First Time, No Prob

Janie will be jealous. She got an R the first time, and NC-17 after a few rants.

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sex (19x)
shit (2x)
whore (1x)

Smoking Is A Filthy Habit

Especially when you dig up your ashtrays from a cemetery.
Janie found this on the AP wire, and showed it to me.

FITCHBURG, Mass. (AP) — Police say a gravedigger stole body parts – including a skull and a thigh bone – from a broken casket at a church cemetery and took them home to make [...]

Shuttle Play By Play

We’re about 40 minutes from landing, and I’ll be giving the text version in the comments as I watch NASA TV.
Here’s the NASA-TV page with video links, or you can follow along with the Dr. BA here.   He’s cute and more knowlegable, but I have my moments.  Take your pick.

Shuttle To Land In Cali

Via CNN (no word from Dr. BA yet…):
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — For the second day, rain prevented space shuttle Atlantis from landing Friday at the Kennedy Space Center on its first try, leaving NASA managers to decide whether to prepare to land at a backup site in California instead.
“Our mindset down here is we’re [...]

Carnival of Space #8

The eighth edition of Carnival of Space is up at Universe Today.
Great space related science posts from around the blogosphere collected for your reading pleasure.
In this edition, there are posts all sorts of space stuff, from puddles on Mars (or not), to moon madness, to nanobots in the Gobi desert.
Check it out!

Beetles Swallow, Don’t Spit

Via New Scientist:
Buying a lady a drink to win her favour is a trick not confined to men. Some beetle females will mate simply to quench their thirst.
The bean weevil Callosobruchus maculatus feeds on dry pulses. With a diet like this, the male’s ejaculate is a valuable water source for females. Martin Edvardsson at Uppsala [...]