We're getting close!

San Francisco Giants: 4
Arizona Diamondbacks: 2

Chicago Cubs: 5
San Diego Padres: 2

Giants' magic number to win the National League West is down to 4, with five games to play.

LET'S GO GIANTS!!

Must share.

I love creative people, and people who perform flash art.

Things like this make me feel better about humans in general. Even if this was a planned event as part of a promotion. it still rocked.

Sodden thought.

Decades ago, when typewriters still roamed the Earth, isomeme wrote a really good story about a space flight to Wolf 359 and a brief conversation between two passengers. Once at the spaceport, the passenger that the POV character had been speaking with looks up and wails in anguish "The Moons!" The planet had several moons, some of which were full that night. The story ends with "Then the howling began."

He really should have sent that into Analog. It was a good story.

But anyway, I was reading about Gilese 581g, and thought "this would be a great place to exile Earth's vampires! They could live over the edge of the twilight zone in the dark area. Humans would live on the edge of the sunward side, where vampires dare not go. Vampires get paid in whole blood. And obviously, death penalty offenses are handled by given to offender to the vampires.

I continued thinking, and realized that any Earth-like planet lacking a moon would be the perfect "leper colony" for weres of all shapes and sizes. Obviously they would be free to travel, but not any world with a moon that goes through phases! Based on an extensive viewing of Universal horror films on Saturdays when I was kid, the transformation is linked to an actual line of sight to the full moon, so weres could also safely work in any space that is completely sealed with no view ports.