I have just purchased two tickets to the Gang of Four show in San Francisco on May 2.

So no matter what else, I’ll be in SF that weekend. This gets me out of town. WOOT.

The emu will peck, as springheel_jack can verify.

Tonight I saw someone that I sort of know, but she doesn’t know me at all.

This is because she is a friend-of-a-friend of mine, so I know a few things about her and I’ve met her very briefly once. But more importantly, it’s because she’s in my “Myspace” network, so the other day about ten mouse clicks into bored myspacery I ran across her page there, including her photos.

And this is why I was standing in line behind someone tonight thinking “I know just how good she looks in her underwear, but she doesn’t know that I know that”.

It must be really neat being a stalker nowadays.

NO.

Worst dating service. Ever.

I just celebrated Crapmas a day light by opening up a package with scissors and neatly cutting into the shoulder of a t-shirt so that the left shoulder on top has a nice long slit in it. I don’t want to do the Flashdance thing, and the shirt is not replaceable (end of a limited run). Anyone locally here good enough at sewing to repair this for me?

If not I’ll just take it to the dry cleaners and get them to do it.

Bat at Home Depot Found to Have Rabies

From the Los Angeles Times:

A bat has tested positive for rabies and health officials are asking anyone who came in contact with it at a Home Depot to call the county’s Animal Care Services.

The bat was found Tuesday evening in the outdoor garden area of the home improvement store on Warner Avenue, authorities said. Tests confirmed Friday that it was rabid.

Authorities requested that anyone who came in contact with the bat call (714) 935-6106. They also urged customers who took children to the store Tuesday to ask them if they saw or touched the bat. Rabies can be transmitted by a bite.

Is there any evidence that this frienditto thing steals auth info? I mean evidence rather than shrieking. I can’t find any.

U.S. Marshals seized available supplies of Paxil and Avandamet (a diabetes drug) today because of repeated and continued violations of FDA regulations for quality and purity of the drugs. Hey, great going.

Quotes from the WSJ article:

Among the violations found in the FDA’s latest inspection, the statement said, were that Paxil CR tablets could split apart, which would mean that patients “could receive a portion of the tablets that lacks any active ingredient, or alternatively a portion that contains active ingredient and does not have the intended controlled-release effect.”

The FDA also found that Avandamet tablets didn’t have an “accurate dose” of rosiglitazone, which is one of the drug’s active ingredients.

Apparently Glaxo had agreed to recall affected pills and then hadn’t recalled them all.
You know you’re not doing well when the FDA goes after you during a laissez-faire right-wing government that’s anti-regulation. You know you’re REALLY not doing well when they stop just sending stiff notes and instead they send the humorless flatfoots with the bad haircuts and the guns to shut you down.