I am going home to clean, make lentil tacos and watch Workaholics!
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I truly adore hunningbirds even though @lennyredfinger and i both agree they are the skinny bitches of the bird world
sdzoo:
Hummer by Stinkersmell on Flickr.
Crazy fact: If we had the metabolism of a hummingbird, we would have to consume about 155,000 calories a day.
Fascinating point…
“In the final years of Bill Clinton’s administration, on matters pertaining to peacemaking, we followed our illusions instead of looking at the world the way it was, with predictable results. Throughout much of George W. Bush’s administration, we did the same on matters relating to war, with consequences far more disastrous” - Aaron David Miller
This is an incredibly insightful description of US Foreign Policy under both the Clinton and Bush Presidencies. I wish I had more to say but I must finish reading this article before the boss returns :)
(Source: foreignpolicy.com)
@lennyredfinger could coax these little pussies off the island…he is the cat whisperer
latimes:
Complex effort to rid San Nicolas Island of cats declared a success: The six-agency project cost more than $3 million and entailed 18 months of trapping on the Navy-owned island off Southern California. The cats killed cormorants, gulls and a threatened lizard. Earlier this month, biologists and Navy personnel gathered on the rain-swept island to celebrate their success. There wasn’t a cat in sight.
Biologists brought in dogs, but soon shipped them out: Fido couldn’t find Fluffy because he was too distracted by the island’s hundreds of foxes. And the cats weren’t falling for the scientists’ “felid-attracting phonics” — digitally recorded meows that didn’t work as well as they might in cartoons.
P.S. They didn’t kill the cats!
P.P.S. San Nicolas is otherwise known as the setting of “Island of the Blue Dolphins.”
Photo: Ali Crumpacker, director of the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona, Calif., watches a feral cat that was trapped on San Nicolas Island in 2009. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
@lennyredfinger…blogworthy?
latimes:
A 340-ton boulder is expected to begin its difficult trek Tuesday night from a Riverside County quarry, rolling to a stop 11 days later in a new art exhibit at LACMA.
There, the two-story-high granite will be placed on its new home, resting atop a ramp-like slot in the ground through which visitors will pass, making it appear that the rock levitates above them. It will form the center of artist Michael Heizer’s enormous sculpture “Levitated Mass.”
Photo: The boulder at the Stone Valley quarry in Riverside in 2011. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
I should read this!
latimes:
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”) runs 906 pages long. This new graphic novel by MIT healthcare economist Jonathan Gruber is probably way more entertaining to read.
Fantastic idea.
Image credit: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
@lennyredfinger pop pop!!!! Let’s get our summer vacay booked!
latimes:
Forest Service to drop fees at most national forests: Following a review, the agency will eliminate the unpopular Adventure Pass for most forest areas. In addition, the U.S. 9th Circuit has ruled that the government went too far in charging for access.
Photo: The Angeles National Forest is one of the areas where visitors must currently display an Adventure Pass. Credit: Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
@lennyredfinger we should go to this!!!
latimes:
“BB Forever,” an exhibition of photographs celebrating the life of Brigitte Bardot, is on display at the Hotel Sofitel in Beverly Grove. Admission is free and open to the public.
Photo credit: Copyright Tirage numerique d’apres le tirage orignial de Sam Levin/Mediatheque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, France
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
