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Critters

The three boys

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have a cat story to tell you if you’re of a mind to listen. It’s a simple story because cats are, at heart, simple creatures. We exist to serve them, which pretty much puts an end to any issue of complexity. Many, many years ago, I was living in […]

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Insects Political Weblogging

Golden Arches

Loren from In a Dark Time is off to my favorite place in the entire world, Cannon Beach:   There is something both inspirational and moving about the ocean. As it turns out, I spent my first honeymoon at the beach, but I also drove down to the beach to clear my mind the night I decided to […]

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Insects

Revenge against the Bird

To all whom I’ve managed to offend, piss off, antagonize, and otherwise singe fully with my firey feathery wings in this last year (‘ware the embrace of the Bird–she’ll fry you), you can rest assured that tonight the fates are avenging you. Can’t sleep and am in a world of misery with marks of Missouris […]

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Critters

Always time for the important things in life

I was hard at work on my newly upgraded server earlier today, installing libraries, creating databases, moving code. It was so nice to have all that room and I wasn’t paying too much attention to my surroundings. Well, my little girl, Zoe, was having none of this. First she dragged her feather in, plopping it down on […]

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Environment

Will the last person leaving the Earth, please turn off the Sun

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s difficult to shrug off stories that have the eye-catching title of Earth ‘will expire by 2050’. It’s also difficult to ignore statements such as the following: The report, based on scientific data from across the world, reveals that more than a third of the natural world has been destroyed by […]