What was your sign?

I inscribed K in the kindergarten of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Meeting the ladies there was itself an adventure for me, I immediately had a similar feeling what Hungarians have when seeing a policeman. I don't have to say: without any reason, he will be in very good hands from September.
He is big, I have to let him go and I already feel lonely. And I'm very old, having such a big child.
I had to choose a sign for him. I always thought that he would do it on the first day. So, since the ball and the car was taken, and the rest was butterfly and a very ugly flower, and the snail had eyes on the feet, I took the balloon. Which was his first nickname, Lufi.
Mine was - even though I didn't know the A.E. Bizottsag - the umbrella. I knew somebody who's was the knife.
What was yours?

phd comics

Here is a link for Lynx's post:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=125

Motto (could be): If you can't change it, make fun of it.

Check out the rest too! I am subscribed now. Lifesaver.

Catsup

Here is an important piece of information I got to know only a day ago:

If you cat gets sprayed by a skunk

(depicted above), which is a truly nasty thing, the only way you can get rid of the penetrant reek is to give the animal a bath in tomato juice!

Now I wonder how you do that? All common cats hate bath and also hate tomato smell. Combine the two and you are sure to end up in the emergency room stiched up like a soccerball. What a disgrace.

On the other hand, I really would like to talk to the person who came up with the idea: how on Earth do you decide to pour V8 onto your smelly cat? Did s/he try other stuff before, like gasoline, vinegar or bleach? I wonder.

Anyhow, if you ever decide to move to my half of this interesting planet, you might need the info.

Genderanalyzer

I have been in a real hard-core feminist mode recently (thanks to my machoist-schoivinist colleagues) so here's some links that go well with this mood:

The first is a blog, I have stumbled upon it completely by chance. She writes about her life as an American thirty-something grad student in biology (she is about to finish) and some of the thoughts/situations coincide with mines a lot. For example that one about the behavior of women (and their male bosses) in science. It worth a look.

The second one is just a "fun-game" which situates our blog giving it a "71% chance that it is written by a woman". Ha! See tarelle? You should really get back on track! :)