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What is this insect? UPDATE – ANSWERED Ladybug Larva
I just saw this little guy (about 8 mm long) on the front porch railing. What is it?I didn't move while I was looking at it (other than to kind of hump up and down).UPDATE 7/13/2019: The Tweeters have answered!It‘s the larva of a ladybug. 😀— An Oak Tree (@oak_writer) July 13, 2019So there you …
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“Measure twice, cut once…”
I can't make this shit up. A couple of weeks ago we had a termite inspection, but this has nothing to do with termites. It seems the inspector was a refugee from a Three Stooges sketch. Somehow he managed to jam his ladder into the attic scuttle hatch and door. He had to cut the …
Can Kids These Days Do Arithmetic?
Calculator clipart via Magical Educator Can kids these days do basic math? Granted the anecdote I'm about to tell happened about 25 years ago but have things gotten any better? Sometime in the early 1990s I went to a local drug store (Eckerd, RIP) to purchase stuff. One item I picked up was marked "3 …
RIP, My Jeep Travel Bug
The last pic of My Jeep Travel Bug After nearly nine years of faithful service, I am going to retire My Jeep Travel Bug. If you want to virtually "discover" it the travel bug info is in in the second picture here. All you need to know to "discover" My Jeep Tavel Bug. But never …
MediaWiki Installation on Raspberry Pi
Success! If you ask me why I would want to install MediaWiki on a Raspberry Pi I'll give you the same answer George Mallory gave when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest: Because it's there. Which is just another way of saying because I want to. Anyway, I installed MediaWiki on a Raspberry …
The Halloween Contest from Hell
So, this happened. This year the organization I work in decided to have a Halloween office door decorating contest. The workers in one office quickly had their door decorated with store-bought signs ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter!" etc.), cardboard skeletons, and the like the week before Halloween. I guess they figured they had the …
There was a Caterpillar Crawling…
He's a cute little guy So last week (Tuesday, June 25) I saw this little guy crawling along on my front steps. I thought he looked interesting and took this pic but didn't think any more about it. Little did I know what this inscrutable insect had planned... A few days later I noticed the …
Wrong On So Many Levels: Ceto’s New Friends
Ceto looks pretty Grey to me. This is an expanded and updated version of my original review of Leah Haley's children's book Ceto's New Friends. You can read the original on Amazon.com. A children's book about alien abductions is wrong on every level you can imagine. Leah Haley is a former self described alien abductee, …
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Lobster Sushi! Lobster sushi?
This is not the lobster you're looking for.Photo credit kevinEats.com Used with permission. So. Way back in the fast and loose '90s when I was living in Hotlanta I frequently ate at a Japanese restaurant called Sakana-Ya (RIP). Sakana-Ya had great sushi but I never tried their lobster sushi, mainly because whenever I saw it …
