"Teddy Bear," the porcupine, doesn't like to share...

via boing boing, though I believe I've seen shorter chunks elsewhere...

Shaky let me know there was a home business spam sent from my ekarle@p...net account.  I don't think anyone on the forum per se will be affected-I don't use that account here-but I wanted to mention it anyway.  I haven't sent anyone an email lately, so if you get one from that account from now on it's not really me.

I don't generally keep contact lists, but I think I ferreted out the list where it originated-back when we used yahoo chat it saved a few of the people who used to issue invites to the chat.  Shaky was one of them.  Hopefully clearing the list & a few other security settings will stop it from happening again.  

EDIT: masked the email address so spammers don't get it from here.

...to check your medications for interactions with handy links to an interaction checker from our Screech-owl friend, Chris Johnson

http://chriswjohnson.blogspot.com/2011/11/check-your-drug-interactions-avoid-rude.html

Beauty arrives on Mercury...



Still there, though it's getting too dark to see her clearly

1st I've seen her there in a while!

That's odd...I'm with Kris-I only see the wildlife one so far for 2012.

do you think Tiago will stay for Christmas?? and maybe Storm' will vist

Tiago usually does stay.

The Bicycle Animation

Katy Beveridge turned her bicycle wheel into a zoetrope, fastening cut sheets of paper to the spokes so that the bike's wheels displayed sweet animations when in motion.

    This is a piece created to question whether it was possible to film animation in realtime. Part of my CSM 3rd year disseration project I was looking at proto animation (really early basic animation) in contemporary design. I've taken a lot of influence from other contemporary designers who are using these techniques to explore the way we look at animation and how its made. As stated on my channel I have interviewed animators such as Jim le Fevre and in my research referenced other people using this technique such as David Wilson and Tim Wheatley who did this before me. I developed this project based on what is being done in animation right now as well as a lot of primary research into the history of animation techniques.

via Boing Boing

Slow couple of days...

Old English Sheepdog on Bicycle

Boy am I glad I didn't switch over right away to announce someone was home...



Never thought I'd get a shot like this at the Sheraton! 

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[All About Birds]

Very dark...female or young male...

tidbits from All About Birds

    * The Snowy Owl can be found represented in cave paintings in Europe.
    * Young male Snowy Owls are barred with dark brown and get whiter as they get older. Females keep some dark markings throughout their lives. Young males tend to have a white bib, a white back of the head, and fewer rows of bars on the tail than females. Although the darkest males and the palest females are nearly alike in color, the whitest birds are always males and the most heavily barred ones are always females. Some old males can be nearly pure white.

I found another video of Simon's cat.

Dumpsterkitty does that ALL the time!   

 

What's up with the haze?  There's a little bit on the 8AM pic...and the very bottom is relatively clear...spider web?

Simon's Cat in 'Catnap'