I love Twitter. It's like Facebook without all the crap!

Yes! Twitter does not have a "So-and-So thinks you should be friends with this other person!" button, THANK GOD. Because, dear So-and-So, if I wanted to be Facebook friends with that other person, I already would be. There's a REASON I'm not, thanks.

Actually there are more deer now in North America than there were when white folks first arrived - it's all the farmers' crops the deer eat.

And the lack of wolves and lions.

I don't think they're as stupid about carnivores as they are about cars. Headlights are a pretty recent occurance in their evolution as prey.

What Twitter needs is some kind of list/filter function so that when I get horribly behind, I can catch up on just the people I know in real life. (I follow a mix of people I know, celebrities, and news, and when I'm catching up I'd rather just catch up on people.)

So anyway, the deer population is controlled by hunting (if there was no hunting, lots o' deer would starve to death).

But hunting puts bizarre evolutionary pressure on the deer population, as it's the big, healthy deer that hunters try to get, not the small and/or sickly ones that other predators would tend to catch.

But hunting puts bizarre evolutionary pressure on the deer population, as it's the big, healthy deer that hunters try to get, not the small and/or sickly ones that other predators would tend to catch.

This will only make them stupider.

The deer out here are not small. And they are well aware that you are not supposed to shoot at them inside city limits, I am convinced.

The Canadian park that's the sister of Glacier has a bunch of signs warning you that the deer will go after dogs. I wasn't sure what to make of that until I saw one of the deer that I'd been watching as it nibbled leaves stalk a labrador that was on a leash. Menacing.

Did this make anyone else want to tie Teppy down

I have this effect on people.

(Still not on Twitter.)

Must take post-haircut shower. Itchy itchy!

I only just today discovered the awesomeness that is Plants vs Zombies. I mean, I'd heard OF it, but today was the first time I tried it for myself. People, I may never work again.

Two walnuts in a row works well against the pole-vaulting zombies.

stalk a labrador that was on a leash. Menacing.

There's a LOLcat of a Persian in full pursuit of a deer. Something about a Bambi sandwich.

I think the most ::headdesk:: deer population control story I've heard is from Nantucket. Nantucket didn't used to have any deer, but then some fishermen in the thirties found a deer from the mainland who had gotten lost in the water and was swimming near Nantucket, so they took pity on him and brought him onto the island. Then some brilliant people decided that the deer must be lonely, and so they went and got a female deer.

Nantucket now has a major deer problem. A few years ago, they tried to control by declaring a deer hunting week at a time when deer hunting wasn't allowed practically anywhere else in the country. So, deer hunters came in from all over the place to get their chance. Nantucket is a very small island, with really no space at all between the inhabited areas and the uninhabited. The schools ended up having to close for that week, because all these people didn't know their way around the island and kept shooting in places where they shouldn't, and the school and parents decided that it wasn't safe to let the kids outside.