I’m going to go back to talking about my squid. Or reading about my squid. My squid was fun and exciting and provided adventure and mystery. Think of it, we talk about voyaging into space but there are creatures in the deep of this world we know nothing about. We just found a member of a species […]
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A bit of excitement today
I was working at my computer when I noticed a black cloud in the direction of the apartment complex office. I could hear the sirens of a lot of fire vehicles. So I grabbed my camera and headed in the direction of the smoke. The fire was not in the office but the Dobb’s auto […]
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Quiet day in the neighborhood
Just a quiet day in the neighborhood. More in a bit.
Steve Himmer responded to criticism about peace marches, in particular the individual actions of self-expression: The individual voice in an election doesn’t individually matter. Done. In a march or a rally, on the other hand, that voice can matter–and it can matter without having either the individual voice or the collective subsumed. As 10,000 people march in […]
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New squid on the block
Knowing my obsession with the giant squid, Jonathon sent me a link to a relatively fresh story from the BBC about an intact speciman of giant squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni found in Antartica waters. This in itself is exciting because so little is known about this species of squid outside of what’s recovered from the stomach of its chieftest enemy – the sperm […]