I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
drive by first?
it would appear so
wonder what they are talking about below
I guess I'll go call sheets
Stop!
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Wet here.
Dark here.
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Hot and muggy in this hellhole of a rural village.
I'd rather be in an urban hellhole than a rural one. At least you can find a late night packy in the city.
My semi-urban hellhole is quite
Urban hellholes should be located in the Phoenix area, just to get the full environment.
My first ever homer.
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A bit hot here. We haven't broken 100, so it's only moderately hot.
My first ever homer.
Was it as good for you as it was for me?
I got noisy robins in my 'burban hellhole.
Liberals sail faster.
111 in Mesa and "cooling", per my computer's widget...
Watered the flowers and herb on the urban hellhole fire escape. Don't rate a roof to grill arthropods on.
dt'd
Good evening. The chilled noodle salads have been consumed, and clouds are approaching with the threat of thunderstorms. The parrots had a small treat of cheese and watermelon. My nails are freshly manicured and my hair freshly cut. What have you all been up to today?
Congrats, tralfaz
Dry as all heck here...about 4 inches behind on rain.
Poor LeBron...
Hey, Andy, you can have our surplus 20"
Thank you thank you.
It's Sunday morning in our urban hellhole home away from home. The Tralfaz family just got up.
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(i wuz short-sheeted)
i hope that when i come back you will all be ready to apologize
i am glad that, personally, i was finally able to complete the course 'how to take being told you are an asshole with grace and calmness' 101
but only the first semester
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Andy, we haven't had significant rainfall since May 19th. That is a very long spell for Seattle, especially that early in the year. Usually we don't have a stretch like that until late July into August.
Poor LeBron...
fred |
I'll bet they make a 'funny' commercial out of the video.
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Has sebs been seen since the skull fucking he received?
We might get a little more ppt, depending on which way the thickest part of that offshore band is drifting.
Supreme Commander, the big problem with skullfucking trolls is that there's not much in there to fuck.
Tlazolteotl
Sounds as if you had a v good day.
I took pics of morning glories, admired Gromit's vacay pics, and had an adventure w G/Son
Tralfaz is stunningly attractive for a blog commenter.
same here, in my rural hell hole
you can have our surplus 20"
Sweet! I'll grab the bucket.
That is a very long spell for Seattle, especially that early in the year. Usually we don't have a stretch like that until late July into August.
That's weird. Then I go and read about el Nino that's supposedly coming this winter. I wonder if we'll ever get any precip.
That's wonderful, Hecate. Too hot to do much productive outside, it's supposed to be cooler tomorrow, so after we clean the house and bird cages tomorrow morning, I need to go out and do some serious work in the yard, cleaning up spent daisies and lupines.
But the grapes are growing bigger every day and I have blossoms on my squash plants!
First choice is still reincarnation as a cat, but being reincarnated as one of Tlaz's birdies is getting serious consideration.
We had rain today. Will have more, tomorrow.
Has sebs been seen since the skull fucking he received? - Supreme Commander Thor
Which one?
Has sebs been seen since the skull fucking he received?
No, he's homeschooling his kids about skullfucking and how to be a sexist prick.
bo, my birds are pretty spoiled, and very well fed 
You know their staple food is a corn bread we make full of spinach, edamame, corn, and yams . They like it very much.
Which one?
bo, too much less cheap vin
True. He just lines up for it every day.
Mt. Baker had nearly 100 feet of snow one year.
I got noisy robins in my urban hellhole.
All I got is house sparrows and pigeons, and one really really noisy male cardinal that I have never actually seen.
Looking for a peregrine.
bo, consider also that a cat lives at most ~20 years, a parrot can live 70 or more years.
Gas stations everywhere
Not one drop to fill me
No, he's homeschooling his kids about skullfucking and how to be a sexist prick.
Say, you're pretty attractive for having only one yet-to-be-born kid...
If you're really, really good in this life, you can come back as a Chez H cat.
It's a pretty cushy life.
Beautiful day on Casco Bay. Breezing up to 30, smoked the fleet with some teenaged sailors as crew. Said fuck a lot. It was a good day.
