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okay. so. animalia:

jt posted pictures of the cooper's hawk, and today, while i was looking in the courtyard at the mourning dove that apparently got injured sometime today (many tail feathers missing, unable to fly, slowly freezing to death, except for when a fucking devil squirrel jumped on it's back and started biting it) (i... i know i cannot help the dove, i don't have the time, i don't have a place, and my cat can open doors, so i really don't have a place. maybe it'll get better. it doesn't seem to be bleeding externally, and there is food on the ground, so it might be able to make it. but some part of me wants to just kill it quickly. maybe the hawk will come back, but it seems to be a falcon, snatching birds from the air, and so i don't know if it will eat a ground-bird.) uh. right. nesting statements. anyway, next to the dove, there is a bush where three (or more) mice live. they are very cute. but one ran into a drainpipe leading into the building, so i expect there are many mice living in the subfloor. oh. also, a male cardinal, and a nuthatch.


and liam dropped off cat's magic cards today. they include 14 unopened boosters. man i want to open them. but maybe i should just hold on to them. calm, pat, calm.

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uh. stuff about the approaching police state

do you remember Paranoia? each character had six backup clones, because they wanted sessions to last at least an hour? PDA features

and google wants booble to cease and desist.

periodic table of condiments makes me happy, because it's on boingboing, and is discordian. i wish the table were better designed, though. whole point of the periodic table is that it tells you things by where they are placed.

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muppet origami

and, uh, animated .gifs of slashyness. i'm sure some of you will be very appreciative. some LoTR, some buffy, pirates, and newsies. i've never seen newsies. the one for pirates is very well done.

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so. that whole... world needs cleansing fire thing? more support.


and an interview with a linguist:

What's your favourite example of a big difference between languages?

In English I can tell my son: "Today I talked to Adrian", and he won't ask: "How do you know you talked to Adrian?" But in some languages, including Tariana, you always have to put a little suffix onto your verb saying how you know something - we call it "evidentiality". I would have to say: "I talked to Adrian, non-visual," if we had talked on the phone. And if my son told someone else, he would say: "She talked to Adrian, visual, reported." In that language, if you don't say how you know things, they think you are a liar.

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more from mcsweeneys:

We talked over lunch with one of the entropists, a man who slept with people to see what would happen when he refused to commit afterwards. His name was Dr. Behan. He was a man. That is why we say "he" and "his" when referring to him.

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surrealism, in literature, is interesting.

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the museum of jurassic technology, california

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More mcsweeney's:

Soon, it was 1981, and I was George Bush. It wasn't an easy job, being vice- president to Reagan; for one thing, he had an odd habit of, every time he saw me, announcing, "There he is! The vice-president! The president of vice! So, George, partaken in any vices lately?" After about the thirtieth time he did this, I snapped: "Jesus, Ron, get some new material already, would you?" He smacked me, hard; there was a handprint on my face for the rest of the day. I never sassed the President again.