Archive for August, 2007
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Last Night At The Frogtown Artwalk
Susan and I made good on plans to partake in the festivities infusing the second-annual Frogtown Artwalk, and as a bonus Susan and I biked all the way over there and back where we took a river tour led by Joe Linton and then met up with friends Stephen and Alice to explore the various [...]
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Those Were The Days
Look what I found on an old buried computer disk (click to quadruplify):
It’s not just every day or just anyone who gets to sit in the Dodgers dugout with Congressman Xavier Becerra and his three wonderful daughters. But before you go thinking I was some political insider or something even more dubious, rest assured my [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Transition Time
It came early this year, the signal. Just now. I went outside and saw it and smelled it and felt it, and I said “Yep, there it is.”
Scientifically I know of nothing to back it up. I’ve never really heard anyone else talk about it. Maybe it’s all in my head or there’s some physiological [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Avocado Avocation
It was Jo Gillis and the miracle of her “Charlie Brown” peach tree that got things started. Shortly after reading that post near the end of July I plopped into pots the pits of a pair of peaches (say that three-times fast) to see if they might grow, but so far nothing yet.
Jo later asked [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in food, nature, tinkering by Will
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Safe & Sound
Today was a big day for Ranger. I took her in to the vet’s to be spayed and to get her annual shots, and while she was under the anesthetic we threw in a nail trim and a teeth cleaning. But it’s all done and she’s home safe (if a little grumpy… but can one [...]
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Black Rhino In The Ngorongoro
Apologies. As this and my last post indicate, mentally I’m back in Africa. This time in the Ngorongoro Crater with a female black rhino who had moments previously been lying down almost completely hidden by the grasses but just before this shot had jumped up on full alert for reasons known only to her.
No, I [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in animals, travel by Will
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
The Knuckles Of God
I need to go back to Africa someday. Not just for all the right reasons, but also — and mainly — because I took this crappy picture (click to quadruplify):
If you looked at it and thought “What? It’s really not sooooo bad,” I appreciate that, but make no mistake: it is. It’s crappy because the [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Hide & Go Seek
As a layperson I’d just call it camouflage, but from my years as both an employee and docent at the Los Angeles Zoo I had the more scientific term drummed into my head — cryptic coloration — which is just a fancy bio way of saying a creature’s colors and/or patterns allow it to blend [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in animals, nature by Will
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Not Quite That Just-Brushed Feeling
It’s time again for another installment of “What Lies Beneath” and today what we’ve found out in the backyard is this crumpled up tube of toothpaste (quick to quadruplify):
This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill container of Crest, folks. Nay. This is glorious Ipana from Bristol Myers, a brand that dates back to 1915. But [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Perusing The Paper
In the front section of today’s L.A. Times there were three items that caught my eye. One was how not to report about tarantulas, another was how to report about ground squirrls and the last sparked a bit of a personal outrage:
Let’s take the first one last…
In a page-one story about how Sudan is just [...]
