You know what's really unfair? shinyget is out hawking right now and I'm not.

I know, right.

BUT. To make up for that, I'm going to finally put up some of my photos from OFA's fall meet, like, a month ago.

( Aren't they pretty? )

This is amazing.


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Every once in a while, things happen at work that make me laugh. Not so much entertaining occurrences, although yes, those do happen ("DA-AAD! CAN'T WE DO SOMETHING ILLEGAL FOR ONCE?!"). But no, I mean more along the lines of finding a set of fishing lures which proclaim themselves to be X-TREME ACTION SLASHBAIT! And I'm like... lol wat. Or the ( Read more... )

( Tiny falcon, large image )

Penelope is a freak. XD

Details will come later... like, after she's learned to sit upright.

SO FUCKING AWESOME

Okay gonna run over to Curtis' now, I'll be back to discuss HOW COMPLETELY AWESOME THAT WAS later. Oh and also this past weekend which involved HARLOT EATING THE STILL-BEATING HEART OF A RABBIT, AHAHAHA. Which was also awesome. Man, there's been a lot of awesome lately in my life.

Urgh, I really hope I'm over this illness by tomorrow. Falconry > flu, man. SURPRISE I KNOW.

On the topic of awesome birds doing awesome hunting, though: the BBC have just posted a fascinating article, along with two videos, showing never-before-documented footage of golden eagles hunting reindeer calves. Apparently the native reindeer-herding ( Read more... )

From the CDC website:

What is CDC’s recommendation regarding "swine flu parties"?
"Swine flu parties" are gatherings during which people have close contact with a person who has 2009 H1N1 flu in order to become infected with the virus. The intent of these parties is for a person to become infected with what for many people has been a mild disease ( Read more... )

Well, my speakers are officially dead. Ugh. They started failing about two weeks ago - often, one would work but the other one wouldn't, unless I laid one on its side. No, I don't understand, either. But suddenly today, it seems neither will work reliably, and often whichever one does "work" is quiet and buzzy. I just don't get it. They're Logitech ( Read more... )

Finally caught up with the series 2 opener of Merlin. And I'm glad to see that it is still as lulzy and fail as last season, with only a moderately better CG budget. ;D (Actually, the gargoyles looked pretty good, and they interacted with the real actors pretty well, considering.) Merlin still looks like Fievel, but at least he didn't wear that ( Read more... )