Two of the strangest showcases of human society I know are the zoo, any zoo (I have written more than a bit on this) and the Post Office. I could go in a lot of directions with the PO (many of you know that Lib works in a rural PO) but I only want to …
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December in the sheep pasture
The Wind River Mountains are magnificent in their snow-covered spendor, but the sagebrush rangelands still contain only a scattering of snow. The image below is our New Fork River pasture where the sheep are currently located, taken at sunrise earlier this week. It was about -8 degrees that morning, which is a typical overnight low …
Silly dog pic
Chipotle (“Chip”), the PO Lab, waiting for a cookie from one of his customers (photo by Yvonne Magener, through her PO box…):
Pretty dog pix
Jutta Ruebesam’s team, tazi Nhubia and taigan Taalai:
Gos in action
From Paul Domski: a few of the amazing photo sequence that photographer Mark Wiliams shot of his Gos. (As always click to enlarge). Mark’s site is here.
Christopher Hitchens 1949- 2011 RIP
Damn but we are losing some good ones. I hardly always agreed with “Hitch” (who could?) but AM inclined to agree with Jonathan Hanson: “The collective IQ of the planet just dropped noticeably.” Update: hunter, man of letters, and Catholic Tom McIntyre is another not uncritical admirer. He writes: “According to NPR, Hitch’s most important …
Eevil Killer Dino- Birds
(With apologies to Darren). Walter Hingley sends word of new theories coming out the Museum of the Rockies about the ever- closer similarities becoming apparent between raptorial dinos and modern raptors. The illo is lurid but wonderful: Of course some of us have always thought so, notably John McLoughlin. “Washington and Moscow…” UPDATE: Quote is …
More John Lincoln Wright
Ironically but not surprisingly John Lincoln Wright’s few surviving recordings are now going through the roof. I only hope as commenter Pat said “… Rounder or some other outfit will release all of John’s music on CD.” Pat pointed me to some good YouTube links. If you don’t have time for the whole list, “I’m …
Old Stuff
Doing the sort of consulting work that we do in archaeology, we mostly don’t get to break significant new ground in research. We don’t get to pick where we do our work: the client decides where he wants to build his project. Actually, we devote much effort helping our client find places to put his …
Hot Links
Roaming around the internets, I keep bumping into stories about zombie ants. Apparently a fungus infects an ant’s brain and causes it to wander away from the nest and die so the fungus can consume the entire body. Maybe some of you biologically savvy folks know more about this. Makes for awesome pictures and the …