Avian encounter

While out walking, I was overtaken and passed by a robin hopping along the sidewalk. I thought maybe it was trying to lure me away from a nest but it ignored me, kept hopping at speed down Charles and then hung a right towards King.

I walk faster than most people but this thing seemed to be half roadrunner.

A poll

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A question inspired in part by Canada's Worst Handyman

Yeah, yeah, I've totally failed to keep reviewing that show. Oh, well.

Aside from the floor, how many surfaces in your average dwelling or office do you think would actually support the weight of an adult human-sized wall walker? And on a related note, has Spiderman ever got accoustic tiling stuck to his hands?

That kind of day

In retrieving a stray eyelash from my right eye, I somehow managed to introduce two more stray eyelashes into that eye.

Emily Lakdawalla's What's up in the solar system in June 2011

From the Planetary Society Blog:

Time again for my monthly look at what's going on with the robots exploring the solar system! It'll be a busy month for Cassini, with lots of cool icy moon observations: it'll spend several days looking at Iapetus, and will pass very close to Helene mid-month before doing some RADAR work on a Titan flyby. Opportunity just seems to get faster every month -- if she keeps up her pace, she'll be at the rim of Endeavour crater by the end of the summer. And Dawn is still getting closer to Vesta, though I have to say that my enthusiasm for its approach to this new world has cooled a bit since they haven't released any images since their first view of Vesta early last month

Blame a subthread of Jo Walton's Hugo posts

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Blame a subthread of Jo Walton's Hugo posts

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