An interesting and amusing youtube video of wildlife captured on remote cameras in the North Cascades. It comes courtesy of the Cascades Citizen Wildlife Monitoring ProjectI'd be interested to know what the deer-like animal is that shows up at about 1:53. It has two horns that are more or less straight but appear to have a slight spiral to them ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a long day. We woke up at 6:00 am central time, and left my sister's place in Ames, Iowa to drive to the Kansas City airport, for our 2 pm flight. We flew through Kansas City because it was significantly cheaper than Des Moines. We saved some more money by doing two one-way car rentals -- one from Kansas City to Des Moines on December ( Read more... )

Happily, performed by me, rather than on me.

Some time in early December, my laptop's fan started making sounds reminiscent of a meat grinder. jackwilliambell suggested that I should replace the fan ASAP because it was probably about to die, and the motherboard would soon follow. So I ordered a replacement fan, but it didn't arrive until after mareklamo and I left for ( Read more... )

I've been slow to post because I have been a little unsure what to say ( Read more... )

( Anita Rowland passed away yesterday )

A turning leaf. The red color comes from carotene pigments in the leaf that are masked by chlorophyll until it starts to break down in fall.

Nicked from Molecule of the Day.

... that kilonazis will be the next great buzzword to hit the internet -- specifically as a quantitation of evil. For the Order-of-the-Stick-uninitiated: Roy, the leader of adventuring party, has died and gone to whatever passes for Lawful Good limbo, where he is explaining to a celestial bureaucrat why he associated with a chaotic evil character. ( Read more... )

mareklamo and I watched Million Dollar Baby, featuring Bellingham's own multi-Oscar award winning actress, Hilary Swank. Good movie, over all, but there was a moment of detachment for me...

( Behind a cut, for spoilers )

Happy birthday Terminusest!

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