Marketing: Selling your hosue and Easy-Bake disasters
It seems like it is common knowledge that if you are trying to sell a house, you probably would want to make it look as appealing as possible. It seems that would especially be true if you happened to live in a place that gets a ridiculous amount of snow in the winter, you would […]
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Diving Sticks: scarier than Jarts
On my previous posting about the San Jose Sharks’ new logo, one reader mentioned that the Shark in the logo actually looked more like a “diving stick” than a lawn dart (or Jart as they are more commonly known). The thing that both of these “toys” have in common is that they were pulled from […]
San Jose Sharks: shark attack or plane crash?
In their infinite wisdom, the San Jose Sharks revealed their new logo today, as reported by the Mercury News. As if having teal uniforms wasn’t bad enough, the shark is now wearing some sort of hat. Or maybe it got paint on its head? I’m not sure what it is supposed to […]
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Gray Whales: rebounding here, not in the West
On the west coast of North America, people are used to the annual migration of Gray Whales that are viewed from whale watching boats and places like Pt. Reyes, in Marin County, CA. These whales migrate between Baja Mexico, where they have their young, and Alaska, their summer feeding grounds. Gray whales have returned from […]
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Obvious signage
The photo above was shown next to a Yahoo News story about the severe flooding that is occurring in Britain. I understand the need to put up signs when there is an unseen danger ahead, as in the case of a road sign warning of a sharp curve or an icy bridge. I’m not […]
Sonic Youth @ The Berkeley Community Theater
I almost missed this show because I didn’t even hear about it until the last minute. My friend Jason had an extra ticket, so after a brief stop at the California Academy of Sciences I headed over the Berkeley.
The Berkeley Community Theater is part of Berkeley High School, which makes it an interesting place […]
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Dinosaurs had sex well before they reached full physical maturity
I couldn’t resist the title of this article.
In birds, which are essentially living dinosaurs, sex begins only after peak adult size. On the other hand, in people as well as crocodiles, alligators, lizards and snakes, sexual maturity can begin after the juvenile growth spurt but well before peak adult size.
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Rare and tasty endangered animals & Meerkat ATVs/ child killers
National Geographic is reporting that one of the world’s rarest animals, Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, (scientists have never found one alive) is said to be “very greasy and extremely tasty.” Hunters on the island of New Guinea have seen them on rare occasions, as recently as 2005 according to Wikipedia. The echidna is spiny and lays […]
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UPS lost my diploma & Meerkats: hot or not?
It had been well over a year since finishing graduate school, so I thought it was time to obtain my diploma. UC Berkeley requires that you send them a check for $14 and a printed form via snail mail if you want your diploma delivered. They send it UPS and it’s supposed to take two […]
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Coyote Update (warning: sad)
I guess the title “Two coyotes shot to death in Golden Gate Park” says it all.