Today’s Asian small-clawed otters are jumping for joy in anticipation of a meal. Via the L.A. Times.

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Anyone want to caption this little otter?

[via The Daily Otter.]

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires, except anything to do with the election – poll chat should go to the other open thread.

Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations? Wanna caption this otter?

Now that our Federal election day so closely approaches, a few of us are starting to remember that the ROTW (Rest of the World) is out there, and that tonight’s town hall gabfest might not amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, and in any case sometime early next week the wall-to-wall election coverage will need to end.

Perhaps those who have been paying attention to things happening outside Australia over the last month or so could use this thread to get the rest of us up to speed on recent events.

Just been listening to some horror stories on ABC 702 (related SMH story), and am about to google my arse off to find out how I should configure my iPhone before heading overseas later this year to avoid huge bills. Obviously turn off push notifications (which I have off anyway because I hatesssss the intrusion) and turn off roaming* and use local wireless wherever possible: but the problem here is that essentially that’s turning off huge swathes of the iPhone’s functionality. Are there better options? Read more »

Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!