Cancer Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Meanwhile, the birds are realizing the feeders in our back yard are stocked again. I think the flickers figured it out first; this year's crop of young'uns have been hitting the suet hard. But we had a downy woodpecker also a day or two ago, and the towhees have started scooping up the chips the woodpeckers leave behind on the ground. The bushtits have also started swarming the suet. The seed birds have been slower coming; only a few house finches and the nuthatch so far. No chickadees yet. Humorously, one Steller's jay has been coveting the sunflower seeds in it, but he's too big to sit on the perch and eat out of the seed port at the same time, so he's been doing inefficient fly-by and hover moves, which he's not well equipped for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 48 minutes ago, Cancer said: Supposedly there is a pager function at the base station that will make the handsets beep, but the manual is long gone, and it is inobvious how to use that function. My cordless has exactly one button on its base. It does nothing except make the handset emit an annoying beep. Of of course the only reason I have it in the first place is because I haven’t gotten around to cancelling the landline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 I desperately wish we could delete duplicate posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 I desperately wish we could delete duplicate posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Meh. I can live with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Meh. I can live with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Old Man's beard needs trimming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Meh. I can live with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Old Man's several beards needs trimming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 7, 2018 Report Share Posted October 7, 2018 Marcus's hair needs a trimming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 3 hours ago, L. Marcus said: Old Man's several beards needs trimming. Not as badly as his pubic hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 I do not want to know why you make that assertion. Really Do Not Want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 So, how about those Dodgers, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 Stop dodging the question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Cancer said: I do not want to know why you make that assertion. Really Do Not Want. Are you familiar with ZZ Top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 8, 2018 Report Share Posted October 8, 2018 It's the dreads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 Female downy woodpecker at the suet feeder again a bit before dinner. Black-capped chickadees are here, though not in the numbers we'll see in a month or two. Haven't seen any chestnut-backed chickadees yet, which probably means they haven't been brought down from the mountains yet. Juncos and house finches are here, and the rufous-sided towhees showed up over the weekend. I should boil some sugar water and stock the hummingbird feeder, after I put a hole in the central well so rain won't accumulate and the chickadees start drinking out of it. The hummingbirds were seriously offended by that last winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 * Cancer amuses himself by gathering asteroids that nearly hit Earth for his students' asteroid orbit assignment * Terror on a cosmic scale for their homework. Let's get in the spirit of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 Always knew Dr Satan was evil... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 10, 2018 Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 You want to talk about evil? I'll give you evil. One year, my students begged me to give them a multiple choice test instead of the calculation-based tests I normally give. So I did. I wrote a multiple choice test, just for them. The class average was under 50%. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 Were there four alternatives for the choices (five if "none of the above" is in the array), or more? I admit I abandoned multiple choice back in the mid-1990s when I realized that when I wrote them, the longest answer was always the correct one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 11, 2018 Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 "Sell yourself in seconds" ... ummmm ... not exactly the sort of e-commerce that had occurred to me before ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 I've slept 12 of the last 19 hours and I'm still too tired to really think straight. Either I've been beating myself up way more than I should, I have seasonal affective disorder, I'm coming down with something, or I've been working much harder than I am used to. I list those in order of decreasing probability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 On 10/11/2018 at 1:15 PM, Cancer said: "Sell yourself in seconds" ... ummmm ... not exactly the sort of e-commerce that had occurred to me before ... Self-slavery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 14, 2018 Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 “Gig economy”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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