Tough titty said the kitty
but the milk tastes good

Hla Htay has three hungry infants to feed these days — a seven-month old baby boy and two Bengal tiger cubs.

Three times a day, the Myanmar housewife goes to the Yangon Zoo where she breastfeeds the hungry black-striped, orange-brown cubs rejected by their natural mother.

“The cubs are just like my babies,” Hla Htay told Fuji TV as one of the baby big cats suckled her breast.

Reuters.com

Don’t bogart that message

Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry have found that the constant distractions of email and texting are more harmful to performance than cannabis.

Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking cannabis, according to the researchers.

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NewMexiKen hates to think of the drop in IQ that results from blogging. Or maybe I hate to think because of that drop. Hmmm!?!

But Did He Inhale?

DeLay has long been one of Congress’ most vocal critics of what he calls Castro’s “thugocracy,” which is why some sharp-eyed TIME readers were surprised last week to see a photo of the Majority Leader smoking one of Cuba’s best—a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, which generally costs about $25 when purchased overseas and is not available in this country. The cigar’s label clearly states that it was made in “Habana.” The photo was taken in Jerusalem on July 28, 2003, during a meeting between DeLay and the Republican Jewish Coalition at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

TIME, which has the photo.

U.S. Grant

Leader of the Union forces, eighteenth President of the United States, and memoir writer par excellence, Ulysses S. Grant was born on this date in 1822.

The Library of Congress has a worthwhile profile of the person they call a “quiet, unassuming, and keenly intelligent man.”

The White House biography is here.

The other animator named Walter

Walter Lantz was born on this date in 1899. Lantz was the creator of such animated characters as Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Wally Walrus and the greatest cartoon character of them all, Woody Woodpecker.

Walter Lantz was nominated for the Academy Award 10 times. He received the Academy’s Life-Time Achievement Award in 1979.

Click on the image above to visit lantz.toonzone.net for audio and video clips and lots of other goodies.

Chuckle

“Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday that he had prayed to God that he would not be elected. The new pope then went on to emphasize the power of prayer.”

Dennis Miller

“How disgusting is this? Here it is folks, this is the end of the world…. A restaurant in Decatur, Georgia, is now serving a double bacon cheeseburger that is served between two Krispy Kreme doughnuts. We are now officially ancient Rome.”

Jay Leno

Oops!

Justice can be swift, and very funny: Hacker deletes own hard drive:

A CHAT CHANNEL spat ended when a wannabe hacker was duped into deleting his own hard drive.

The 26 year-old German claimed he was the baddest hacker in town and threatened to attack a moderator on #stopHipHop’s RC Channel because he thought he’d been thrown out.

He demanded the moderator cough up his IP address and prepare to be hacked.

So the moderator said that his IP number was 127.0.0.1 (which is IP for “self”). Then he leaned back and waited.

Finally the hacker declared success. “I can see your E: drive disappearing, he gloated. “D: is down 45 percent!” he cried, before disappearing into the ether.

But he hasn’t been heard from since.

Translated transcript of the IRC session

Discourse.net

What I’m doing on my spring vacation

Not blogging much.