Note Arlo’s hands in the last two panels of the 2011 comic above. It is very easy, when drawing hands, to get it all backwards, especially when the hands are in dynamic positions. Because of this, I often sit at my drawing board and flail my arms about my head and back, envisioning where my fingers end up. It’s a very good thing cartooning is a solitary art. Well, spring as arrived, although it might come as a surprise to our friends in the Midwest and the Northeast. Spring arrived in parts of the South in typical fashion: accompanied by hail and tornadoes. I apologize for not posting much lately, but I hope you’ll take my word for it that it was an exceptionally busy winter around here. I’ve been pulled in many directions the past couple of months, and I don’t take that well. I’m a tunnel-vision kind of guy who focuses on one task to the detriment of others. And don’t we all have more than one task? Anyway, we’re not going out of business here, evidence to the contrary.
177 responses to “‘A little bird rolled me.’”
Lizards are like this; if they’ve nothing to do, they don’t do anything.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-watering-hole-animal-camera
Peace,
The scoop on Mercury’s association w/ Wed. I’m not sure they’re right re the equivalence of Norse Odin w/ Mercury/Hermes. They may be. Probably lots of ancients didn’t realize that Mercury one planet, not two. Likewise Venus [Abendstern und Morgenstern, ja?].
Peace,
Two eggs in Baltimore:
https://explore.org/livecams/chesapeake-conservancy/peregrine-falcon-chesapeake-conservancy
Peace [but not for starlings and rock pigeons],
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2013/11/14
Apparently, the answer to Arlo’s question is “Face Book and its business plan.” You’re trading a certain amount of your personal privacy for all the free services FB gives you.
TANSTAAFL
Do you ever think about animals coping with blizzards? Or nor’easters?
https://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/eagle-protecting-egg-perseveres-as-snowfall-buries-it-during-noreaster/xhctnyzte6jqpvfvmidgn1x4mgl8wayj
Ghost, it is not just Facebook but everthing on the internet. My IT manager showed me all of the extranous sh…stuff that you can pick up just going to a newspaper website. He has banned all company computors from accessing Facebook and Twitter and denies access to a lot of links on Fox, CNN, etc. It is important to have a good antivirus program and to rewiew it periodically as the hackers get more sophisticated.
Of course my phone notifies me every morning when I wake up how long my commute will be. Even on weekends it tells me how long it takes to go to church and if I want directions to the local greasy spoon. OF COURSE I DON’T, I GO THERE EVERY WEEK AND YOU KNOW IT! When my wife realized this, I told her that she should be relieved that is gives directions to church and not the local adult book store.
There is a free program called Ghostery that blocks the tracking cookies and also shows you what is trying to track you on the sites you visit. One news link I look at regularly shows up as over 20 trackers that would be collecting my reading data without it.
True that, Steve. But FB and Zuck are suddenly taking the heat now for doing what everyone should have already known they (and others) were doing for years.
Ghost and others
You have radio time.
A pet peeve – on TV or in print – the character says “Over & Out” on a 2 way radio.
You are one or the other – not both.
Ghost, I’ve never had an account at FB, because I never saw any use for it. It’s now abundantly clear that their business model consists of getting large numbers of strangers to tell them their personal data, then selling it for profit. If they have any of mine, they didn’t get it from me!
Yes, as a MN vertebrate zoologist, I do. No nor’easters here, just blizzards and bitter cold. Herd of deer shelter in the woods NE of The Meadows. Part of it was cut down to make a desirable public sports area for local residents. There are likely fewer deer, though nobody’s ever done a census to my knowledge. No idea how may don’t make it most winters.
His eye may be on the sparrow [Mt.10:29-31], but He[?] watches lots of them freeze. That’s one of the readings I’ve selected for BUMC’s 0900 service, 1/2 hr discussion/sermon style. Isaiah 65 also has something re a lion eating straw, like an ox, in “my holy mountain.” Fun.
Peace,
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29512216_953813508129210_2187646488480317440_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=28f3c3a91b547cf0524e000480abb0de&oe=5B3FD619
From the Acme Corporation Balloon Division, Mark? If so, the ones shipped to Wile E. Coyote would actually explode, I suspect.
Good night John boy
Mt. Nyala, I think.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-river-wildlife-camera
Peace,
Really unusual sky color this morning during sunrise. Don’t know how to describe it. Not red, more of a pale violet maybe. Quite overcast now.
Chesapeake ospreys are back. Baltimore adult is on eggs, so we cannot count them.
https://explore.org/livecams/chesapeake-conservancy/osprey-cam-chesapeake-conservancy
Peace,
How did that dogyard get there? URL was right, no?
https://explore.org/livecams/ospreys/osprey-cam-chesapeake-conservancy
Peace?
Three eggs: adult was off for a bit.
https://explore.org/livecams/chesapeake-conservancy/peregrine-falcon-chesapeake-conservancy
Peace,
Great Spirit Bluff nestbox. Acting like maybe an egg is on the way?
https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/peregrine-falcon-cam
Peace,
Have decided the Oklahoma State Tree must be the Orange-and-White Traffic Barrel.
The Michigan State tree is still to be determined….Once it pops out of the pothole, I’ll let you know!
I’m not really a believer in reincarnation, but if I do come back I hope I live on a farm with a sign out front on which is my name followed by the phrase “Standing at Stud”.
Reticulated giraffe. Didn’t check horns. Probably not kosher.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera
Peace,
Last year, one of the pair at this nest site had a few rusty neck feathers. New mate?
https://explore.org/livecams/chesapeake-conservancy/osprey-cam-chesapeake-conservancy
Peace,