No, no, ‘e’s uh,…he’s resting, originally uploaded by Gavatron.Seen on St. George Street. Sorry if this burns your eyes.
Spring is here!
No, no, ‘e’s uh,…he’s resting, originally uploaded by Gavatron.Blog
No, no, ‘e’s uh,…he’s resting, originally uploaded by Gavatron.If you’ve got inconsistent Wood, you’ve got problems
A screen-grab of a Major League Baseball headline today:
On purpose? Innocent mistake? You’ve gotta think they knew what they were doing with this headline.
Ant “farmers” and Hemipteran “cattle”
Ants and Aphids, originally uploaded by furryscaly.A neat photograph of some species of Citronella Ant (Acanthomyops sp.) “farming” Aphids or Mealybugs (both Hemipterans).
The hemipteran insects feed on the roots of plants and exude a sugary substance called honeydew that the ants then feed on.
One of my photographs featured on BlogTO’s Flickr Forum
This photograph was included today in weekly feature on BlogTO, whose name should tip you off as a local blog.
I’ve commented further on the photo there. I think it’s an interesting photograph because the subject is surprising rather than being a particularly good photograph.
The fur is dead. Long live the fur!
Ollie is a new dog, now that we’ve finished stripping him.
Students write…
“Ants protecting plants basically means that plants are protected by ants.”
Oh boy.
“Camponotus affinis does the loin’s share of this work…”
I wonder what that would look like…
Truth in advertising
Petfinder.com is a great way to find dogs available for adoption and in fact, Herbie was found with Petfinder’s help! Usually they have some sappy description about the dog that is completely irrelevant to the dog’s demeanour (something along the lines of what celebrity a dog looks like, for example). I was looking to see if there were any BTs up for adoption today and came across the following write-up about Stella:
Stella is a Lab/Border Collie??? mix. She would love a home where she can hang out on the couch as she’s very docile and laid back. Stella lived in a junk yard in the city and would have about 2 litters a year and all her pups would die. Her owner was shot and killed so Stella went to live on the tough streets. When she was rescued by Mayme she was very pregnant-again. Mayme was able to adopt the surviving puppies out, but not Stella, so she’s still with us. Stella is around 6 years old.
Yikes. Now that’s quite the write-up. But I still want to know what celebrity she most resembles…
Field Guide Fetish
Just realized, while tidying up today, that I have two book shelves FULL of field guides. What can I say? I love books, I’m curious about the natural world and I make collections.
I’m lucky enough that I have a discount/used book store where I can usually stock up (my latest purchases there were Observing the Moon and the Stokes’ Animal Tracking and Behavior.
I’m most excited about a book I had to order from Alibris: Myxomycetes: A Handbook of Slime Molds. I think that Slime Molds are the neatest thing.
Origami Box: Finished Product
This is what I do when I should be working on my comprehensives. Oh well, reading week is for, well, doing anything but reading.
Browsing my RSS feeds (I guess that counts as reading, doesn’t it?) I noticed that Jason Kottke had posted about origami. In the post, inspired by a recent article on Robert Lang, an origamist extraordinaire, Kottke posted a link to a simple origami project and a photo of the finished product.
In the past I’ve been more than frustrated by paper folding; I think it’s the representation of a three dimensional object in two dimensions that gets me. But, after having stumbled through the instructions once (and getting the subject of the next photo in my stream), I ended up with my very own post-it-note box. What an achievement!
Spam killed the email star
Sad, but true:
And the reason why this is an image is because spammers harvest email addresses from pages. Update your respective address books.
Proof? I was labelling all the email from my gavan account in Gmail. Here’s a screen shot of my junk folder:
See you later Norman Felbert, Paavo Sheilds, JayTonya Kerkoulova, Anthony Garcia & the obtusely named “peripheral”. If those are your real names…