More things learned at the FASS camping weekend

A: There's probably a reason nobody hands me babies.

B: Once a baby decides it wants to be upside down, they can be very stubborn about it.

Not that I would likely do better

Car turning right onto Charles almost gets in a fender-bender by cutting another car off. Spends from Ontario to Queen in right lane, left turn indicator blinking; they do not change lanes. Emergency lights come on just as they cross Queen, stop after a quarter block.

It had Driving School logo on top of the car.

Things I learned today

This kitten is missing near Stanley Park Mall

Update: the kitten was found!


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Dear mosquito bites

I have scratched you until you bled. What more do you want?

Good news! Remember that lost black and white kitten?

I found a lost black and white cat! Well, not so much found as it asked to be let in.

Bad news! IT'S NOT THE ONE THAT WAS REPORTED LOST THIS MORNING! It's much older, very friendly (although not towards other cats [1]), and not spayed. And a bit of asking around ended with people in the condo complex saying he's been around for a week, trying to get into houses. Which is to say, another dumped cat and one who looks suspiciously like Fig, who we also think was dumped. The eyes are different but the build and colouring are similar and they have similar mannerisms.

Very, very hungry. Also quite willing to chow down on my hand and arm so I call him Bitey.

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I can see no way in which this could be horribly abused

University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.

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Their research was funded in part by [...] the U.S. Army Research Office [...]

China in Space: Threat or Menace?

The answer is "which can we use to scare the USG into funding more space stuff?"

As touted here: Leonard David's "Is China's Space Program Shaping a Celestial Empire?"