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Your difference in age is divisible by a unit of decades, but I won't say which.

Instead of cake, and with appropriate timing (i.e., I just found out about it), I give you an Act of Progress (partial quote):

( After two centuries, Nepal women train for Gurkhas  )

And bits from the Guardian:

( Women set to join the Gurkhas )

But where has the bandwidth gone? [/JackSparrow]

I like the way annechen67 said it:

It seems Girl Genius has gone meta. studiofoglio has broken their server. If you aren't reading Girl Genius yet, why not? If you are, you may want to friend girlgeniuscomic before you miss Friday.

I was hoping the annotation site, onComics, might have had separately-hosted images for anybody wanting to catch up, but it was drawing directly from girlgeniusonline.com. Not even the Wayback Machine has the pages. *sigh*

...annnnd:

Study: House cat descendant of Middle Eastern wildcat

• Here's Felis silvestris lybica
• Another Felis silvestris lybica

Does your dog swim in fresh water?

From sff.discuss.dogs, crossposted with permission but poster's contact info redacted:

> PLEASE PASS ON TO ALL DOG OWNERS~!!!!!
>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:55:03 -0400
> Subject: Blue Green Algae Toxicity (cross post)
>
> ( click for details (warning: unhappy) )

[heavy irony] At least down here, we avoid fresh water due to the 'gators; instead, off Rickenbacker Causeway, I'd only have to worry about red tide, jellyfish and/or sharks. [/irony]