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In somewhat surprising canine news, it seems that Bacon is afraid of cats and little dogs.

In not-so-surprising canine news, it seems that Bacon doesn't like it when big dogs hump him. Go fig.

A long time back I wrote and entry about googlewhacking. At the time, I was trying to find googlewhacks, and having a darn good time of it too. Well, today I was bored at work (as I often am) and rather than work on my resume (which I should have been doing) I decided to try to find some googlewhacks.

And in doing so, I realized that I could make my blog a source of googlewhack material. All I have to do is create plausible entries for those word combinations I find that current have no google hits.

For example: You wouldn't think it, but amoebae are known for their sassy ribaldries.

If all goes according to plan, amoebae and ribaldries will now create a whack - which is not terribly surprising in that they are not everyday words and don't seem particularly likely to be together.

Amoebae don't have eukaryotes, but if they did you'd have ribaldries on the mitochondrial level too.

Yes, that's right. I'm a big geek. I know it. I embrace it.

Oh, and by the way, hippopotami are well known for their penuriousness.

I think I need professional help.

Okay, spammers, I'm sick and tired of you. I know you're not reading this, that your stupid automated systems are just sending out oodles of crap throughout blogs of the world, but that doesn't mean I can't complain about it. I've had to ban eight IP addresses in the past two weeks and I am sick and bloody tired of taking that time out of my busy day, darn it all. Spammers are poopyheads.

I was on a message board recently where we were all talking about books we were reading. Someone posted that they were envious of the fact that I have so much time to read. I hadn't really thought about that before, but once it was pointed out to me, I realized that for some time now, I've been reading a new book every other day. Upon further examination, it seems completely sensible - I take a bus and a train in the morning and again in the afternoon, plus I read at lunch, plus there is often some downtime between getting off the train in the evening and getting on the bus. So I have at least an hour and usually more like 90 minutes each day to read. And lately, I have been reading a lot of light fluffy fun books, which makes for even quicker reading.

I started to do a book queue like the one Rod has on his site, but it seemed like a lot of work to keep up with if I'm reading four books a week. Then again, maybe that'll make me pay more attention to the blog, who knows.

Obviously, this habit ain't cheap. So I'm doing bookcrossing and book relays - both of which mean that I can pass along books and get books passed on to me. It's great! Also, I have been buying book lots on eBay, which let me get loads o'books for cheap prices, and then trade the ones I might get doubles of! Again, super!!

So, if you have any books you want to recommend - or lend - lemme know. I've got oodles of reading time.