A cartoon for engineers and their spouses

Gregor Samsa consults a famous doctor

The relevant part of the program begins at the 41:00 mark.

 Background for the befuddled. And here, for those not familiar with the doctor.

Memento mori

Image cropped and lightened from the original, via Bad Newspaper.

"Clap your hands to save Tinkerbell !"

Found at imgur, via Reddit.

This is true at our house

Real Life Adventures is available online.  Here are two more samples:

Enjoy.

Take your human for "walkies"

Via Nothing to do with Arbroath.

"So long."

I’m not the easiest guy in the world to get along with. So when our anniversary rolled around, I wanted my wife to know how much I appreciated her tolerating me for the past 20 years. I ordered flowers and told the florist to enclose a card that read, “Thanks for putting up with me so long.”

When my wife got the delivery, she called me at work.

“Where are you going?” she asked.

“What do you mean?” I said.

She read the card aloud as the florist had written it: “Thanks for putting up with me. So long.”

—George Arnold, Melbourne, Florida

Found in Reader's Digest.

"CDO"

Found this comment on a GardenWeb thread yesterday:

That's OK...
I have CDO
That's OCD in alphabetical order, like it SHOULD be hahaha

It's probably an old joke, but it was new to me.

Sling bullet from the 4th century BC

From the collections of the incomparable British Museum:

Lead sling bullet; almond shape; a winged thunderbolt on one side and on the other, in high relief, the inscription DEXAI "Catch!"

Shot of this type have been excavated from the Pnyx at Athens, associated with the Sullan siege of the city (TER).

Availability of marijuana in the United States

Found at imgur.

Picnic

From The New Yorker.

Skip the résumé...

A response to the crisis in Syria

Source.

Addendum:  In response to a comment that was written and later deleted, I should clarify that I posted this item not to minimize or make fun of the suffering of the people of Syria, but as a reflection of a prevailing (and increasing) attitude of Americans toward their elected "leadership."  The people of the country have been lied to - repeatedly and almost systematically - by a long series of Presidents and Congresses on countless matters relating to foreign policy.  Invariably the lies and deceptions have led to increased military aggressiveness abroad and an insane funding of the military-industrial complex to a degree that has depleted the resources of this country for domestic purposes and resulted in a deterioration of our infrastructure and degradation of our environment.  This has to stop.  I hope a similar sentiment is what motivated the staff at The Onion.

Three images of "Up North"

I presume the backyard rink must be intended only for peewee hockey, because I wouldn't want to be checked against those low sideboards.

Found at Izismile - unfortunately without credits re sources.

Uneasy rider

From The New Yorker.

"The only part of government that actually listens"

The story of these t-shirts and why they were banned is at Salon.

A request for humor links

There are mornings when you surf the 'net for material and what you encounter generates a lot of gloom and doom.  On days like that I like to visit cheerful or humor sites for a mental health break.  I have these bookmarked in various folders:

Miss Cellania
Bad Newspaper [the old "Criggo"]
The Onion
Dilbert
Nonsequitur
New Yorker weekly cartoons
Lowering the Bar
Izismile

I'd appreciate additional suggestions.

Identifying employees with management skills

All the Dilberts are here.

Do what the government tells you to do

More Dilbert

Subtypes of geochemists

I don’t know who came up with this — it’s been bouncing around science journals for 50 years:

Hydromicrobiogeochemist: one who studies small underwater flora and their relationship to underlying rock strata by using chemical methods.

Microhydrobiogeochemist: one who studies flora in very small bodies of water and their relationship to underlying rock strata by using chemical methods.

Microbiohydrogeochemist: one who studies small flora and their relationship to underlying rock strata by using chemical methods and SCUBA equipment.

Biohydromicrogeochemist: a very small geochemist who studies the effect of plant life in hydrology.

Hydrobiomicrogeochemist: a very small geochemist who studies wet plants.

Biomicrohydrogeochemist: a very small, wet geochemist who likes lettuce.

Found in the Futility Closet.