Christopher Merle

Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, but first I need more coffee.

Author: Christopher Merle (Page 36 of 53)

I made these boots to honor the memory of those who came before.

Select Recent Tweets

May 4, 2009 /

OK. I thought I’d give it a try since I saw shadowhelm posting her tweets on LJ. Though I’m not using the same service. I’m doing copy & paste and I’m not posting all of my tweets for the day, just the ones I feel like.

Gauguin’ cut off Van Gogh’s ear? http://tinyurl.com/dyqepx 10 minutes ago from web

I’m being followed by @EthelTheFrog. We’ll see how long that lasts since frogs are going extinct. about 2 hours ago from web

Joe the Plumber: Republican’s expired jar of Baconnaise or freezer burned Jimmy Dean’s Chocolate Chip Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick? about 3 hours ago from web
Bush-Cheney Regime epitaph: Never has so much been taken from so many by so few #p2 #tcot #jebus Special thanks to Phil Gramm about 7 hours ago from Tweetie

From the time I received the email that @ezMoneyMaker was following me on Twitter until the time I blocked it was 12 seconds. A record. about 7 hours ago from web

@cashewredneck you know how you can tell which Okla senator, Inhofe or Coburn, is more embarrassing? The one that’s talking. #p2 #tcot about 8 hours ago from web in reply to cashewredneck

RT: @MistaBell: Want To Avoid Swine Flu? There’s An App For That Too: http://bit.ly/udL3u about 8 hours ago from web

It’s #StarWarsDay. These aren’t the tweets you are looking for. Move along. about 11 hours ago from Tweetie

ManBirdPig Flu (Updated)

May 3, 2009 /

Just read in the paper this morning that the first cases of The Formerly Known As Swine Flu have been recorded on Tucson, AZ. They’ll announce actual numbers at a press conference later today.

I’m not too concerned.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

Update

Have people gotten dumber? You cannot get swine flu from eating pork. I knew this way back in 1976 when I was in the 6th grade. Flus are named based on their origins either location or animal. Since it’s really a hybrid flu, perhaps they should have called in Mexico City Flu.

I see two upsides for me from this outbreak. I’ll be able to get better travel deals and discounts on bacon.

Nature Sounds

April 28, 2009 /

I got an iPhone for Christmas and one of the cool applications I downloaded was Griffin iTalk. It’s a voice recorder. You can download what you record via an application you install on your computer. I’d intended to use it to record podcast interviews. Well the microphone is pretty darn sensitive and I have on occasion recorded animal sounds in the neighborhood. This is the first one that came out really well. I’m not going to id it till later because I wanted to give you all a chance to see if you can identify what kind of animal it is. I did process it a bit. I amped up the animal sounds and deamped everything else. It’s 42 seconds long.

I’ll give you a hint. The very last noise it makes will help you narrow it down.  Enjoy the animal sound.

I heard it this afternoon about 4 pm. I knew it was coming from the center median. There’s lots of cacti, brush and trees in the median. Anyway, I couldn’t see it. I started recording and walked towards the sound. Eventually I spotted it but then the creature had moved on.

Headlines To Piss You Off

April 27, 2009 /

Where to start? It’s been a while since, I posted a HTPYO. I know some will say it’s a thinly veiled attack on Republicans. I don’t know where anyone would get that idea.

Republicans Gutted Pandemic Preparedness Spending From Stimulus Bill

Dept. Of Bad Timing

Swine Flu outbreak
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN27523217

Republicans Decry Volcano Monitoring
http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/404216_joel25ww.html?source=mypi

Volcano in Alaska erupts
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/apr/25/eruptions-alaskas-redoubt-volcano-spark-lightning-/

Republican Pundits upset DHS report targets right wing extremists
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/conservatives-indict-themselves-shri

Right wing extremist kills two deputies in Florida
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/cartwright_16963___article.html/elizabeth_deputies.html

Right wing extremist kills three cops in Pittsburg
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/emerging-portrait-richard-poplawski-< Oklahoma Man Arrested for Twittering Tea Party Death Threats http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/twitterraid/ Those whacky teabaggers. Won't they ever learn? (dialog NSFW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGNWCwCrUKk The GOP: divorced from reality The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-maher24-2009apr24,0,927819.story

Look, I get it, “real America.” After an eight-year run of controlling the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, this latest election has you feeling like a rejected husband. You’ve come home to find your things out on the front lawn — or at least more things than you usually keep out on the front lawn. You’re not ready to let go, but the country you love is moving on. And now you want to call it a whore and key its car.

That’s what you are, the bitter divorced guy whose country has left him — obsessing over it, haranguing it, blubbering one minute about how much you love it and vowing the next that if you cannot have it, nobody will.

But it’s been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She’s found somebody new. And it’s a black guy.

Snakes Alive!

April 19, 2009 /

I stepped out of house this morning to get the Sunday paper when I saw a snake crossing our driveway. I knew it wasn’t a rattlesnake by the look of the tail, but didn’t know if it was venomous or not. It’s not. I was told it was a bullsnake by someone on Twitter. My Audobon Southwest book did not have it in there so I wasn’t able to ID it. I thought it was going to be like identifying a bird. The pictures and illustrations sometimes don’t really help. There can be a lot of variation within a species.


This is the first snake we’ve seen since moving to Tucson. I’m not going to worry about snakes in the driveway or in the front of the house. I’ll just avoid them and they’ll go away eventually. Though I suppose if I’m expecting visitors I’ll have to warn them. If one gets into the backyard, garage, or–shudder–house then I’ll have to do something. Anyway Melissa did not freak out. I guess it helped there was a screen door and 20 feet separating her from it.

I also took a short video of it so you can see its tail better.

So far I’ve seen rabbits, jackrabbits, quail, lots of other desert birds, chipmunks, ground squirrels, and a bobcat in our neighborhood. I’ve heard but not seen coyotes. I think my foothills experience will be complete when I see javalinas.

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