Lots of you have posted comments about WashU's bionic squirrels on your own weblogs. They startle you with their trash-diving, run up to you unafraid, and have sex on your windowsills (or maybe that was just on mine sophomore year), and you've all just about it had it with them.

Earlier this evening I embarked upon a journey to TA hours for Not Machine Learning, and upon trying to open the back gate to our apartment I found that it wouldn't budge. I examined it more closely and discovered that the reason the gate couldn't open was that the track that it runs on was blocked by a squirrel, which had apparently wandered too close while the gate was closing and gotten caught in the track (and obviously was killed). If you're curious to see this gruesome sight, David and michael took pictures later in the evening and will probably post them at some point.

So we humans have finally gotten our revenge on the squirrel, right? Maybe so, but in death this particular squirrel prevented everyone in our building and the neighboring building from using their vehicles, which for me was an inconvenience but for others may have meant missing work or some other important function. It appears that once again the squirrels have won this round.