"Bob the Starfish masqueraded as a human for months, but ...."

... to share my yard, at night, with fireflies -- dozens and dozens and dozens of them.

I remember when I read that people used to make money by catching lots of them and keeping them in a lantern, to be used as ... a lantern. I thought once that might be a fun sideline, but I was concerned about what the fireflies would think of it. That's their way of attracting mates, like the flower a Hawaiian woman might put in her hair. Would Hawaiian women like to be tied together to form a bouquet?

Fireflies are like watching stars on one's lawn. The ones here in the Carolinas will let me walk up to them as they fly, and as I put my hand out, they can be coaxed to land on me and light me up.

Fireflies. I am as happy as I was as a boy.

With Spring less than a month away now, it is probably a good idea to forbid this kind of cruelty to springs.

http://robsheridan.tumblr.com/post/18059143034/slinkies-on-a-treadmill-because-why-not

(I like the one furthest from the camera, it looks like it got in a few extra somersaults.)

BAD SF NOVEL: 5am: US Pres gets Nobel Peace Prize. 730am: US bombs Moon. 9am: Moon declares war on US...