Giles ,'Touched'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Actual BBC headline: Great tits cope well with warming
Here's a hint at what the article's about:
"Great tits have eight or nine babies in a brood, and each of them will eat about 70 caterpillars a day.
The chicks hatch and are fully grown within two weeks, so they need something that's really abundant - that's why they synchonise their breeding so hatching co-incides with the emergence of the caterpillars."
eta: Photo caption:
Wytham Woods are home to about 400 breeding pairs of great tits
David, that sounds like my version of hell.
Can any of you hold the pose shown in figure 3?
the tripod one? I could do that much easier than a handstand, I think...but I think it would have to be tilted slightly differently than in the figure, to not fall over.
the tripod one? I could do that much easier than a handstand, I think...but I think it would have to be tilted slightly differently than in the figure, to not fall over.
Isn't a tripod with your head also on the ground? That seems to keep being my problem -- I can't tilt far enough forward to be balanced right without my head hitting the ground. And if I try to hold my head up so that doesn't happen, it messes up my balance.
This week on fun with x-posts:
Is there a French exclamation roughly equivalent to "Oh, what the hell," only a little more polite? Like, something a gentleman would say in front of ladies he respects. The context is that he's agreeing to a somewhat reckless plan.
OMG! SPACE!
Not sure we're quite hitting that 19th century tone there. Though my French is pretty bad, I could be missing some nuance.
David, that sounds like my version of hell.
I think I've worked there in my nightmares. I would die.
I finally got around to saving the first of the Sarah Jane Adventures to tape and discover that tivo had kept the first half and lost the second. Sigh.
Well, the first one isn't that good anyway.
Timelies all!
Other than the cats chasing each other around, its quiet here.
My binging on procedurals (Criminal Minds passed, Cold Case did not) has given me a goal. I want to be an autopsied corpse. Not one who has to do any acting--I just want to get made up and lie there all eviscerated.
I so read that wrong at first.
Headline of the day (*not* from the Onion):
Republicans Vote Against Moms; No Word Yet on Puppies, Kittens
sara, that's the cutest bat skull EVER. Also love the pics of the kids further back in the photostream.
I need to get dressed, but the only pair of pants that fit (staring balefully a them) need to be hemmed by about 5 inches.
GR. ARGH.