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10 June 2009

Seen anything interesting today? →[More:]

On my lunch break in the university arboretum today, I saw:

-- A whole litter of baby ground squirrels. (They really do exist! And they are just as cute as you'd imagine! And busy!)
-- A jackrabbit
-- A jackrabbit leg that had been separated from its previous owner and left in the middle of the path
-- A dead and dessicated baby scrub jay
-- A dead and decapitated baby crow. (Its head didn't go far; it was right next to the rest of the bird.)
-- And I learned that there's a whole bunch of trees that are members of the pea family. Who knew?

What did you see?

post by: mudpuppie at: 15:08 | 22 comments

Me? I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.
More interestingly, I have been awed by the wide variety of doodads (you handy folk would refer to them as 'tools', I believe) that the contractors bring into our house to install/remove/bury/rewire things. Many things in my house today fall into the 'what the hell does THAT do?!" category.

posted by msali 10 June | 15:16

I've seen way too many infant birds all dead on the ground this week. I know it happens pretty frequently, but that really, really bums me out.

posted by SpiffyRob 10 June | 15:18

Just some questionable fashion choices. And a revolving door with brass cougar? lioness? heads on the frame, above the push bar. I've been through that door dozens of times and never noticed them before.

posted by crush-onastick 10 June | 15:26

Nothing, but the day is still young, and I'm leaving the house in 15 minutes.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 June | 15:43

It's been freakishly rainy in Salt Lake City this week. Yesterday, driving home on I-80 East, there was the hugest frickin' rainbow I've ever seen - bright and solid all through its span.

Almost as if God was trying to send the homophobes who run this place a message, ya know?

posted by Joe Beese 10 June | 15:43

This site.

I know it's not much, but I've slept most of the day due to a bad headache.

posted by deborah 10 June | 15:46

It's in the mid-60s in Boston and the locals are wearing jackets, while I who lived in Las Vegas, southern California and South Carolina for the last 30 years was in short sleeves.

posted by Ardiril 10 June | 16:13

my friend driving with a box of razor blades in the front seat and her daughter in the back of her car. They were, she explained, to scrape the stickers her daughter placed all over the back drivers side window off. Her daughter was, at the time, surreptitiously applying several more to the back passenger side window.

posted by kellydamnit 10 June | 16:20

posted by danf 10 June | 16:20

-- A jackrabbit leg that had been separated from its previous owner and left in the middle of the path
-- A dead and dessicated baby scrub jay
-- A dead and decapitated baby crow. (Its head didn't go far; it was right next to the rest of the bird.)

I was wondering where I'd dropped those.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 10 June | 16:37

-- A jackrabbit leg that had been separated from its previous owner and left in the middle of the path

So is that the lucky foot?

posted by doctor_negative 10 June | 16:39

I'm with crush-onastick: pretty much just bad fashion choices. And a poor, unfortunate snapping turtle that had been smooshed in the center of the road. I don't know how whoever hit it couldn't see it - it was bigger than a serving platter!

posted by redvixen 10 June | 16:45

a job listing for running a domestic abuse shelter

a job listing for being the Director of an AIDS outreach clinic

posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 June | 16:46

not today, but a few days ago I saw a really cool hummingbird moth.

today I got to see a guy in training turn the water on when it was supposed to be off. the kitchen under construction was sprayed liberally. plus, the smoke alarm went off. twice.

posted by chewatadistance 10 June | 18:36

- a young deer running across the road
- a dragonfly with a broken wing (okay, that was yesterday, but I'm still sad)
- a kid on a razor scooter (they still make those?!)

posted by desjardins 10 June | 19:23

...a man get into the tiniest of tiny crawl spaces to check out a house for structural integrity. The house is sound and needs no repairs.
...a hydrangea bush overflowing with blue snowballs.
...my backyard. I close Monday in theory. In reality it might be a week later or so.

posted by Stewriffic 10 June | 19:28

Security guards with conspicuously-displayed assault weapons. Not that I haven't seen it before, but it's been a while.

posted by mrmoonpie 10 June | 20:03

Back from class. Still didn't see anything interesting. Oh well, not every day can be a winner.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 June | 20:11

They opened a 'Jersey Shore Store' across from my workplace. Over the past couple of weeks they've had a dude on stilts in an afro, a cotton candy stand and salsa dancers in front of the store handing out leaflets about Atlantic City casinos. Today they had two people dressed as bugs Bunny and a guy disuised as Michael Jackson (or maybe it was Jacko, times are tough). Why this should make me want to go to Jersey eludes me, but perhaps Bruce Springsteen and Tony Soprano were unavailable. (No, I am not kidding).

posted by jonmc 10 June | 21:01

I also saw a guy who looked to be under the age of thirty leabing against a No Parking sign on 12th street, reading a book and smoking a fucking pipe. Wikipedia called, dude, they need a photo for their 'pretentious ass,' entry.

posted by jonmc 10 June | 21:17

Still no.

posted by danf 10 June | 22:16

In the cafe I am working from, I currently see 13 macs and 2 pcs. On the projection screen is some 60s musical with funny dresses.

posted by rmless2 11 June | 15:05

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