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I'm looking to buy a car...finally. After my seizures and blindness is proven to the commonwealth that it's not an issue, I will be allowed to drive! I've been offered, "a 2001 Chevrolet Cavalier, 2 door 4 cylinder VERY easy on gas, runs fine, was my only transportation till recently buying a T...

Well!

And here I thought I was simply banned from the PROCT forum. I had accepted that I had earned it, though I didn't know exactly how and I had chosen not to bother Dale or anybody else with questions of "why?"

It's a bit of a relief to learn that it's not just me! LOL!

Koko Taylor died today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3GLy0tKQ4

Of course there are exceptions and statistical outliers. Some white people live longer than some Japanese people. Some breeds of larger dogs live longer than some breeds of smaller dogs, but over all, smaller dogs live longer.

It's even true among people: Japanese live longer than anybody.

Smaller mice live longer than larger mice, just as smaller dogs live longer than larger dogs.

Do smaller horses live longer than larger horses?

I went with my therapist once to pick up her daughter at the horse place and they had a little tiny horse like that. It was so cute. It reminded of a big clunky dog.

Yes. Will those things calculate inbreeding coefficients, average litter size, have room for genetic information (mice have hundreds of known genetic mutations on dozens of alleles, at least with a cat one there were a couple dozen spaces) and all that stuff? With small livestock you often go throug...

Does anybody have any suggestions for free (or at least relatively cheap) pedigree software? The kind used by small livestock fanciers...whether it's for cats or pigeons or whatever, I can use it (they don't make any specifically for mice). I used to use a cat one but I lost it when my computer cras...

WyoBadger wrote:...a comfortable, slow-moving small town, which grew into a hectic big city, which sort of divided up into neighborhoods, each of which feels more like a small town again.

I think we're a big cult with a lot of subdivisions.

mutepointe wrote:So, what did the Grand Prize Winner of the Contest win?

A quarter million dollars for her charity, an organization called God's Love We Deliver.

http://www.godslovewedeliver.org/whatsn ... ntice.html

...changing dramatically.

What I like about her most is that she's not afraid to make fun of herself (what's left of her, anyway).

(Sorry, somebody said that today and I HAD to use it as a title. Isn't it such an awesome image in your head?) http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2009/05/12/2009-05-12_joan_rivers_forever_the_comeback_kid.html http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/05/12/alg_joan.jpg So Joan Rivers won the Cel...