Saturday late afternoon 10/26:
A late molting Redbird-at first I thought it was a female. Usually, they molt August/September-I bet he's freezing:
Big Woody flew back and forth from Father Birch to the feeder-I've noticed a major uptick in seed consumption this week. Winter is coming.
Shadows:
A cool feature is a
crescent moon and star are carved into the hat. The light shining
through projects a number of crescent shapes on the ceiling.
We're re-watching The Good Place which came out prepandemic. It's a curious show about the quandaries of ethical and moral philosophy as a group of dead people try to prove that they have led good enough lives to go to "The Good Place". Problem is that they are trying to do this while in The Bad Place, constantly being harassed by demons and the insanely byzantine bureaucracies in both the Good and Bad Place. It seemed fitting in the current situations we find in our world.
10/27-morning low of 28°.
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Somethings things transcend species when it comes to couples-In the dog house on the savannah:
Where have you been? I've been stuck here all day with your children and finally you wander back because you were "on patrol to protect us". No you haven't, you've been at Harry's pub-I can smell it on your breath! You're sleeping out in the bush tonight, pal. And no, there is no supper. Your children ate all it up. Maybe there's some bones left to gnaw on. I really don't care. Why don't you get off your fat, furry ass and catch something and don't you dare tell me that it's my job.
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Major corporate jackasses:
Seen while out and about: Tesla Cybertruck. All electric starting at $82,000. For me, this is an ugly tank. Coming from Muskrat, it's an absurd expression of manliness-no feminine elegance and curves here-all sharp corners and tough.
And another rich bastard and like most, a fucking coward:
My feeling is that he met with the actuaries who ran the numbers and presented two scenarios: a) he endorses Harris and pisses Roach off. "He can make your business life very difficult" was the conclusion. b) he endorses Roach or no one at all and becomes a social pariah to friends, family, employees, colleagues from the extreme blowback of betraying his newspaper's tagline "democracy dies in darkness". He chose (b)-to protect his investments, grandiose space plans and continue to make money even though he has more money than the deity who exists in theory (but not as much as Muskrat).
Now in fairness, Bezos clashed with Roach on a number of occasions during his 1.0 term and considering that one of the advertised features of 2.0 is vicious retribution to anyone opposing him, certainly was on his mind. It shows Roach's power to intimidate and emasculate.
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I've been watching the 1967 series "The Prisoner" starring Patrick McGoohan. In episode 2, many aspects of The Village of life under authoritarian/prison rule are revealed: no names-you're a number, everyone dresses the same (although rather natty after all, they're British!), everyone is under constant surveillance-in their residences, out and about. Also, every residence has a radio which blares constantly-wakey, wakey every friggin' morning. I wondered who started this and found it was the Nazis. They were determined to push propaganda to the masses and began manufacturing basic and affordable radios called Volksempfänger (people's receiver) in 1933. Communist nations picked up on this idea-Russia, China, N. Korea, Vietnam. George Orwell extended this concept in 1984 with the ubiquitous telescreens featuring Big Brother.
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The work of Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde "Nimbus":
How the artist creates clouds inside buildings:
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Welp, I never caught sight of Comet A3 despite clear skies for several nights. Sigh.
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Fun Vids:
Mola mola or ocean sunfish:
Trippy Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction:
Blowing soap bubbles in extreme cold:
Mangalitsa pigs:
Utah waterfall flowing in reverse due to high winds:
Orca putting out bait to catch birds:
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