Syrphini
It seems on-brand for the missing package to be a bag of flour.
Don’t know if it was delivered somewhere else or if it walked away after drop-off, but it seems on-brand for the missing package to be a bag of flour.
Ah, it’s one of those UPS-to-post-office-to-destination shipments. It *was* delivered today…to the post office.
covid-adjacent, hiking trail rules
Reading up on the status of various hiking trails in the area. Specifics vary depending on whether they’re run by city, county, state, or private orgs. Some places are choosing to only open some of their trails, or limit parking, or make some trails one-way, or require reservations.
They all agree on the basics, though:
– 6 foot distance
– face coverings
– no big groups
bilingual pun
I want to start a coffee shop called Moss Cafe, with the slogan: When you want more coffee, you want Moss Cafe.
Palm under Fence
Yep.
And in totally unrelated news, why the hell does a single game controller cost $60?????
And in totally unrelated news, why the hell does a single game controller cost $60?????
We have reached the “save your allowance” age.
We have reached the “save your allowance” age.
Me (describing a Java library): it’s like a plate of spaghetti – or rather a stack of plates…
Me (describing a Java library): it’s like a plate of spaghetti
or rather a stack of plates of spaghetti
with some of the noodles quantumly entangled
so that you pick up a noodle from one plate and it moves a noodle on another plate
Coworker: hahaha and pretty soon your eating a burrito!
javascript/safari/venting
Argh… I have encountered a scenario in which a page evaluates an async script downloaded over the network *before* it evaluates the cached synchronous script that appears earlier in the DOM.
WTF, Safari?
Jacaranda tree in bloom.
Apple/Safari/accessibility gripes
Safari doesn’t let you tab to radio buttons or checkboxes…because of an OS setting!?!?
WHY would this be a default?
For that matter, why selectively turn off tabbing to them at all?
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2014/10/03/link-tabbing-firefox-osx.html
They’ve finally changed it in Catalina (which I don’t have on my work system), but it’s apparently been a thing since at least the early 2000s.
It’s a perfect example of an “unbreak my app” setting.
Probably some ancient UI guideline from 1986 when the idea that someone might want to use the keyboard for something in the UI would garner a “why don’t you just use DOS, loser?” reaction
kids, food, random gripe
Why does this kid always insist on eating the shelf-stable stuff first and leaving the perishables for later?
Red-tailed Hawk (two flying)
I’d been wondering if all the red-tailed hawks I’ve been seeing in this area were the same one – it turns out there are at least two of them.
I did manage to catch this shot, which was at least (a) identifiable and (b) amusing.
Though I did manage to catch this shot, which was at least (a) identifiable and (b) amusing.
The barley is taller than the starlings.
I spotted a bunch of starlings darting around through the wild barley in the open space near an odd street intersection.
Problem: The barley is taller than the starlings. Most of my photos look kind of like this.
#fotofails #birds #nature #barley
A monarch butterfly in flight
A #monarch butterfly in flight. I’ve been seeing one or two each time I go for a walk in the neighborhood, but mostly they’re flying around too much for me to get a decent photo. This one decided to stick around this one bush for a while.
On Photog.Social
On iNaturalist
About a week later…
Someone on Flickr invited this photo to a UFO/paranormal/unexplained phenomena group. 😕
Maybe they meant to invite it to something else they manage?
Or are there butterfly UFO stories out there that I’m missing?
Red-Tailed Hawk (in palm tree)
I saw 4 or 5 crows repeatedly dive-bombing the top of this palm tree, cawing loudly, and heard the screech of a hawk at one point. It wasn’t until after the crows had given up that I made it to the other side where I could see this hawk just holding still. It flew off a little bit later.
Red-Tailed Hawk Feather
This was out in an open space where I’ve mostly seen small birds like sparrows, plus crows, seagulls, pigeons/doves and the occasional red-tailed hawk.