Apparently Barnes & Noble's catalog thinks Classics Illustrated's print and ebook lines are completely separate, because *none* of the books I spot-checked link from one edition to the other.
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I hadn't narrowed down my search query enough at Barnes & Noble. I was …
I hadn't narrowed down my search query enough at Barnes & Noble. I was looking for “classics illustrated” and getting a zillion irrelevant results. I was too sleepy to follow it up with “Classics Illustrated Les Miserables” next, which would have turned up both the print and eBook editions, as well as several other cheap eBooks that happen to have illustrations in them.
So you *can* still buy the #ClassicsIllustrated #LesMiserables digitally, at least on Nook.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/classics%20illustrated%20les%20miserables
Microforests LA!
Their guide to planting #microforests in the LA area is live!
https://www.lamicroforests.com/
If I lived somewhere where I had a big enough yard and could choose how to use it, I would be all over this.
Add-on for Firefox that can do web page translation locally
This looks cool: #mozilla has released an add-on for #firefox that can do web page #translation *locally* instead of sending data to the cloud.
Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
The translations add-on is now available in the Firefox Add-On store for installation on Firefox Nightly, Beta and in General Release.
Based on Project Bergamot and implemented in WebAssembly
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it’s one of those things like speech recognition that ideally should have always have been local, but the processing and data just wasn’t there yet
I confused the iNaturalist identification AI with some random snapshots
I confused the #iNaturalist identification #ai with some random snapshots from a trip up into the mountains a few years back.
Normally it’s pretty good at narrowing things down to a family or genus. In this case, I was aiming for scenery and family snapshots at the time, so they weren’t exactly ideal for plant IDs even cropped.
It’s on the level of “A flock of sheep on a hill” for an empty landscape. I wanted to ask it how many giraffes were in the picture!
This hawk had killed a pigeon(?) and brought it to this tree on the corner of a suburban block to eat it
It turns out the crows *had* been trying to scare off a hawk that had killed a pigeon and settled into the tree to eat it. At first I could only see the occasional feather raining down, until I moved to where I could see through a gap in the branches.
The hawk was huge. It’s probably one of the hawks that I see around regularly, but most of the time they’re up in the sky or perched high enough I don’t have any sense of their scale.
#photo #birds #hawk #nature #BirdOfPrey
This was just on the corner of a block in the suburbs. People were still out watching (and the crows hadn’t returned) when I decided to continue on my walk.
Usually I see the red-tailed hawks out by the nearest school field or the greenbelt by the power transmission lines, and I only see the smaller cooper’s hawks along the residential streets.
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This hawk had killed a pigeon(?) and brought it to this tree on the corner of a suburban block to eat it. People were standing out in their front yards watching it. Feathers were dropping as it ate.
It’s probably one of the same hawks I see in the area from time to time, but it looked huge. Though that could just be from it being a lot closer to the ground than I usually see them!
These crows were making a huge racket
As soon as I stepped out the door for a walk this morning, I heard a lot of crows making a lot of noise down the street. They were perched on a telephone pole, flying up and swooping around like they were trying to scare off a hawk.
Of course I walked toward them to see what was going on.
By the time I reached the end of the block, the crows had given up and flown off. But I noticed people were out in their front yards looking up at a tree…
#photo #crow #TelephonePole #birds #BlackAndWhite
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These crows were making a huge racket, some of them taking off, swooping and perching again, trying to scare off a hawk that had caught a pigeon and was eating it in a nearby tree. The hawk didn’t leave. The crows did.
A hummingbird at a local park. Most of the time they don’t stay in one place…
A #hummingbird at a local park. Most of the time they don’t stay in one place long enough for me to even focus on them, even when they perch like this one.
Of course, the reason that it was staying in one spot was that it was grooming, so I had quite a few shots that looked…less impressive.
A wide angle lens on your phone is really helpful for catching sun halos!
It turns out having a wide angle lens on your phone is really helpful for catching sun halos!
#photo #halo #StopSign #sky #silhouette
Of course my 2000th observation posted to iNaturalist would be the Goodfeathers…
Of course my 2000th observation posted to iNaturalist would be the Goodfeathers…
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58559107
covid-adjacent, pokemon, silly
I think Koffing is supposed to look like a magnified grain of dust or pollen…but it looks an awful lot like a coronavirus, too.
I don’t have a clever caption for this one, but thought it was cool that …
I don’t have a clever caption for this one, but thought it was cool that I caught the Croagunk *right there* while trying to decide what to do with the frog statue.
Incidentally, the frog statue is a Pokestop. And so is the historical cabin in the Sneasel picture.
Turtwig has found a new friend
Turtwig has found a new friend.
(I had such a hard time trying to get it to face the right direction, which is why it’s still a little bit off. At least I didn’t need to worry about the real turtle wandering away while I set up the shot.)
Sneasel is disappointed that the museum is closed.
Despite everything else going on, it *is* still spring.
Despite everything else going on, it *is* still #spring.
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Tangents and chords across a sun halo.
Scenes from pandemic shutdown: Shuttered Goodwill
Scenes from pandemic shutdown: Shuttered Goodwill.
To be fair, I seem to remember they were already planning to remodel, so it could just be a case of bad timing.
I’ve heard of burner phones, but burner trucks…?
I’ve heard of burner phones, but burner trucks…?
(seen on the way to work one morning a few weeks ago)
I regret to report that as of last summer, there is just NO PHO KING WAY
On the left: 2013. Pho King Way. On the right: 2019. No Pho King Way.
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2020/02/no-pho-king-way/
Clouds flow over the snow-covered San Gabriel Mountains
Clouds flow over the snow-covered #SanGabrielMountains above #LosAngeles this morning. We've had a decent amount of rain this December, and snow in the mountains, leading to hopes for a wet winter and enough water to store for next summer.
Oh, and skiing for those who are into that sort of thing 😁