An Unsure Lunch

And people think *I’m* picky. Clearly they need to spend more time watching a cormorant trying to get a fish angled just so in their beak, the easier to swallow it, my dear.

At the same park that is home to the noble, levitating roadrunner, a large artificial pond provides fishing opportunities for adults, for kids, and, it turns out, for cormorants. Of course, these opportunities aren’t necessarily close to shore, which accounts for the quality or lack thereof of these fully zoomed, heavily cropped photos.

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I apologise, I can help nothing

Let’s check in on the blog-spam file, shall we? It’s been almost a year since the last review, maybe because there’s been so much less spam, at least in English. The torrent in what I believe is the Cyrillic alphabet continues, неослабевающий.

Even with relatively few samples, there are unmistakable strategies. Some try to sneak through with a compliment, whether vague . . .

Very good phrase

You are similar to the expert)))

Bravo, seems excellent idea to me is

. . . or more precise. More expansive, at any rate.

Hello my family member! I wwnt to say that this post is awesome,
great written and include approximately all important infos.
I would like to look more possts like this .

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Both Together Now

Left, right,
left, right.

A non-obligatory but familiar cadence for bipeds, no? It’s so familiar we even see it in the bipedal roadrunner, which can fly but which tends not to. Neither would I bother flying, except by, well, exception, if I could run as well as they can.


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It’s Raining

My professional blog focuses on developing (and surviving) proposals. Seth Godin, marketeer and social philosopheer, never writes about proposals. Like, never. And yet, I often cite Seth Godin’s blog on mine. How come?

It turns out that management–of projects, of processes, of ourselves–has common themes and things-that-are-true, independent of the specific domain of activity. It turns out that people are much the same, no matter what they’re doing.

Seth’s blog today–Rainy day surfer–merits a broad audience, so I’m linking to it here.

They need us the most when it’s raining.

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Yeah, No, Ah

Yeah, no. This angle of attack won’t work.

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Palm Trees in Reflection

Remember the palm trees across the street? Of course you do, but here they are again anyway.

And here they are again again, as seen in the hood and windshield of the car, still in the garage but with the overhead door open.

Changing the angle of attack seems to untether some of  the trees from the ground. I presume it’s due to the curves in the hood, but I can’t claim to really understand it. But I don’t really need to understand it to enjoy it.

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When in danger . . .

. . . or in doubt,
run in circles,
scream and shout.

Attributions? There are various:

  • a sort-of similar exhortation in a US Infantry Journal from 1929
  • an “ancient” naval adage quoted in (or made up for?) The Caine Mutiny in 1951
  • a Robert Heinlein novel (different novels cited, so maybe 1973 or 1980 or another year altogether)
  • a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon (1985 – 1995)

The latter is, I think, where I picked it up, but Heinlein is always a possibility.

Versions? Just these that I saw:

When in danger/trouble
when/or in doubt
etc.

Is it good advice? Not really, but then it’s not really advice, is it? It’s a comment on what happens, not on what should happen.

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Tap-Tap

It looks innocuous, doesn’t it? After all, nothing about it triggers the “harmful or offensive” sense given by Oxford Languages.

Boy, can looks be deceiving. This mug is definitely nocuous.

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Contrails and Cybertrucks

Some people go to exotic destinations; I spend more time at the grocery store. But parking lots are not entirely devoid of exotic stuff.

To wit, today I saw my first in-the-flesh Tesla Cybertruck. They’re very long; even a generously proportioned parking spot barely accommodates them. Worse, their matte-ish finish doesn’t reflect very well. Maybe I should ask Trey to mention it to Elon. Clearly, the photographer lobby isn’t connecting properly with car designers.

Anyway, Cybertrucks do have windows, so there’s that.

On the same shopping trip, different parking lot, I saw a lovely tableau–contrail, high cirrus clouds, and palm tree–and I learned how patient Americans are with old ladies who stop in a driving lane to take a picture. Thanks, all y’all!

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