I scanned this picture out of a local newspaper. A man is wanted for allegedly fondling an alleged 7-year-old girl left alone for a minute at a magazine stand at an alleged local supermarket. When witnesses started crowding him he ran away. He is described as “between 45-60 years old, 170 cm tall, grey hair, corpulent etc etc”. A police artist produced this sketch on the basis of witnesses’ descriptions.

Two-thirds of the men in our village fit that description. Most Austrian men do. It could be any of them.

It could even be me, I told Alpha.

“You’re taller than 170 cm,” she said.

Convergent evolution occurs when species with different ancestors evolve to look similar. This occurs as a result of adaptation to living in similar environments. Classic examples of convergent evolution are 1) the body shape of dolphins, sharks, and penguins and 2) the red tube-shaped flowers of plants pollinated by hummingbirds.

See also: Kylie Minogue & Willem Dafoe; and Leni Riefenstahl & David Lee Roth.

Feral Zilla.

[Via urne.dagne.nachtezilla]

Today, I learned that if I oversleep by an hour and a half, I can still make it to work on time, and that if you screw the Gatorade lid on crooked after peeling off the metal/plastic composite seal, it leaks copiously down the front of your shirt.

Prices have been reduced at The Bug Store to the minimum allowed by CafePress.com. That is, the prices are now what CafePress charges, I make no profit on top of that. There was never enough turnover to justify messing with the itty bitty checks I never saw from Cafepress anyway. So, instead of me donating the profits to charity, you buy the stuff if you want, and donate to your own charities directly. I recommend the National Rifle Association. Or, the Alzheimer’s Association.

Joeri has a cool new header.

What a whiny week it was.