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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39210-2002Nov25.html

The latest findings about dogs are really the latest findings about people. Those East Asians of yore shared what little meat they had with dogs because they valued what dogs brought them -- not something eminently practical, but unconditional love. For that reason, they took the pooches wherever they went, eventually crossing the land bridge to the Western Hemisphere. They wanted what we do.

Not everything we do serves a pragmatic, evolutionary purpose. We seek comfort, love -- something a dog provides for which there is no one word. [...]

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Today is Setting Orange, day 38 in the season of The Aftermath, 3268.

Just this morning, I was thinking on my way to work about the fact that I hadn't gotten a response from someone yet to an email I sent a couple of weeks ago, and wondering if I should just take that to be some sort of sign. Late this afternoon, I got an email from that person in response.

Tomorrow morning on my way to work, I'm going to think about winning the lottery and being able to retire to my own island with my loved ones. ;)