Today is the work craft fair. I have had a table the prior two years and sold maybe 5 ornaments total. I didn't participate this year and I got an e-mail from someone saying they missed my table and had been hoping to buy some ornaments. Sigh.

'suela, can you lose your phone?

EVERY machine in the world that puts print on page(okay, just my world) is broken.

I have finals next week. I don't have a final printed for my 9th grade nor for 5 of my other 6 classes.

Filled with hate for the printers and copies.

Now, when you mix birds of the same "species" but from different flyways, they don't have much reproductive success. But it is not because of anatomical differences or genetic differences. There is nothing biological keeping them apart.

It is because the female birds judge quality of the males by their singing. When they encounter a male from a different flyway, he doesn't sound "right" and is rejected as defective. They can't tell the difference between a biological defect and cultural variation in musical taste.

That's amazing.

The sexually transmitted crazy mouth in yesterday's column was amazeballs.

Seriously.

I didn't participate this year and I got an e-mail from someone saying they missed my table and had been hoping to buy some ornaments. Sigh.

Can you make a side deal with that person?

Our work craft fair was today, too!

Emeline is awesome. What a great thing to do.

Consuela, can you cut your mom off at the pass, and simply hang up sooner? Or tell her, "I can't listen if you're screaming," and then hang up? I know it's cruel in its own way, and not likely to change her behavior, but it doesn't mean you should have to listen to it endlessly. Or maybe only take calls from the facility itself, and not your dad for a little while?

I'm so sorry about your job, too. So shitty.

It is because the female birds judge quality of the males by their singing. When they encounter a male from a different flyway, he doesn't sound "right" and is rejected as defective. They can't tell the difference between a biological defect and cultural variation in musical taste.

In other words, RACIST BIRDS.

Or ethnic birds, if you will. How fascinating, I always thought species was a well-defined and static designation. Which explains where all the species keep coming from if they're all variants. I always wondered why Canis Familiaris came in so many flavors but were considered one species. The interbreeding comes with assistance, and the bird variants don't have humans going "One from column A and One from column B--I'd really like curly ears on this one."

It is because the female birds judge quality of the males by their singing. When they encounter a male from a different flyway, he doesn't sound "right" and is rejected as defective. They can't tell the difference between a biological defect and cultural variation in musical taste

You never asked if they think it's a defect or taste, did you? You only asked if they wanted to mate.

I dunno. It sounds like people.

On the flip side, I'm being told elsewhere that not only are the lions not a new species, there isn't even as much variation between them and the other east African lions to be deemed a different subspecies, among those kids who are insufficiently cool to have disregarded the concept.

I can't lie--I'm hella curious about the idea of lions that are a different species from the panthera leo lions.

I worked myself up so much over the off-hand remark thing that I was crying at work. I DO NOT CRY AT WORK. Fucker. ANyway, I think I got in front of it. I remembered that another boss, but not the big boss was also standing right there so I went to him with my concern that something I said as a ha ha comment was being talked about to people outside of our department as an inappropriate thing to say. ANd I asked his advice and we talked through various possibilities and he was kinda shocked that this might be a "thing" and then he apologized that I was having to even worry about it.

Then a vendor just brought me a Thank you gift for being a good customer (pumpkin spice cake) and I am feeling better.

The End!

Well, it seems the people that did the research don't think it's a new species, and haven't said it's a new subspecies either, so that's all analysis/discussion after the report: [link]