{"id":1737,"date":"2013-03-11T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-03-14T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:16:08","slug":"dust-mites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/1737","title":{"rendered":"Dust Mites"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Moving right along…<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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Yes, you’ve seen this picture before<\/a>. Big deal, a familiar roost for eagles. So what, nothing out of the ordinary, right?<\/p>\n

Very well then, take that Snopes!<\/p>\n

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\u00b0. 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Predictably, the comment threads were ringing off the hook — “Evolution is directionless<\/strong>!! Stop telling laymen this is backwards<\/em> evolution. They’ll get the mistaken impression evolution means forward progress, improvement, and before you know it they’ll think humans are biologically better<\/em> — or worse! — superior<\/em> to dust mites!”<\/p>\n

Have a nice day everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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