Savage Duckies Join Falconry Expansion League

Conan the Barbarian learned everything he knew from a rubber ducky.
I'm looking at the preceding sentence and wondering if that's all I have to say. This is what I get for upgrading computers and software and not thinking about important things, like what do you do if your ducky refuses to come back to the glove after killing a lot of grubs and worms.

I've been trying to get an ancient Canon scanner to work with the latest and greatest software. There's no driver for Mac Snow Leopard, so the scanner just sits there, playing dead. Windows 7 came up with a sort of half-driver that makes the scanner sort of work.
This is beginning to look like more money rushing out the door for a new scanner. In olden times, you could just hire a monk to make mistakes copy everything, and he'd throw in a nice illustration to distract people from the nasty things you were saying in your fancy Latin script.

Here, from eHow, is some advice, along with recipes, on how to lose weight while eating chocolate. I'm not going to comment on this one--wiser heads than mine will pontificate, I am sure, however it does seem to offer a ray of hope in an otherwise melancholy world chock full of 'don't eat this' and 'don't eat that', etc. The writer recommends chocolate waffles, cereals and puddings among other things, which certainly impresses me.
Good on you!

And here, for my benefit, are some pieces of Lindt chocolate, nicely stacked and ready for healthy eating. It's good to be healthy. Remember, go easy on the vegetables, salads, and juices, and make sure you get an adequate supply of nutritious chocolate. If you don't, the bogeymen will come and tear you to pieces and scatter your remains to the four winds and make you really miserable for an entire day. And you'll be forced to read everything Jean-Paul Sartre ever wrote. Twice.
And there'll be a quiz.

And here is a picture of an old stick-in-the-mud.