Happy Samhain, everyone. Don’t forget to carve your turnips, to guide the dead on their journey.
As soon as I could collect my scattered senses, I found myself nearly suffocated, and groveling in utter darkness among a quantity of loose earth, which was also falling upon me heavily in every direction, threatening to bury me entirely.
Quotation from Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
I think the bartender was flirting.
I am not a sexy woman. I’m not beautiful. I’m not a sex kitten. I don’t flirt with people, yet I’ve been tagged more of a sex symbol than women who truly are– and I that’s solely because I don’t reveal too much. People are curious.
Quotation from Shirley Manson
I like my women like I like my coffee… covered in bees!
Quotation from Eddie Izzard
The photo of Coco in today’s comic was taken by Elaine, who has an awesome photo page called Elaine Remains. Coco passed away last Saturday.
Every dog carries an ID in his back pocket, so to speak. On each side of the rectum is an anal sac, which contains a strong-smelling fluid. This fluid is the equivalent of a dog’s thumb-print. With a quick sniff, dogs can tell more about each other than we could determine by rifling through one another’s wallets. Dogs can tell the sex, age, health, reproductive status, diet, and mood from those smells. They get all the information they need to decide whether they want to associate with that dog and what kind of relationship they ought to have.
Quotation from Dog Behavior: When Dogs Lick & Sniff “Private” Places (BestBetPetSupplies.com)
Unwanted romantic attention is sexual spam. Sure, you can sexually spam a thousand people and– maybe– get laid once, but what’s the point?
Researchers Become Spammers To See How Successful Spam Is (TechDirt.com) Computer scientists at the University of California took over a zombie network to send out bogus spam and watch the fake orders roll in. Except they didn’t get many orders. They sent out 350 million spam messages, and received a grand total of 28 orders. But, even accepting the researchers’ numbers, they found that the full zombie network they used could probably bring in about $7k per day, or about $2 million per year.