I’ve heard from a few friends whose participation here I’d value that the password limitations in the Coyote Den kept them from taking part. So I’ve opened up comments on posts themselves, and we’ll find another way to incorporate the Den into our daily lives. I’m thinking about asking desert-based activists and other notables to sit in for public “town hall” interviews, for instance. Stay tuned for that, and say hello in this new comment thread if you like.
Update: Here’s the comments feed.
Hello!
Yay! Someone utterly incapable of stooping to “first”!
Howdy, Kat. How’s married life treating you?
Heh, as long as it doesn’t turn into “flame on!” I guess we’ll be okay. ;)
PS: Third!
Howdy, you! Married is good. Life is frustrating, but working itself out. Give the desert a kiss for me, willya?
I’m glad you’re keeping the Den, though! :)
Hiya, comment thread.
Oh, cool! I’ve signed up for the Coyote Den several times, but then could never figure out how to get it to work on my computer.
But I’ve been lurking around these parts for a long time ....
Comment thread says “howdy, Sven.” And hey, do you remember your sciurifaunal studies from out here? Saw a big ol’ ground squirrel up at sunrise rock yesterday, and from what I can tell Cima Dome isn’t quite in the range of Spermophilus variegatus or (even more so) S. mojavensis, while S. tereticaudus isn’t supposed to like it up that high.
(Less-pretentious translation for layfolk: rock squirrel, Mojave and round-tailed ground squirrels respectively.)
and howdy, jo(e)!
right on.
FIRST!!!!
oh wait.
“Spermophilus Variegatus” really really wants to be incorporated into lyrics over a chill beat
FOURTEENTH!!!
Comments good. Possible glitch: When I’m in the comments and click on “home” it doesn’t take me back to faultline.org. Maybe that’s just my computer but thought I would point it out.
boy this sure is fun. glad you opened up comments again. :)
I just tried to favorite nezua’s comment. Heh.
“Spermophilus Variegatus” really really wants to be incorporated into lyrics over a chill beat
“Spermophilus Variegatus” really really wants to be incorporated into lyrics over a chill beat
We’re counting on you, Nez. Do it up.
Cool! Still got the crazy-ass URLs though, I see.
Some of the Spermophilus-related research I’ve seen, though, suggests stories of the “No shit, Sh*rlock” variety. To be fair, examining the world and confirming the obvious is part of what makes science what it is, and every now and then you find out something surprising and unobvious. But imagine the field work that produced the data expressed in this finding:
This is why graduate students make the big money, people.
Chris, thanks for re-enabling commenting… I’ve been lurking since you fired this blog up again in its new form, and though I love the concept of the Den, didn’t quite get around to registering there.
“epics unfurl”—indeed chris: wherever one takes the time to observe…lovely post…here in nyc i’ve notice the plumpness—the fine sleek-furred plumpness, of the squirrels in manhattan in certain parks where tourists feed them; as opposed to their wiry brothers and sisters in the bronx
Comments: great, a bit quicker? Coyote Den was fine too.
I decided to take the registration requirement off of DesertBlog too, in hopes that we’ll get a few more comments over there.
Neat reading, reminds me of the critter that chewed it’s way into the greenhouse just for the hell of it. Thanks for the interesting references also(Smithsonian field guide for one).
Hope you, your family, and wildlife friends have a happy Thanksgiving. I thought you might like to know I enjoyed reading your book about Zeke and I mailed my copy to Wayne C to enjoy. He is still going strong, unfortunately not on email. He still has a phone should you want to contact him. Take care, david
Yay!!
Disclaimer: Mammals R Not Us, but I agree a big ground squirrel on Cima Dome is a puzzler. Round-tails aren’t very big and, as you say, are down in the creosote flats anyway. For sure not a woodrat?
Finally, a nice open space for derailment maximum effect.
S. variegatus on Cima Dome is pretty cool. My crappy Audubon mammal guide doesn’t even have them in California at all, but the American Society of Mammalogists species account map suggests that you might have seen the very westernmost individual.
Woohoo!! The creek flows again!! Seems to have gone underground and moved south east along the faultline for a bit :-)
I’m with Rana on keeping the den, but den like Rob says we need a nice open space for derailment coz hideout if we can get the maximal effect indoors.
and just one day after i convinced myself to register!
hi chris!!
xoxoxo
dp
By the way, those who are still reading with prurient interest should check out the greatest ground squirrel photo of all time.
Sheesh. I only opened up comments 24 hours ago and people are already getting testy.
That is one famous squirrel. People are completely nutty about him.
Heh. As soon as the saw the pic, I knew this is where everyone would go(nad that there is anything wrong with it)
Groan.
Before anyone else jumps onto the pun pile here, I ask you to examine your motivation. Will adding another pun contribute to the discussion? All I ask is a bit of self-scrotiny.
Nth!!!
You are right Chris. I think cajonestly need to examine my motivations.
of course, i meant to write cojonestly
i have heard the People. i shall respond.
beautiful man. real heart, as always.
OK, testicle puns? Kind of a new low, but let’s see…
Nope. Once again I got nuttin’.
heart and testicles. hmmm. quite the mix. bacon and sweetmeats anyone? its a very biological (and meaty) day here at the coyote crossing.
i want eggs.
First one to do a vas deferens pun is sacked.
well maybe we should roll out some rules. after all there’s a vast difference between a pun and a joke.
This is a pun outbreak of epididymic proportions!!
Looks like Nez just barely duct that one.
i’d say ustedes are really testing the staying power of this joke if i weren’t having such a ball.
Seriously, people, why this compulsion to clutter up my blog threads with pun cascades? Is it some crazy religious obligation kinda thing? Because it looks like y’all belong to some sort of a sect to me.
Because it looks like y’all belong to some sort of a sect to me.
Blue Prairie Oyster Cult. Ouch.
You are right again Chris. Upon stepping back and looking from a distance, it does look like a vasectomy. It seems to be so ubiquitous, I didn’t even know I was a member.
Truly, you people are the crème de la cremasters of the punnist’s art.
Thanks, Chris! Like jo(e), I tried to comment a couple of times in the Den, but for some reason, i.e., my own dumbness, never got through. Thanks also for leading me to theriomorph.(hi!) Guess I just can’t get enough of liberal, dog-loving bloggers.