As I was walking down the street from bus stop to office on my way in to work, this guy drives past in the opposite direction, and calls out the window, “Nice tits.”

Well, okay.

He must have been really looking, since I’m not wearing a particularly flattering shirt as far as enhancing the bustline goes.

But I’ll take it as a compliment. Thanks, anonymous gawker.

I was telling Rose, my oldest daughter, about the Toba Event

. I told her about the cycles of warming and cooling the planet has seen just in the last 75,000 years (a blink of global history). Then I concluded that this cycle will continue, and that sooner or later, another volcano, comet, or other dramatic event will once again alter the planet’s climatic cycles.

“But life will continue,” I reassured her. “Life will once again crawl out of the sludge, blink in the weak sunlight, straighten its spine, find its thumbs, and proclaim to the universe: