Her right arm was severed near the elbow.
The attack occurred outside the view of tourists as Bourassa was giving a private tour available only to zookeepers’ family members. The theme park suspended such tours Monday, said Glenn Young, the park’s vice president of zoological operations.
Busch Gardens officials said the 12-year-old lion named Max would not be destroyed, but said the amusement park’s safety policies would be reviewed.
The Woman Web
Is it true that most women exist within a subtle and unrelenting web of conflicts, alliances, intrigue, and competition; and that this political web defines many of their interactions and relationships between each other?
Is it also true that men share a similar web of petty intrigue and competition, but dispel its tension by talking about cars, sports, beer, computers, current events, and other women?
Green Khaki Black Brown
Last Thursday, I wore a green polo shirt, khaki slacks, black socks, and brown shoes. To anyone who saw me in that combination, I apologize for my unsightly fashion decisions that day.
New EU Bar-Code Flag
The so-called bar-code colored flag, which rumors say the EU was going to adopt for itself, was just a hoax. Or rather, it was a real designer’s work, but the EU was never really going to change its flag anyway.
Otherwise, Left Behind rapture pretribs would have gone wild drawing parallels between the “Sign of the Beast” tattoo bar code and the bar-code flag.
The Nadine Spam Story
The Story of Nadine, a sinister tale of spam. Lesson learned: be careful with your email addresses! Always try to use a “spare” address for your web subscriptions.
New Skates!
One of the downsides to living in downtown Washington is that I must travel a great distance just to get a new pair of in-line skates. After getting a haircut at the barber on Florida Ave., I walked down to the U Street Metro and rode the Yellow Line to the Pentagon. (The Pentagon Metro station and bus terminal is right outside the building itself, on the opposite end from where the plane crashed. That’s the closest I’ve been to it. Coolness.) From there, it was a medium-short bus ride to Ski Chalet, where they had some pretty good recreational Rollerblades on sale.
Along the way, I had merienda at McDonald’s, which, pleasantly enough, was playing classical music. Nothing goes better with a double cheeseburger and fries than a Vivaldi concerto grosso.
Bovine Invasion
28 indexes done. More than halfway!
Given the name of my weblog, I think I need to post cow-related links more often. With that, I present to you xtcian’s wedding proposal, fraught with a perilous bovine invasion — and more! (via Evhead)
Virtupets Space Station
“Evil Dr. Sloth has plans to turn all the NeoPets in Neopia into his mutant slaves! Go to the Space Station and help thwart his evil plans! There are also games to play, things to buy, and much much more… “
Gosh, the evil arch-villain runs a command base where those who would thwart his dastardly plans can also play games and go shopping? Suddenly I’m reminded of Dr. Evil’s base in Austin Powers II, where every morning the staff could enjoy an all-you-can eat breakfast buffet. You know the scene… “It got weird.”
RandyFro Spam
I woke up at almost 10am this morning. Nasty habit; I really need to get my waking time back up to 6am.
Randyfro: spammer.. I didn’t take much notice of it when I received his email last week, because quite frankly, I thought it was either: (1) plain and simple mass Unsolicited Bulk Mail (U.B.E., aka SPAM), or (2) some wide-eyed blog newbie who was actually kapal-muks enough to send his U.B.E. out to over a hundred sites. His victims’ standard response would most likely be annoyance and repulsion; I wonder how much hate mail this guy must be getting now. And why does he go spamming for links when his name seems to get around pretty well anyway?
Boba Fett
There’s a Boba Fett Fan Club? How could there be so much infatuation over a character who has barely any exposure across two Star Wars movies? Hired by Darth Vader, tracks down and captures Han Solo, dies in the Sarlacc pit. That’s it! So where does the rest of this romanticization come from? What is it that causes fans to think Boba Fett is cool?