Hilarious!

Oooh! Alien babies with sticky limbs. It is pretty cool though.

Joan Aiken used this idea in a children's book called "Nightbirds in Nantucket". Only it's a cannon built to shoot a cannonball across the Atlantic ocean and assassinate the King of England. Loved those books...!

That is SO COOL!

Now WHERE did that last Oreo go???

Modesto is not that bad--really! House prices ARE high because all the Bay Area people move here and have driven costs way up. (Houses cost a lot less here and the Baysters seem to be okay with commuting.) Car theft IS bad here, I'll grant you that. But really, Modesto is close to some fabulous, beautiful places - 1.5+/- hours away from the beach, San Francisco, Yosemite, etc.! How many of you mid-westerners can top that? We HAVE grown too fast for our infrastructure but we are trying to improve things. And, even with the downsides I still have no desire to move away from here to somewhere boring and land-locked.