A weird thing about visiting a lot of zoos is that they specialize in rare species. This is not a rare species. It’s all over Asia … but it’s the first one I’ve ever seen and I had to go to France to do it. I’ve seen tons (literally) of animals rarer than the yellow throated marten, but this was the coolest animal of the visit – because it was new to me and that doesn’t happen that much anymore.
* For those of you who haven’t seen 40 yet, Fabio Lanzoni was a famous model in the 1980’s*** and 1990’s*** who only looked like this around the (bleached) hair.
** For those of you who haven’t seen 30 yet, airbrushing was an analog**** version of photoshop.
*** For those of you who haven’t seen 20 yet, I am talking about things that happened in the last century.
**** For those of you haven’t seen 10 yet, this means “in those ancient day before computers existed”.
The idea of posting this way is to build a buffer so if you have a tiring or distracting day, a post still goes up. The downside is that it is harder to comment on recent events.
That’s okay. I’m sure nothing of interest happened yesterday.
This orangutan suspects that claims that all bad things will end along with the year 2020 are mistaken but doesn’t want to bother people about it – as bothering humans seldom goes well for orangutans.
When this squirrel said “money is no object”, he was referring to the fact that most societies have moved beyond scarcity tracking, like the gold standard, and is using money to represent more abstract concepts like social obligation, power dynamics, and false inter-cultural valuations.
This squirrel would like to apologize for the misunderstanding.
This monkey doesn’t understand how wearing a mask makes one look weak, when the purpose is to prevent the wearer from destroying civilization through the mere act of breathing.