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Thought I would post some recent pictures of my birds. Zoot has just finished his first big molt, and looks all grown up. He also has stopped hating me and biting, which is something he started doing suddenly when the molt started, so that's good. I was a little worried it wasn't just temporary...but he is doing well now, so friendly, his funny little self...and so pretty if i do say so myself!
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Also, has anyone on this community bought the "tidy seed no mess bird feeder"? i received an email about it from windy city, and decided against them at first because of the cost, and because i wasn't sure how well they would work in my cage. I went ahead to buy them anyway eventually, so that i might get a break from vacuuming every six minutes (practically). I just put them up about a week ago, it took the birds a few days to adjust. Wednesday wouldn't even go near it for 3 days, i kept another food dish in the cage in case, but removed it for a couple hours at a time daily, and bated the new feeders with millet and nutriberries. eventually she figured it out, and they seem quite happy with them. Just wondering if other people have used these or are aware of any issues i should be aware of etc. So far my only complaint is that they are kind of hard to fill and to clean.
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Also, has anyone on this community bought the "tidy seed no mess bird feeder"? i received an email about it from windy city, and decided against them at first because of the cost, and because i wasn't sure how well they would work in my cage. I went ahead to buy them anyway eventually, so that i might get a break from vacuuming every six minutes (practically). I just put them up about a week ago, it took the birds a few days to adjust. Wednesday wouldn't even go near it for 3 days, i kept another food dish in the cage in case, but removed it for a couple hours at a time daily, and bated the new feeders with millet and nutriberries. eventually she figured it out, and they seem quite happy with them. Just wondering if other people have used these or are aware of any issues i should be aware of etc. So far my only complaint is that they are kind of hard to fill and to clean.
Mr. B.B. Underwood was at his most bitter, and he couldn't have cared less who canceled advertising and subscriptions. ...Mr. Underwood didn't talk about miscarriages of justice, he was writing so children could understand. Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser.
How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed. --Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, pp. 275-276
"...Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time."
"Dead shot..." echoed Jem.
"That's what I said, Jem Finch. Guess you'll change your tune now. The very idea, didn't you know his nickname was Ol' One Shot when he was a boy? Why, down at the Landing when he was coming up, if he shot fifteen times and hit fourteen doves he'd complain about wasting ammunition."
"He never said anything about that," Jem muttered.
"Never said anything about it, did he?"
"No ma'am."
"Wonder why he never goes huntin' now," I said.
"Maybe I can tell you," said Miss Maudie. "If your father's anything, he's civilized in his heart. Marksmanship's a gift of God, a talent--oh, you have to practice to make it perfect, but shootin's different from playing the piano or the like. I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today."
"Looks like he'd be proud of it," I said.
"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents," said Miss Maudie. --Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, p. 112
I have a request, but first, a macro!
I had it and I cant find it. Does anyone please have it and would you share it with me?
I would really appreciate it...
Never mind! A fan of win sorted me out with it X-D
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i mostly wander around. always have.
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when i was a kid
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and end up looking for four leaf clovers. my mind is more apt
to focus in on the moment
than to think about the future
or the past.
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A book I photographed and designed the cover for recently came out. It's a stunning book of poetry by Michael Simms Click on the pic to see the back, and the full cover unfolded. If you are a poetry lover and interested in ordering the book, drop a note here and I'll pass it directly to the poet.
More from Michael Moorcock on his forthcoming Who novel:
1) I've been watching Dr Who since it began. Haven't liked all the doctors and after Peter Davison stopped watching regularly until the new BBC Wales series.
2) Since the Tom Baker series, a lot of my ideas crept into the stories and so in many ways I'll be writing a story which already echoes my own work. (Possibly he's talking about the White/Black Guardian, Order/Chaos stuff?)
3)I do have to submit it to editors so they can make sure it fits into the canon and this, of course, is understandable. By saying it wasn't a tie-in I did, of course, mean that it would be an original novel, not one which was linked to previous stories.
I share an enthusiasm for the current Dr Who broadcasts with quite a few friends who are 'literary' novelists and I sense in some of the Gallifrey remarks (someone showed him some comments from Gallifrey Base) a suspicion of the 'outsider' which you used to get when someone with a reputation as a non-sf writer would decide to write an sf novel. All I can answer to this is 'wait and see'. I'm certainly not a non-watcher! Neither am I someone who ascribes a kind of religiosity to an enthusiasm. This phenomenon crops up a lot, these days associated with sf/fantasy, LOTR, H.Potter, Twilight and so on. I hate these presumptions of exclusivity either in my own corner of the literary world or elsewhere. Mike Kustow, once director of the Royal Shakespeare Co, described this as 'the anxious ownership syndrome', when faced with his first confrontation with sf fandom in Brighton 1968. He'd found the same sort of expression with Shakespeare fans when someone from 'outside' showed an interest.
