The Pentagon Wants to Make an Army of Virus-Spreading Insects. Scientists Are Concerned.

.livescience.com ^ | October 5, 2018 12:57pm ET | Brandon Specktor

[Tax-chick]

We went to church. Next, after Pat gets home from school and eats lunch, we’ll go to the park for the non-optional family exertion expedition.

[Monkey Face]

It’s a sunny day but it’s a cold one. Some days, I feel like I need a non-optional single exertion expedition.

Perhaps I should concentrate on something I don’t have to go outside to do, just yet. Looking at the Not-Always-Accurate-Weather beeber on my Not-So-Smart phone, I see where Henderson is quite a bit warmer than it is here, and has been for quite some time. I’m homesick for the heat!

[Darksheare]

One possibility, the phone is a gateway to The Other Place.
It sometimes wanders in order to find people to send there.
The more unsuspecting, the better.
Those who currently wield it are unaware of the true nature of the thing, it acts benignly in their presence.
Will have to ponder this to some extent to flesh it out.

[Tax-chick]

to flesh it out

Not loving that possibility ...

[Darksheare]

Flesh phone, gives off a slight cooing sound when held, warm and somewhat soft to the touch, everyone wanted one.
But they come with a price.

[Covenantor]

saw a news item about a spy bot company looking to switch from snails to something else as the snails were too slow and left evidence they were around.

Mk-II Spybot Snails downloading collected data to Comms-CPO masquerading as Princess Laia.

[Darksheare]

Brain eating snails, or Beats Lab headphones

[NoCmpromiz]

You posted that because there are snails outside my door, right?

Well..

Maybe.. ;-)

[Monkey Face]

Something tells me the snails in my yard will live longer than I will, at this rate.... ;o]

[ArGee]

One possibility, the phone is a gateway to The Other Place.

I think that's a given, actually. And the roadway is the Internet.

[ArGee]

Poifect!!!

[Monkey Face]

I have a collection of frogs, some actually looking like real frogs, complete with warts. But I have no interest in collecting snails and this photo is kinda creepy.

[NoCmpromiz]

Well.. do you have any French neighbors? You could always gift them with some butter and garlic and then point to the snails..

Haven’t seen any snails here, all we have are the divorced ones with no house.

[Tax-chick]

Crickets sit on the dragons’ heads sometimes.

[Tax-chick]

Tom the Son got me an e-book program for Mecklenburg County libraries. He couldn’t figure out how to get the AccuWeather app to stop sending me notes about the weather, though.

[Monkey Face]

Delete the AccuWeather app. Simple. ;o])

I got an email from the library, saying that “Grantchester” is in, so Wednesday, I’ll stop and pick it up on my way home from getting x-rayed.

Now, I’m off to bed. Ta!

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you for beautiful kitteh!

[Silentgypsy]

G’night and sweet dreams, y’all!

[Darksheare]

The green anole I had named Wretched Ratchet was asleep in his marble queen pathos when a cricket plunked itself onto his head and began chirping.
Ratch turned an astonishingly dark color and went on a “kill everything” rampage.
It was a sight to behold.

[Tax-chick]