Wow. That is a SNAKE. When I read 'baby-snake', that is not the image that popped into my mind.
Mad PROPS, JZ for keeping your cool.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
beekaytee - Feb 07, 2011 9:04:51 am PST #21573 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
sumi - Feb 07, 2011 9:07:27 am PST #21574 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Wow. Difficult to say - I mean, I googled and apparently gopher snakes use their resemblance to rattlers as a defense.
Theodosia - Feb 07, 2011 9:08:01 am PST #21575 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
We need a "What is that snake?" website to answer this sort of question.
Mad props to getting a picture of it!
Cashmere - Feb 07, 2011 9:08:21 am PST #21576 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
JZ, I'm leaning towards gopher snake only for the sake of the shape of the head. Rattlesnakes has the more spade-shaped head of a viper and your dad's photo looks more like the elongated shape of the gopher snake.
Checking the ranges on this site reveals most rattlesnakes' ranges are in Southern Cali, rather than up in the Bay area.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2011 9:08:56 am PST #21577 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We need a "What is that snake?" website to answer this sort of question.
Or a "Rate my snake" site.
JZ - Feb 07, 2011 9:11:39 am PST #21578 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It was my dad who got the picture. He also got a couple more with a regular camera-camera about half an hour later, when the snake was feeling a little more relaxed and had gone back to stretching out and sunning itself on a nice toasty rock. I know there's one reasonably good picture of the head, which would probably be a lot more useful for ID'ing purposes. I should give him a nudge.
Honestly, I think snakes are pretty awesome, and if it's a gopher snake I want it to go its merry way unmolested. But if it was about to venomously bite my Matilda I want the fucker nuked from orbit.
Lee - Feb 07, 2011 9:11:41 am PST #21579 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JZ, is that the position the snake was in when it was rattling? If so, I think it's not a rattler because I *think* the tail has to be pointing up with rattlers.
Gudanov - Feb 07, 2011 9:12:29 am PST #21580 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Or a "Rate my snake" site.
Though you might want to make sure you have safe search on before googling for one.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2011 9:12:46 am PST #21581 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
kd lang is hot. Plus she and I have similar tastes in cars. Once I was on a "classic cars for sale" site and ran across (IIRC) a '63 Mercury Monterey (not her actual car) she was selling. That would have been so cool to buy a car from her.
quester - Feb 07, 2011 9:13:15 am PST #21582 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Normally, I hate this game but you picked a few of my weaknesses this time:
FCM: DB Woodside c, J August Richards f-oh yeah! Jesse L Martin m-my man!
Eric Close f-longtime crush, Seamus Dever c, TJ Thyne m-him or Hodgins, I'm not sure which, but I love this guy!
Neil Patrick Harris c, Gareth David Lloyd m-how could I not! Jospeh Gordon Levitt f-even though it would be total cougardom