I don't think Dennis (Stalking Cat) is really after the attention. I live near him, yet rarely see him in public. If he wants attention, all he has to do is walk down the street -- he'll get your attention.

I've seen him in the theatre over town ("over town" means off the island), and the most notable thing about him was his groupies. There were about half a dozen semi-furries, with some sort of cat decoration:
ear headband, tail hanging from belt, painted face, etc. Dennis was like the head cat. It was very surreal, and kind of sad.

Why are they so sure there's only one of these puppies swimming around out there?

Anybody for a swim in Lake St. Clair?

Here's hoping they can't survive a Michigan winter....

Whenever I hear about some bank robber being identified in some idiotic way, I always think that maybe the police have the wrong guy. I mean, how difficult would it be to leave behind someone else's resume? Someone who resembled you. The 'witnesses' would all be biased to identify the person whose picture was on the resume.

Likewise when someone "uses their own" deposit slip -- perhaps it was just some random dudes deposit slip, but the police are going for the easy solve.

Not that I'm underestimating the propensity for criminals to do stupid things, but the police are just as stupid sometimes.

I got 5 pages in, at 25 movies per page, before I realized you not only have to click "Seen it", then enter a score, but also click "Submit", and wait for each movie to score.

What a PITA. I agree with Ryan that a better scoring system is needed, particularly since the critics nearly universally use a 5-star scale. Why does the average Joe suddenly need 100 stars?

If I want to spend my time on movie information, I'll stick with the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

http://rockhoppersdailygrind.blogspot.com/2007/07/for-movie-lovers.html

I'm telling you, Bob, it's a camera!

You can get this for much more of the Seattle area, including King, Peirce, and Snohomish counties, at http://www.commtrans.org/
or at
http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov/cgi-bin/itin_page.pl?resptype=U

I'm sure it will be a nice feature at some point, but for now there are better solutions.

I've seen this happen before. I predict it will end badly.

The human brain is truly hard-wired to see faces.

You can spin the propellor nose and get an engine to start.

It is the business end of a lightning/ spark generator, used for testing Radio-frequency interference.

Jesus -- this is totally eff'd up.

See you in a week or two, when I can be sure not to run into this kind of crap.

WooHoo! Look, I'm one of the cool kids now!

It's no worse than Kansas, who enclosed an egg in a crochet blanket and glued on some miniature wheat stalks, or West Virginia, which isn't even an egg -- I think.

Which size butter does it fit, East coast or West coast -- or is there one for each size?

I think it's a childs cap toy. You insert the cap into the toy, then drop the toy onto the sidewalk. The striker moves up and sets off the cap.