Before you find you're a dull fellow

``You're making an awful noise,'' our pet rabbit said, in his most scolding of tones.

I stopped swinging the rubber mallet and let go of the putty knife. ``Yes, I know, but it's for a good reason.''

He poked his nose between his cage mesh, almost close enough to nibble at the knife's handle. ``I don't think you understand. It's you and you're doing that thing where you make noise.''

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And please follow the rest of my dialogue with our pet rabbit over on the humor blog. Other items from the past week are:

• The Big Idea, and what to do about having it.
• What To Do With Abandoned Ideas, as everyone has them.
• Forms of New Jersey Local Government (3), further explaining this oft-confusing field.
• Robert Benchley's Are You Between The Ages Of 7 and 94?, something of classic vintage.
• Robert Benchley Society Announces 2013 Writing Contest, a straight bit of signal-boosting about the humor contest.
• Here Are Some Numbers (July 2013), a report on the statistics of how things are going.

Trivia: Zoysia grass, two strains of which were introduced to the United States in 1906 and in 1930, is native to Manchuria and North Korea and Manchuria. Source: The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins.

Currently Reading: Colonies in Space, T A Heppenheimer. I missed the detailed thoughts of how much farming our Space Colonists would be eager to do, but harvesting infant bunnies in space for their meat? I can see why they downplayed that in later O'Neill Colony Agitprop. I didn't need the assurance that the space goats would not be fed space onions lest the space taste get in their space milk; I plan to let all known or suspected space goats be. Also, the assurance that people will be able to go to ``buffet-style'' restaurants seems to be micromanaging.