Coffee and Provocation

Sarcasm is where all the black goes.

Pet Armor is Frontline at Half the Price:
Started by former Merial executives, Pet Armor is available over the counter and at half the price as Frontline.  Yes, this is what happens when medicines (or insecticides) go off-patent. 

Caffeinated Jerky:
Awesome idea, and our military is banking on it.

Hunting Season Is Over?
Hunting season is over for the Higgs boson.  I had no idea there was a season.  And what the hell is a Higgs boson?

Carrying the Weight:
It turn out that e-knowledge has a weight. Filling a 4GB Kindle to its storage limit increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram, or 0.000000000000000001g, which is approximately the weight of a small virus. The equivalent number of books – about 3,500 – would weigh approximately two tons. I am going to get a Kindle Fire when they come out. I really am.

A New Unit of Time:
A new unit of time has been created.  A “Kardashian” is a unit of measure representing 72 days of marriage.  If you want to know how many Kardashians you have been married for, check out the calculator here.  I have been married for 141.68 Kardashians!

The Top Ten Largemouth Bass Spots in the Country:
Here's the list and at #10 is the Potomac River below my house.  Nice!

There's Old Growth Forest In New York City?
Apparently there's a little of it left at the New York Botanical Garden.
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