But the geology in the background is spectacular in this one. I stumbled across that accidentally, and stared in disbelief for a moment (YouTube had recommended it as similar to some symphonic metal thing, and I was wondering what crack machine intelligence smokes). Then the geology got to me, and there’s just something about that …
Category Archive: bit o’ fun
Apr 02 2013
Unidentified Flying Dinosaur: UFD in a Fruit Tree
Two years ago, around this time, this gentlebird appeared in one of the local ornamental fruit trees. This year, it would have been surrounded by flowers – the trees are all about blooming right now. Global warming must be a thing. They seem to bloom earlier each year. I find this bird rather attractive. Some …
Mar 20 2013
Bodacious Botany: Scarlett o’Hairy
One of the things about doing geology is that it gets you into the habit of staring at the ground. And when you do that, you notice things. Alas, here in the Puget lowland the things usually aren’t geological in nature. But they’re still pretty.
Mar 19 2013
Mystery Flora: A Happy Yellow Spray
Place barely goes to sleep for winter and now it’s up for spring. To be fair, it has been a mild winter even for Seattle, which has winters so milquetoast it panics when two snowflakes stick to the road. Nothing in the Puget Lowlands wastes any time. I found little seedlings happily growing in early …
Mar 16 2013
That Feeling of Tension Released in Victory
So you know those times when you’re sitting there restless for no damn reason, and you’re messing about trying to find something that will hold your attention, and suddenly you remember there was this one song you used to listen to years ago that you really liked, but you couldn’t remember the title? And so …
Mar 15 2013
Fundamentals of Fungi: Would a Witch Really Spread This on Toast?
Possibly not, because it may not be actual witches’ butter. I’d meant to get down to Juanita Bay, where I had my first encounter with witches’ butter, but that didn’t quite happen. Instead, I ended up at that bit of North Creek I haven’t fully explored. I wasn’t expecting any encounters with fabulous fungi. But …
Mar 14 2013
An Amazing Truth for Pi Day
It’s 3-14. That means I get to share math humor with you. Criminy, I’m hungry all of a sudden…
Mar 13 2013
Unidentified Flying Dinosaur: Methinks I Spy a Woodpecker
It ain’t Woody. That’s all I’m sure of. I’ve seen several of these around the North Creek area. They’re never close enough to get a really good view, but with a little zoom they resolve into something that looks like it might be a woodpecker. Certainly, with a beak that size, it should be.
Mar 09 2013
Turtles All the Way Down
There’s this story, you probably know it well. Some say a matron approached Bertrand Russell (or was it another scientist) after some lecture on the solar system. Dead wrong, she told ‘im. It’s a turtle. The world’s flat and carried on the back of a turtle. And what’s the turtle standing on? the gentleman asked.
Mar 06 2013
Cryptopod: The Unseen
Something big and complicated and not volcanic is coming your way tomorrow, my darlings. I’ve been busting me arse on research, while in the midst of adjusting to medication (a story for later), and let’s just say I’m spent. So we’ll make this one short, but very sweet. One of the things I like about …
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