It’s official – Otka has molted! I checked in on Otka this morning, and found him bigger, browner, and hunkered down beside his old exoskeleton. I don’t have any pics yet, and probably won’t get around to taking any for a while, but trust me that it’s WAY cool. I’m planning on saving his old [...]

This has got to be one of my favorite news stories of all time. It’s so fantastic, it just HAS to be a fake story. But it ran in the New York Times, so I’m going to believe it. Plus, I *want* so badly to believe it. Can you believe it? Can you believe that [...]

I’ve always wanted to use that as a title – and now I have a good excuse. See, my good friend Sebastian scored a couple of free tickets to Hawaii by being an über-employee, and by working for a company that annually rewards about 1,000 of its über-employees with a free trip to a shindig [...]