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I finally got the pictures of the Rotavapor online. The rotavapor was the Ultimate Shiny Lab Equipment that I talked about a while ago. You can see why it is ultimately shiny.

I am very sad. I happened to notice the other day that there is a hole in the bottom of my shoe. I have worn clear through the rubber, and thin flaps of it hang off. I really do like these shoes, and they are otherwise in great shape. I'll have to go shoe shopping before too long. I'm so broke though!

I am also sad because I took a picture of my shoe-holes, and now I can't find my card reader for my camera. Pictures will have to wait.

UPDATE: I found my camera cable, so here is a picture of the offending hole.

Apparently George W. Bush rocks out.

I found this image on Wikipedia. Yes I'm addicted to Wikipedia.

I find it interesting that in New York City, people have a tendancy of calling things the "New York --" with total disregard for the rest of the state. Granted, nearly half the state's population does live there, but they do seem blissfully unaware of the other 60% of us up here. That's not what I came to talk about today. I came to talk about sea animals.

Steve had a floor program on April Fools' Day to the New York Aquarium. As usual, he had extra spots and I tagged along. We walked around and looked at all the cool fishes (yes, that is the correct word) and sea mammals. The curved tank walls made me dizzy when I looked through. Makes me wonder how the fish feel about the situation.

I took a few pictures, mostly of an otter bathing itself. There was also Oopa, the fat slut walrus. She laid on a rock for the entire time we were there, flashing her cooter at us. A mere adolescent, she weighs in at over 1300 lbs. The only thing that motivated her to get off her rock was food. I don't mind that she's fat, that's what walruses do. The least she could do is close her legs or something.

As a challenge to web-geek types, Dustin Diaz has proposed the challenge to turn off CSS for a day. CSS is what gives many websites their colors and layouts. Once that is gone users can see the page the same way a blind person's screen reader software does, which is incidentally the same way Google, Yahoo!, MSN (and many other services) see it. The theory is that you should be able to use a site just as well whether it's visually styled or not.