Happy Colobus Day everyone.
It’s worth celebrating the colobus because, at no point in their history did they subjugate, murder, maim, and torture others of their species, just to get more a shiny metal that they didn’t even make things out of.
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.
Crocodiles have simple brains. The one only believes two things:
This vulture has two questions:
1) Who would you kill in order to have a party?
2) Why would you want to party with that set of people?
Actually, he doesn’t care about #2, but he would like the addresses of all your friends.
This skink suggests that, given the statue removal concerns about history, just knock the heads and arms off every statue.
Then they’d look very historical.
This caiman takes issue with the phrase “American Experiment”. Experiments have a hypothesis, a testing plan, and a control group.
This is an “American Dithering with Explosions in.”
She has since shifted from notebooks to voice recording. Seems to work a bit better.
First time touching a jelly.
This photo was taken last year, before everything in the world became covered with a randomly-deadly virus.
Why can’t we ever discover a novel virus that grants long life, critical thinking, or kindness?
I also like waterfalls. Expect a lot of photos like this, too.
There are, of course, goblins hiding behind every fall, waiting for someone to venture just a bit too close.
I like photos of people looking out over the water.
Since I’ll be doing local traveling with people to lakes this summer, expect a lot more like this.
If you think it’s boring, try to spot the lake monsters under the waves.
This is not Iona’s Beach. This is a ropes course. You can tell the difference because there are ropes here, not rocks.
Though, really, a rocks course would be rather more challenging.
The water sure is pretty.
Pretty damn cold, that is. I have been informed that it is so cold as to be unswimmable. I have always had my cameras with me, so I have not tested the claim personally.
Perhaps this summer when the temperature hovers in the 90’s.
When visiting Iona’s Beach, you have to make your sand castles in a different way.
This is a beach on the North Shore that, unlike every other beach I have seen, is entirely covered in large round rocks of similar colour and size. It is absolutely amazing … though perhaps not as comfortable to rest on as beaches where the grains of sand are somewhat smaller.
I do not know who Iona is/was.
While red pandas appreciate self-referential humor they do not think this caption is funny.
Crane operators hang flags at the top to get a decent sense of wind speed and direction. Not all cranes need them, though.
This horse assures you that stripes are really quite fashionable, that everyone is wearing them now, and would really appreciate it if you could give him a ride to the city and away from the vicinity of the prison.
It is erroneous to say “science doesn’t support re-opening this early”. Science simply suggests that opening this early will cause a large number of otherwise unnecessary* deaths and a likely shortened and more painful lifespan for some of the survivors.
Politically, this needs to be balanced against other critical factors, like the availability of haircuts** and stock market indices. So it’s really a heads vs tails sort of thing.
* Don’t get me started on the concept of “necessary deaths”.
Gibbon reviewing the federal pandemic response plans.
(This photo can be used at any point in 2020.)