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3:00 snapshot, #301

  • May. 9th, 2008 at 8:41 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana


I feel like I'm in a contest with myself to come up with the ugliest snapshot.

Noticing the year 05/08/08

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 9:25 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana
Warm day today, nearly 80 in the Boston area. On our evening dog walk it had cooled down a bit, and the Riverway was thick with birds. We saw a half dozen catbirds, three groups of Canada geese with goslings, and a few unidentifiable warblers. And then on the way back I heard my favorite bird song. It was right by the path, so we stopped for a while until we could see him. He sang for a few times more, and at the moment when Alexis pulled her camera out, he flew off.

3:00 snapshot, #299

  • May. 8th, 2008 at 5:52 AM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana

While at a stoplight on Blue Hill Ave, on a zoo errand in the zoo van.

3:00 snapshot, #298

  • May. 7th, 2008 at 7:01 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana

The view out my office window is getting better every day!

Noticing the year 05/07/08

  • May. 7th, 2008 at 6:08 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana
After getting to work at 6 this morning, I was rewarded with my first Baltimore oriole sighting this morning (having heard them the past two evenings). Then, about an hour later, over the heads of a crowd of disinterested parties, my first catbird of the year! Alexis rejoices for catbirds with the same passion that she reviles juncos. And then, just a few minutes ago as I sat on the warm grass in the park with Jim and Charlie, we were buzzed by the swallows that live in the nearby stone bridges. Three firsts of the year in two days! Not bad at all.

Noticing the year 05/05/08

  • May. 6th, 2008 at 6:25 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana
I forgot to post this last night. We heard our first oriole of the year! We couldn't see it, but the song was unmistakable. I think the same individuals claim the same territories around us. Orioles seem to each have different songs, and I'm pretty sure I recognized the melody of the one we heard last night. It's a nice feeling, like seeing a friend you haven't seen in months.
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana
No one who grew up in the Pioneer Valley will be surprised that this is a Hampshire College study. Hey, if you can design your own curriculum, why not robot squirrels?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_sc/robotic_squirrel

in case the story goes away, or you don't want to follow the link )

How walkable is your neighborhood?

  • May. 5th, 2008 at 11:58 AM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana
This is a pretty cool tool. You just type in an address, and it tells you how "walkable" the area is, in terms of how close different services and stores are. My neighborhood scored an 86, which is pretty good but makes me wonder what neighborhood could possibly get a 100. Maybe if you lived in a shopping mall, or in certain parts of New York.

Also, it's clearly not a perfect program, as it told me that my closest bar was an Orange Julius. I wouldn't have moved here if that was true.

Tell me what your neighborhood's walkability score is!

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West Roxbury Quarry

  • May. 5th, 2008 at 5:47 AM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana


We went hiking in the woods near West Roxbury Quarry yesterday. We found some interesting things.
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3:00 snapshot, #296

  • May. 5th, 2008 at 5:34 AM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana


We look at Alexis' slideshow of pictures, upon returning from the West Roxbury Quarry.

3:00 snapshot, #295

  • May. 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana

Today, among other things, I dusted our fireworks collection.

Brookline Massachusetts in May

  • May. 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana

Just a few shots to show you what it looks like in my neighborhood these days.
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3:00 snapshot, #294

  • May. 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana


Today was the vet tech student's last day. Thanks for all the hard work, c.!

New Soylent Screen Up!

  • Apr. 29th, 2008 at 7:06 PM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana
I finally saw Cronenberg's The Fly! Hey [info]wirrrn, now I HAVE heard of insect politics! Read my take on this classic, 22 years after the fact, here!

Dogs Bite Two On Face; Makes News

  • Apr. 29th, 2008 at 5:16 AM
cold, feeding gull, I love this show!, phidippus, troops, Bear attack, dam drugs, compassionate conservative, bostonia, hoh rainforest, attack pigeon, obama, pigeon foot, stick insect, deer, fox eyes, morel, jeckyll pipe, Goofy man and dog, jekyll drinks, owl bite, wolf jaws, animal training, Deer enclosure, shaman homer, Jack Lord, Dr. Dog DMV, with chicken, oak man, spooky, dude, Autumn, svasvastika, Hawk, Deer?, mealworms, Soylent Screen!, imagine, scutigera, enrichment, black and tan, springtail, Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum, Work for Shit, grampa, David Attenborough, peanuts dancers, patience the trailer, potto, wading, hawkeats, glass raven, lichen, goggles, Maggots, urine, Snail, beaver, Suit, Boston, south african starling, with camera bw, Chimney swift, Louis, maggieseye, Jesus riding a dinosaur, Darwin, Dale's Dead Bug, Republican, owl eye, monarch, Silly sausage!, helmet, eastern hemlock, The Devil, PART OF EVERYTHING, Kissyface, All Suffering SOON TO END!, marchfirst2005blizzard, feel free to touch us, machete, Loyal, It stinks, family portrait, Perv, mazegill, moai, Charlie's jacket, Shatner, Pan (from Pan paperbacks), Repo Man, hermes is invisible, Tito!, Shaun and Ed, God Sleeps, possum 04, treefrog, dandelion, boddingtons, Bowling for Rhinos! "borrowed" from Tuls, Island Man, vernal pool, caveman jef, no stacking, Drinky crow, facing the wave, lobster face, ella and louis, Charlie's bloody foot, boston in january, marmot, I LOVE DOGS, fsm, tasty banana
Boy, two, bitten in face by dog
The dog is a staffordshire bull terrier--a pit bull by most American bsl, but not by the UK's Dangerous Dog Act, which bans 'American' pit bulls. The circumstances of the bite are not mentioned, except that the dog belonged to relatives--the boy was a stranger to the dog, but everyone involved is 'family.' Someone quoted in the article says, "If the owners can't keep dogs under control when they're around their own family, how are they going to behave towards anybody else?"

The first comment to the story is someone wondering how someone could keep that kind of dog around children, followed by a deluge of comments quoting from the breed standard describing the staffy as a good family dog that is good around children. No description of the child's injuries except that the single bite 'required hospitalization.'


Woman, 85, Severely Bitten On Face In Dog Attack
Here the circumstances of the attack are described, which is necessary, since adults are so rarely the victims in dog attacks, especially those that result in facial injuries. Probably the reporter felt that the fact that the victim was 85 was especially important--more attention-grabbing than that '2' in the first story. The woman was on her hands and knees cleaning when the dog bit her. It is not explained, however, who the dog belonged to. The injuries are described in some detail: 60 stitches needed, plastic surgery, and morphine needed for the pain.

The breed of dog, cocker spaniel, is mentioned once in the article but not elaborated on by experts or neighbors--or, so far, by the peanut gallery on the internet-- as a factor in the attack.

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