Free-spending monkeys

There's an interesting article in the Times magazine this weekend about biologists and economists teaching Capuchin monkeys to spend money. (This, of course, will be the first step in their fiendishly clever plot to take over the world.)

If you go to the Freakonomics site, you can watch movies of monkey free-trade in action.

Speaking of monkeys trapped in cages, today I'm having my annual performance review. [Gah! Postponed until tomorrow. Shite and onions.] I've already assembled some bank boxes in the advent that I get shitcanned. I know I joke about this every year, but I'm confident that this is the year. Light your candles, say your novenas.