I've been asked to write Dr Who scripts or stories almost since the series began, because I was known to enjoy Dr Who. Only recently did the time feel right to me to do one. I'm going to enjoy that, too.
1) I've been watching Dr Who since it began. Haven't liked all the doctors and after Peter Davison stopped watching regularly until the new BBC Wales series.
2) Since the Tom Baker series, a lot of my ideas crept into the stories and so in many ways I'll be writing a story which already echoes my own work. (Possibly he's talking about the White/Black Guardian, Order/Chaos stuff?)
3)I do have to submit it to editors so they can make sure it fits into the canon and this, of course, is understandable. By saying it wasn't a tie-in I did, of course, mean that it would be an original novel, not one which was linked to previous stories.
I share an enthusiasm for the current Dr Who broadcasts with quite a few friends who are 'literary' novelists and I sense in some of the Gallifrey remarks (someone showed him some comments from Gallifrey Base) a suspicion of the 'outsider' which you used to get when someone with a reputation as a non-sf writer would decide to write an sf novel. All I can answer to this is 'wait and see'. I'm certainly not a non-watcher! Neither am I someone who ascribes a kind of religiosity to an enthusiasm. This phenomenon crops up a lot, these days associated with sf/fantasy, LOTR, H.Potter, Twilight and so on. I hate these presumptions of exclusivity either in my own corner of the literary world or elsewhere. Mike Kustow, once director of the Royal Shakespeare Co, described this as 'the anxious ownership syndrome', when faced with his first confrontation with sf fandom in Brighton 1968. He'd found the same sort of expression with Shakespeare fans when someone from 'outside' showed an interest.
I've been asked to write Dr Who scripts or stories almost since the series began, because I was known to enjoy Dr Who. Only recently did the time feel right to me to do one. I'm going to enjoy that, too.
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Found this coming out from breakfast this morning... As if the use of "indivisible" in place of "individual" wasn't bad enough, the random use of quotation marks really drives the point home:
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When watching the Mona Lisa's little runabout on SJA, was I the only person who was wondering: what about the other six? (Was is six? I can't remember exactly how many copies there were...) And also, surely the Doctor and Romana would have noticed traces of alien energy in the paint! :P
I'm fascinated by ideas, and how they change the lives of the people who come up with them. It seems to be an interest that runs in the family; my mother once had a flirtatious correspondence with Cyril Parkinson, a man made famous by the simple observation that work expands to fill the time allocated for its completion.
The other day I came across another such idea, one I hadn't heard before. It's called The Peter Principle, was first described by Dr Laurence Peter in 1969, and states that in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Basically, the principle states that people get rewarded for things they can do well by being promoted to the point at which they're doing something they can't do well. At that point the promotion stops, and there they stay.
There are some corollaries:
1. In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties.
2. Work is carried out by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
3. Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails.
This has mind-boggling ramifications; it could account for a world in which everyone is basically incompetent, because they've all been promoted to "the position of first failure", and left there to keep failing.
As often happens when you encounter a new idea like this, I immediately started applying the Peter Principle to real world situations. I happened to watch a documentary called Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet, which examines how a Mongol navy with superior weaponry and 4500 ships was destroyed while attempting to invade Japan in August 1281, with the loss of 130,500 Mongol soldiers and sailors.
Now, the main reason was that, just as had happened the last time the Mongols attempted to invade Japan, a kamikaze or "divine wind", in the form of a massive typhoon, whipped up and destroyed the invading navy.
But there were other factors. Kublai Khan promoted a general called Arakhan to lead the naval invasion. He'd distinguished himself in great on-land campaigns, but on the sea he was... all at sea. In terms of the Peter Principle, as a nautical commander Arakhan had reached his "position of first failure". Not just because former successes had led to his promotion to a post he was incompetent for, but because geographically Japan was the Mongol Empire's "position of first failure".
For Arakhan, though, "failure was not an option". He couldn't head home, having failed to crack Japan, and report his failure to Kublai Khan. He'd have been killed. So the biggest single maritime loss of life in the history of the world unfolded off the coast of Takashima, produced by a timely typhoon, samurai bravery, poor boat design (in their impatience the Mongols had seized flat-bottomed river boats to supplement their navy; their indentured Chinese boat-builders had also done deliberately shoddy work on the sea boats)... and the Peter Principle.
The other day I came across another such idea, one I hadn't heard before. It's called The Peter Principle, was first described by Dr Laurence Peter in 1969, and states that in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Basically, the principle states that people get rewarded for things they can do well by being promoted to the point at which they're doing something they can't do well. At that point the promotion stops, and there they stay.
