I realize it is unwise for a blogger to admonish his readership, but really, no comments on the adorable dog video? When I surfed to YouTube to embed it I noted that there were >115,000 comments there. But not a one here? Okay. Fine. Be that way.
Moving right along…
Alaska viewers may have their BS detector go off when seeing this picture. Hint: Taken by me this past weekend on the beach near our beach house:
Yes, you’ve seen this picture before. Big deal, a familiar roost for eagles. So what, nothing out of the ordinary, right?
Very well then, take that Snopes!
That last time we tripped down to the beach house was a couple weeks before leaving for Maui, so she’d been alone for ~6 weeks. All was well and I was pleased to see very little propane had been needed to keep her at a cozy 44°. Owing to the very mild weather in February/early March in the Seward area, I suppose. We’re installing a wood stove come spring which we expect will greatly reduce propane usage. At $3.50/lb this will be a good thing.
Elsewhere, I was pleased to see new evidence for a phenomenon I was already convinced was not only possible, but anecdotallly true, based on my considerable experience working for certain simian-like managers in corporate America — reverse evolution. The latest evidence comes to us from dust mites, tiny — though via electron enlargement one appears more like a giant claw sporting a helmet, right? — parasitic critters that have supposedly devolved into their ancestral form, no longer in need of the nooks ‘n crannies of your sofa or mattress to thrive.
Predictably, the comment threads were ringing off the hook — “Evolution is directionless!! Stop telling laymen this is backwards evolution. They’ll get the mistaken impression evolution means forward progress, improvement, and before you know it they’ll think humans are biologically better — or worse! — superior to dust mites!”
Have a nice day everyone.