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 …
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 thanks …
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 …
What a gift! Tonight the San Pedro cactus rewarded us with the launching of one, two, three,four blooms at once. But no, I did not set up the cam and laptop to go timelapse on the quartet, instead just opting for a single shot of the group (click to quadruplify): The blossom I did capture …
I got my latest Ebbets Field Flannels catalog in the mail Wednesday night and yesterday before I got the good news about landing the job I was thumbing through it and I said to myself that if I got the gig I’d reward myself on my first pay day by taking advantage of an available …
So my webhosting provider encountered some serious technical difficulties that pretty much left wildbell.com offline from around midnight to just a short while ago. Longest outage in the six years I’ve been with Dreamhost. Fun stuff, but hopefully we’re back up and running steady — and at least there was one occupant in the house …
You remember that Monster.com commercial from a few years ago, the one where people danced in abject euphoria to ELO’s “Do Ya, Do Ya Want My Love?” when they got new jobs? I always wanted to do that. You know that gig I interviewed for last week, the one I was really hoping to get? …