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Oh noes! Someone broke into our house this afternoon, and stole my shiny new laptop, Dad's mouse, and about $600 in cash. Yeah... There were like a string of breakins all around West Van today, and one of them was us. So I'm going to start a Paypal donation box to replace my laptop. Plz give me a thousand dollars. I won't be able to post to Livejournal until you do! Come on.

UPDATE!

Later that night someone left it just outside, together with the Macintosh mouse. We didn't get the $600 back, but yays laptop.

I'm still taking donations.

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Rebecca Borgstrom

Countdown to Annihilation

"What's it do?" Iphigenia asks.

"It's a way to prove Creationism right for once and for all," says Mr. Lancaster. "When I push this button---"

Here he indicates a large red button labeled "Emergency Proof of Creationism."

"---everything in the universe that is older than ten thousand years old, and every human who evolved from lower life forms, blows up!"

Iphigenia frowns. "But that's nobody. You said that people were made by God."

Mr. Lancaster's eyes dance.

Iphigenia will always remember this moment. When Mr. Lancaster is very happy his eyes get a marvelous crinkle at the edges. It makes Iphigenia want to laugh and hug him. And sometimes he will sweep her up and spin her around, or tell her a wonderful secret, like where the Apostle Paul is really buried, or race her through the house around and around and around.

His eyes are crinkly like that now.

"That's the marvel of it," he says, "The absolute marvel of it! It's the world's deadliest bomb---and it won't hurt hardly anything!"

"Hitherby Dragons" original

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