolbars, IMO… In Safari, I have WP’s Blog This, Ecto‘s ectoize, and the del.icio.us buttons. I have the same ones except ectoize in Firefox. I don’t think I have any bookmarklet in Flock, as del.icio.us and blogging features are built-in.
GTA: Liberty City Stories
Broke down and picked up GTA: Liberty City Stories at the EB Games across the street from the new H&M in SF… it’s hard to drive in this f’king game… and it’s kindda hard to hold onto the PSP and control the steering… I just suck in video games…
Anyway, I’ve spent about an hour playing this thing… Right now, I am doing a mission to go pick up a couple gangster brothers at a gas station shootout, last time I attempted this I picked up a van that was too slow and got chased down by the f’king cops… Next time I’ll see if I can find an Evo or an STi to jack… Needed a car big enough to carry a bunch of gangsters…
SF Auto Show writeup by Jason
Jason and I went to the opening day of the SF Auto Show, he just posted a very detail writeup at Carmudgeons.com. It pretty much sums up the day in the post. Basically the coolest car we saw was a silver Ruf 996 Turbo R on King Street on the way to the auto show, it was clean, he didn’t even have a radar detector on his windshield, the exhaust also sounded very mean. On the floor, we liked the new Civic Si the best. It was quite a car, only thing I hated on that car was the e-brake handle, it looks like a small u-know-what. I found an iPod dock connector in the glovebox, very cool! Without NAV, it’s priced at under 20k, that is a crazy deal for the performance and the exclusivity. You know this car will not depreciate at all!
Quite sadly, neither of us were impressed by any of the new offerings by BMW… The M5’s numbers look good, we’ve seen the writeup on m5board, but it’s one FUGLY car with a high-reving motor that is most likely gonna blow up when driven hard. The Audi RS6 was much more interesting, and it looks badass to boot!
I hope I’ll see the Ruf Turbo R at one of the nearby tracks one of these days, it certainly belongs on one.
Thanksgiving
JenJen, Sherry and I spent Thanksgiving at my place this year. I reserved a turkey from Honey Baked Ham, picked it up Wednesday morning, which was probably their busiest day in the year as we spent a good half hour waiting in line, even though I had a reservation number on my Treo. Took about 2 hours to heat it up in the oven, Sherry and Jen felt like baking something else so they found some recipe for cookies and muffins at Food Network, they turned out okay…
We managed to finish most of the dark meat if the turkey, the rest was carved up in pieces and with it we made soup, and then congee. Great stuff… 🙂
Here’s a snapshot of the turkey:
Muffins:
Cookies: