Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has been closed to the public so they decided to give Wellington the penguin and a couple of his buddies the run of the place. I think they enjoyed being on the other side of the viewing experience.
Kratu is a dog that has competed multiple times in the agility category at the annual Crufts Dog show held in the UK, where dogs have to maneuver over various hurdles, somewhat like show jumping with horses. Each year he has pleased the crowd with his antics. This year was to be his last year as he is retiring from competitive action and he clearly seems to have decided to really give them a show to remember.
“To hell with competing, I am just going to have fun” seems like a good attitude not just for dogs but for humans as well.
Nice going Kratu!
I am spending some time with my grandsons and the older three-year old has a wooden toy train set just like the one in the video below. I had no idea that it could be set up to do stunts like the ones shown.
I like puzzles that are simple to state and understand. This one is not too difficult.
“There are three boxes. One contains apples. One contains oranges. One contains both apples and oranges.
However, the boxes are mislabeled. One is labeled apples, but contains either oranges or the mix. One is labeled oranges, and contains apples or the mix. And the box labeled Both contains apples or oranges, but not both.
Removing only one piece of fruit from one box, how can you correctly identify all three boxes?”
I like optical illusions but I have to say that my enjoyment has diminished somewhat now that there is always a possibility that it involves computer trickery and not created out of real, physical objects. The illusion below is nice but the fact that it was created by a VFX artist may mean that it is not the real thing.
In a lucky series of events, the drivers of two different cars managed to quickly connect the dots between two different events to reunite a lost dog with its caregiver. Three nice people, one dog, a happy ending. What could be better?
Once again we have an utterly absurd fuss ginned up by Republicans over the fact that speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi had handed out to various people the pens used to sign the articles of impeachment. I had known that at formal signing ceremonies in the US, the pens that are used to sign the documents become important trophies that are given out as rewards. Barack Obama used 22 pens to sign the Affordable Care Act and Lyndon Johnson used 75 to sign the Civil Rights Act. Donald Trump also gave away dozens of pens after signing the trade pact with China, an event that no one will remember after a few weeks. But I wondered how you could have more than one pen and the above linked article explains what happens.
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In the age of email and text messages, some of the nuances that used to be conveyed by the spoken word and visible cues in face-to-face interactions can be lost, and thus there is greater chance of being misunderstood, especially with humor or sarcasm. Emojis seem to promise to fill that niche and have become increasingly popular.
I don’t use emojis, trusting in my ability to use just words to convey my meaning clearly. I also do not use texting abbreviations (‘LOL’ ‘Thx’, ‘TTYL”, and the like), preferring to spell it out. This tends to make my emails and text messages longer than those of others.
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Jaime Hoffman, the athletic director of the liberal arts Occidental College, had a meeting with college’s general counsel, head athletic trainer, head football coach, and president and decided that because of the declining enrollment in their football program that resulted in too few eligible players to fully field a team and the danger that injuries posed to their smaller and more inexperienced players, that they cancel the remaining games of the season
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