Thursday, November 19, 2009
tomorrow!
Charlie will be home for lunch... and will stay a week through his dad's birthday and Thanksgiving. Yay!
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Why we keep him
Got this email from my son in response to the query of what he plans to herd with the pair of 10-foot bullwhips he wants for Christmas. I guessed dinosaurs, and was on the money: It only works on certain dinosaurs of course. Maiosaurs, Edmontosaurs, Corythosauruses, and such. You would think Iguanadons, but they have these pretty nasty thumbspikes they are not afraid of using if they get pissed off or feel threatened. And you always have to watch out and make sure you don't create a stampede....
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
WARNING: Don't Go There!
DO NOT VISIT MY UNIVERSE BLOG TODAY No kidding--some sort of malware is triggering a warning and shutting down my internet connection when I go to write or read the latest post on that blog. I have emailed admins here and also copied 10 pages of prior posts, in case the matter calls for shutting down this oldest of my blogs. But not that last one. The post is of a poem I copy/pasted from my own files on my own home computer, and I have no idea how it may have gotten infected with anything. It...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The eloquence of whales
Of course we hear the sounds they make underwater--even without hydrophones, I understand, we can hear when we are in that environment ourselves. With hydrophones, we can hear clearly the intonations of many kind of whales, voices carrying hundreds even thousands of miles through the water. But it is not how they speak to us. Yes, they do communicate with human beings, and they have from time to time made quite pointed remarks with a precise use of body language. One afternoon, we sat on our...
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Monday, November 9, 2009
In view of whales
It was a fine vantage point, that corner of the island on the edge of the Johnstone Straits. The view straight west was of Vancouver Island some miles away. I never had a sense of how many exactly, but guessed between three and five; about a third the distance to that shore, from the south a narrow stretch of land pointed northward: Cracroft Point; facing it, the south shore of Hanson Island. It was a maritime crossroads, used regularly by all that use the sea: the whales, the fishermen--both...
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