You know, guys, it's at times like these, when I'm cleaning up after you crazy people have all been at my house, that I think to myself, who are these people, and why do I let them into my home? They come here. They all come here. How do they find me?

Body Count for Last Night

Max's new shirt. (Sorry.)

Mickey's dignity and childhood innocence. (Ahem.)

Everyone's ignorance of certain male. . .er. . .recreational occupations. (Ahem.)

Ben's voice. (You were yelling a bit.)

La Vie Boheme. (Sigh.)

Kat's ignorance of the movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Marvin! Squee! Just so you all know that was not a "sexually attracted" squee.)

Max's status as single. (Was it just me, or does Yass seem sort of into him?)

Our belief in Julian's girlfriend. (Or at least Julian's faithfulness to said girlfriend.)

Kat's lack of a watch. (I just hope it doesn't have a time bomb in it. Hey, knowing David. . .)

Kat's frustration at never being able to keep her place in various books. (Thank you. Here's to cherryade.)

All of Kat's muffin debts. (GO ME!)

Kat's patience with Mac. (GAH! He needs to understand he doesn't own me, comprende?)

The virginity of my younger sister's life size Sugar Plum fairy Barbie doll. (Um. . .)

Kat's having not punched anyone for five odd years. (That was interesting, wasn't it, Max?)

In fact, Kat's patience with everybody.

Kat's nice white T-Shirt. (David, was that really necessary?)

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In other news. . .

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan, home to the world's first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island's stem cell research, a professor said Thursday.

By injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, a research team at the island's leading National Taiwan University managed to breed three male transgenic pigs, said professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university's Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.

"There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green," Wu said on Thursday.

The transgenic pigs, commonly used to study human diseases, would help researchers monitor and trace changes of the tissues during the physical development, Wu said.

In 2003, a Taiwan company began selling the world's first genetically engineered fish, sparking protests by environmentalists who said the fluorescent green fish posed a threat to the earth's ecosystem.

In neighboring South Korea, disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk apologized Thursday for wrongdoing at his laboratory, but hinted at a conspiracy to discredit him and said he was blinded by the zeal of advancing stem cell studies.

An investigation panel at Seoul National University said on Tuesday that a team led by Hwang faked two landmark papers on embryonic stem cells, but did produce the world's first cloned dog.

Quote of the Day

"It's at times like these that I ponner. . .ponter. . .poonder. . ."

"Ponder?"

- Kat and Mickey

I remain, gentlemen, your faithful and obedient servant,

J.G.