Makes sense: giant dinosaurs had giant fleas. Or as the Yahoo headline writer put it, “When blood-sucking mega-fleas stalked the Earth.” Rather florid. Alcohol a factor in woman’s cannonball death, authorities say. And to show you that things are really hoppin’ in San Diego County (see woman’s cannonball death) 50 roosters rescued as police break …
Author: Reid Farmer
Puppies
As Steve posted a few days ago, Connie and I did make a quick trip to New Mexico to look at Aussie pups. After our lab mix Maggie died in January, our Aussie Sadie has been pretty sad and lonely. We’ve planned all along to get another dog, and an Aussie was our preference. Connie …
Bison Hunt
I don’t go on the north end of town much, so I missed seeing this until the Denver Post pointed it out this morning. An unknown graffiti artist calling himself/herself “Karma” used abandoned concrete culvert segments located just off of I-25 in Westminster, as a canvas to paint an Indian bison hunter and his quarry. …
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Spain has won a court challenge to claim sunken treasure from the wreck of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, sunk off the Portugese coast during the Napoleonic Wars. I found it interesting that the Peruvian government tried to make a last-minute claim to the treasure based on the fact the precious metal was mined in …
Quote of the Day
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” — Albert Einstein
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Archaeologists at the University of Oregon are using a blimp to help them map and photograph medicine wheels in southeastern Oregon. Loved this picture. I find it fascinating that paleontologists have found a Permian forest almost 300 million years-old miraculously preserved in volcanic ash in China. I find it frustrating there are no pictures of …
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
Just this morning I ran across a link to this lecture given by the late Michael Crichton about ten years ago, on a peculiar effect of our modern news media. I have recently had a work-related occurence which unfortunately I cannot blog about, that has convinced me of its essential truth. After you read this, …
Not Sharing
A few days ago our local pair of Red-tailed Hawks killed a cottontail at the end of my neighbor’s driveway. Didn’t take long before the moochers started to show up. It didn’t take much Magpie harrassment for the female to get disgusted and take off with most of the rabbit. The male refused to move …
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Archaeologists in Spain believe they made have found the first cave art painted by Neandertals. Currently none is known and the only firm evidence we have of any Neandertal art are some recently discovered painted sea shells. This is thought to be the painting of a seal or sea lion. The evidence is somewhat circumstantial. …
Maggie 1999 – 2012 RIP
Maggie, our Lab-Dalmatian mix, was diagnosed with terminal cancer back in October. After a couple of early emergencies, she seemed to stabilize and was able to spend time with us through the New Year in reasonable comfort. That gave her a chance to say good-bye to our children who came to visit over the holidays. …