Until Tuesday

• If you can spare 1 minute and 53 seconds for something that will have you shaking your head for the rest of the day click here.







• The golden cheeked warbler presents an interesting example of our lack of basic critical thinking skills and biology knowledge. You can't read anything about it that does not trash humans for it's possible demise. The likely only reason it is still here though is due to mans influence. The junipers it likes to nest in are more or less protected by mans interference with wildfires. People will say the threat is mans clearance of the trees it nests in- this isn't strictly true- it nests in junipers that are in gullies and hillsides- areas not often cleared. It is too highly specialised with too small of a range- nature had selected it for extinction a long time ago. Humans are the only reason it may actually survive and we get blamed for its impending demise.







• We are weird.







• When you hear that bird sing for the first time though you'll never forget it. It well, warbles. It has a gorgeous song and warbles at false dawn, especially when the air is real still.







• I hurt someone's feelings at work unintentionally recently. It was the last thing I thought of before I napped when I flexed out early and the first thing I thought of when I awoke the next day.







• A friend is looking for love in all the wrong places and faces. I've tried bluntly talking to him about it, joking, kidding and cajoling him regarding his quest- nothing gets his attention. Sometimes our lessons have to be hard I guess.







• My favorite (and yours) Violent Femmes song.