On the way out of Up, ostone commented that there should have been one last "Squirrel!" joke at the end.

Driving out of the parking lot, sarkat and I both said "Squirrel! Stop, stop ( Read more... )

Yesterday was wildlife day at the apartment: fruit flies and baby squirrels. These are different in every regard:

Fruit flies:
Very annoying
Lots of them
All over, in the apartment
But given that we have fruit flies, we've got (I think) the coolest species to have, Drosophila melanogaster itself (the standard genetics experiment fly ( Read more... )

http://www.maniasarcania.com/2008/08/01/wotlk-beta-we-have-5-pet-slots/

(cf. http://sedesdraconis.livejournal.com/168446.html )

And it all came to a pretty easy jaunt through Upper Blackrock Spire, and burning down Valathalak, and now it is complete! One of the rarest complete sets in all the game: Beastmaster (D2)! (Okay, so that's partly because it's useless, but partly because it takes a lot of work!)

( Screenshots! )

News Flash! Lore Sjoberg's brain is full of bored ferretsLore talks about Attention Plethora problems, and a lot of it is very familiar to me. I've been watching movies recently to go to sleep, because neither music nor reading take up enough of my attention anymore. (also carrying things around to do with your hands: one of the reasons I made ( Read more... )

So a hummingbird got into the barn, flapping away at the skylights. I was terrified it was going to die of exhaustion at any minute, cause hummingbirds do not have much to fall back on.

I opened the window that opened, and got up on the roof and covered the skylight it was at with a blanket (the extension ladder is fucking heavy. It went over ( Read more... )