There are some corollaries:
1. In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties.
2. Work is carried out by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
3. Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails.
This has mind-boggling ramifications; it could account for a world in which everyone is basically incompetent, because they've all been promoted to "the position of first failure", and left there to keep failing.
As often happens when you encounter a new idea like this, I immediately started applying the Peter Principle to real world situations. I happened to watch a documentary called Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet, which examines how a Mongol navy with superior weaponry and 4500 ships was destroyed while attempting to invade Japan in August 1281, with the loss of 130,500 Mongol soldiers and sailors.
Now, the main reason was that, just as had happened the last time the Mongols attempted to invade Japan, a kamikaze or "divine wind", in the form of a massive typhoon, whipped up and destroyed the invading navy.
But there were other factors. Kublai Khan promoted a general called Arakhan to lead the naval invasion. He'd distinguished himself in great on-land campaigns, but on the sea he was... all at sea. In terms of the Peter Principle, as a nautical commander Arakhan had reached his "position of first failure". Not just because former successes had led to his promotion to a post he was incompetent for, but because geographically Japan was the Mongol Empire's "position of first failure".
For Arakhan, though, "failure was not an option". He couldn't head home, having failed to crack Japan, and report his failure to Kublai Khan. He'd have been killed. So the biggest single maritime loss of life in the history of the world unfolded off the coast of Takashima, produced by a timely typhoon, samurai bravery, poor boat design (in their impatience the Mongols had seized flat-bottomed river boats to supplement their navy; their indentured Chinese boat-builders had also done deliberately shoddy work on the sea boats)... and the Peter Principle.
What are your thoughts about tonight's episode?
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Dear Hinata,
I love it when you climb on my belly and "make bread" on it. However, in case you didn't notice, I'm massively pregnant now. Because of this, my boobs hurt a lot- you're welcome to make bread on my belly, but stay off my boobs if you insist on digging your claws into my skin while you're doing it.
Also, good on you for hissing at my father-in-law. I don't like him either.
Love,
Nicole
I love it when you climb on my belly and "make bread" on it. However, in case you didn't notice, I'm massively pregnant now. Because of this, my boobs hurt a lot- you're welcome to make bread on my belly, but stay off my boobs if you insist on digging your claws into my skin while you're doing it.
Also, good on you for hissing at my father-in-law. I don't like him either.
Love,
Nicole
Dear Abby, Gwim, and Pero,
I thought you would enjoy a treat, so I opened a can of tuna, carefully divided it into 3 bowls, set one down in front of each of you, and then.... each of you ate a tiny bit of it, then walked away. WTF, I thought all cats liked tuna and I know that when I open a can to fix some for me that each of you comes abegging. So, now that I give you some of your own, you all turn up your noses at it? I don't get it!
Also, while I have your attention, I am one person on a single bed, so when all 3 of you want to snuggle, you know that you have to plan where to plop down very carefully. Gwim, this especially goes for you: Pero does NOT appreciate it when you plunk down with your butt right in his face, ok? Pero, it's okay if you sleep in my wheelchair when Gwim is sticking his butt in front of your nose, but please vacate said chair when I get up in the morning.
By the way, I'll leave the bowls with tuna out for you tonight in case one of you wants a late night snack, but the bowls will be picked up when I get up tomorrow. The whole apartment smells like tuna right now!
I loves you all,
Your human who spoils you
I thought you would enjoy a treat, so I opened a can of tuna, carefully divided it into 3 bowls, set one down in front of each of you, and then.... each of you ate a tiny bit of it, then walked away. WTF, I thought all cats liked tuna and I know that when I open a can to fix some for me that each of you comes abegging. So, now that I give you some of your own, you all turn up your noses at it? I don't get it!
Also, while I have your attention, I am one person on a single bed, so when all 3 of you want to snuggle, you know that you have to plan where to plop down very carefully. Gwim, this especially goes for you: Pero does NOT appreciate it when you plunk down with your butt right in his face, ok? Pero, it's okay if you sleep in my wheelchair when Gwim is sticking his butt in front of your nose, but please vacate said chair when I get up in the morning.
By the way, I'll leave the bowls with tuna out for you tonight in case one of you wants a late night snack, but the bowls will be picked up when I get up tomorrow. The whole apartment smells like tuna right now!
I loves you all,
Your human who spoils you
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Ok, for sometime now I have been looking for a decent replica of The Masters ring, circa "the sound of drums" and "last of the time lords"...There was one on ebay but i must admit the look wasnt up to par for me...hopefully no more than $100...im looking into it as a gift for myself :)) ....any sightings let me know...thanks guys
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