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Lizard behavior, observed
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 28 at 2:22:27 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x5zeMy computer is next to a window on the north side of our building. About five feet away is the flat roof of the building next-door. Beyond that are a few palm trees and some restaurants and banks, and beyond those is a flank of Mount San Jacinto.
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Among the various forms of denial in which I indulge
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 09 at 1:01:01 am | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3XcRoadkilled coyotes don’t make me nearly as sad as one might expect, given my obvious proclivities. I mean, from time to time I’ll come across one that really gets to me, that makes me rage or weep or wallow in survivor’s guilt.
But not always.
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An old one
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Kitty Physics
By Chris Clarke on 2010 09 29 at 3:18:15 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9FbNosy is a law-abiding kitty. Today he chose the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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Stop the NRA’s assault on condors
By Chris Clarke on 2009 11 10 at 12:22:25 pm | 0 comments
Photo by Just Chaos
[Cut and pasted from the Center for Biological Diversity’s press release]The National Rifle Association is gunning for America’s largest and most endangered bird—the condor.
Calling us “extremists” for trying to stop the
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Settling in
By Chris Clarke on 2009 10 18 at 9:00:00 pm | 7 commentsThough my ex- did get Thistle through the worst of his head tilt it’s still disconcerting. To himself most of all. He’s disoriented, his sense of balance is affected, and it’s clear whatever is causing the head tilt involves some discomfort.
The
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Everyone’s moving to Hollywood these days
By Chris Clarke on 2009 10 17 at 12:47:05 pm | 4 comments
Settling into his new … (continues)
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Deer Medicine
By Chris Clarke on 2009 10 14 at 2:49:30 pm | 7 comments“That is their medicine,” she said. “They offer themselves up.”
She was speaking of hunting, and so I disregarded her words when they came to me, second-hand. Slob hunters are slob hunters, rednecks in the Adirondacks or wannabe-healers in
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Thistle
By Chris Clarke on 2009 10 14 at 2:00:55 pm | 6 commentsWord arrives this morning that he’s feeling better. Thanks to those of you who’ve asked after him, and sent good wishes.
Looking for some email about him just now, I found this old comment I made to someone a few years back in a thread about
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Hang in there, Thistle
By Chris Clarke on 2009 10 09 at 7:41:32 pm | 2 commentsA note comes from the dear ex: the rabbit is very sick and she faces a difficult decision.
Thank you, Thistle, for bringing me joy and occasional bites.
Thank you, Becky, for tending … (continues)
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Yeah, I want his job.
By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 23 at 11:25:29 am | 4 commentsVia my … (continues)
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I can haz roadrunner egg?
By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 18 at 11:19:12 am | 6 comments
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Random corroboration
By Chris Clarke on 2009 05 31 at 12:49:59 pm | 2 commentsYou find some nice things when you set up a Google Alert for the name of your … (continues)
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Chat transcript, 6/26/07
By Chris Clarke on 2009 05 19 at 5:45:08 pm | 7 commentscreekrnningnorth (3:35:43 AM): yes, I do sometimes talk to the air. Why do you ask?
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creekrnningnorth (3:36:32 AM): there is air everywhere: one is thus never alone.
creekrnningnorth (3:37:00 AM): thin air in the fringes of space,
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How I feel after the last week of coding
By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 25 at 12:20:14 am | 1 comment
I was gonna photoshop a keyboard and trackball under his fingers there, but I’m too … (continues)
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Late-Breaking Pleistocene Desert Woodrat News
By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 08 at 7:04:36 am | 1 comment
A woodrat in Utah’s Great Basin is surrounded by toxic juniper leaves, which is much of its diet. Credit: Denise Dearing, University of Utah
… (continues)As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer between 18,700 and 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what
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