Tim's Bits and Pieces

This is interesting (Yes, it is Safe For Work, it's a news article) I do agree that it is not really appropriate for a male doctor to be "rubbing" his female patient's breasts, but why would the 31 year old women in the article keep going back if she felt it was such a problem? It is implied in the article that she was more than a little uncomfortable with it, but she continued going to the same dentist fully expecting that sort of thing to happen (by the sound of it).

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These two news articles show why I support the death penalty:

• Man leaves girl to be eaten by alligators
• Sentence almost doubled for stepdaughter rape

I was watching Planet of the Apes last night (OK, it was actually already morning, but I hadn't been to sleep yet :-) ), and I noticed that the main ape hero made comments on human (i.e. real humans on Earth) great and harsh mistreatment of apes. Leo, our (human) hero, made no attempt to counter these claims, but instead seemed to agree that humans putting non-sapient [un-intelligent] animals in zoos*, was worse, not just as bad, but worse, than intelligent apes enslaving and murdering (sapient) humans.

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Reading this news article I'm reminded of a quote from "The Man with Two Brains".

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This is an interesting site I came across Today.

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I've added some links to web comics on the links page.

I found this entertaining short story by Ellis Butler a few weeks back and thought I'd share it. It's a great classic piece of satire against bureaucracy, and is available from Project Gutenberg

I received an amusing letter from my Uni today, apparently I have achieved a GPA of "5.5499999999999998". I mean come on, no one needs, or wants, to know their GPA to that level of precision, why not just round it off to 5.55 or something?