Post-reboot Curly - Jeffraham
Why did you have to reboot him?
Maybe this'll last for a while before a new thread!
Left... BELOW!
I has had all I can stands and I can't stands any more!
End of June, the power supply on my Mac Dual Processor G4 died. It's going to cost me about US$140 or so for a rebuilt and guaranteed replacement.
Since then, I've been using an older Mac with a modest G4 upgrade and OS 9. For whatever reason, I can't get a CD/RW or DVD/RW drive to work in it, or I would have had OS X or a Linux of some kind installed on it by now. OS 9 works fine for email and using the web. However, there are NO browsers that support any manner of killfile under OS 9.
Ordinarily, I would just keep scraping up the odd buck or two until I had enough for the replacement power supply.
However, I must confess that I have had it with these motherfucking trolls on this motherfucking blog.
Therefore, the PayPal begging bowl is out for anyone who feels so inclined to toss a few coins my way. Any surplus funds will be donated to my favorite local charity, the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans.
PayPal ID is: cht@gis.net
Thanks in advance!
Jeffraham, given your circumstances, the only thing I'll have from you is your best wishes for my new power supply. I've been in your position, and you need to take care of yourself and your cats!
Tralfaz is stunningly attractive for a blog commenter.
NTodd,שלו
Just one of my spells.
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bo: Why did you have to reboot him?
He blue-screened.
Damn, what's with these pinfeathers sprouting on my arms?
would you like me to scritch those, bo? I know how itchy they get.
We had rain today. Will have more, tomorrow.
Jeffraham, public option
May not be that long a wait...
well maybe not for you. Don't see any way it's gonna miss me though, assuming it holds together. That one this afternoon went huff-huff-puff all morning then piffered out to not much of anything by the time it arrived here. (90 miles w. of you in case you forgot.)
He blue-screened. - Jeffraham
Eeek! Did you have to refurmat him?
it is saturady night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h?
v=p3uZhh4HpKI
Rain and rain! What is rain?!
Tlaz,
Better wait until I come back on the next time around. I'm rather ancient and dishonorable on this circuit.
it is saturady night
It's what, now?
bo: Eeek! Did you have to refurmat him?
It's what, now?
AndyG
saturdae, nowadie maen
Must boot dinner.
saturdae, nowadie maen
Been a long time since I read Beowulf.
touche
Must boot dinner.
Ate and drank too much?
Koga and Kelele look like this
http://www.theanimalcompany.net/.../
Timneh0019.jpg
Kianga looks like this
ttp://www.petlvr.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/
03/african-grey-parrot-800px-ave_070910_008.jpg
Aziza looks like this
http://www.pionusbreedersassocia...hotos/
dusky.jpg
And Ti'iki looks like this
http://media.photobucket.com/ima...kin4n6/
MGPP.jpg
stake and ail
Aw, shit. I gotta concatenate a bunch of mp3 files from that Platypus CD. Else ya get a completely disconnected 1:22 of of the middle of a huge opus. A Platt Opus, of course.
oops, there is an h missing from the front of the second URL. Sorry
As for why I'm soliciting for donations. I'm poor. So poor, churchmice follow me about and mock my poverty. (little sadistic bastards!)
So, donations greatfully accepted via PayPal.
cht@gis.net
Thanks in advance!
Is it bad that every time I see the name 'David Addington', my blood pressure shoots up 100 points?
That report noted that Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington, personally decided who in Bush's inner circle could even know about the secret program.
/clutches chest
Tlazolteotloops, there is an h missing from the front of the second URL. Sorry
DAMMIT!!!!
why is obama *reluctant* to pursue blatant, obvious bushco crimes and atrocities?
simple- they both work for the same people.
a quick review of the wingerati shows them hunkered down waiting for failure they hope for, and vigorously forgetting everything they ever heard about economics
(betsy's) That's going to be small comfort to Democratic congressmen who have to run in 2010 during what, at best, would be the midst of a slow recovery that hasn't yet been felt among many of the unemployed
(freepers) Now all he can tell us is that "unemployment tends to recover more slowly than other measures of economic activity." Yes, in mismanaged economies. Yes, when the engines of industry are being conducted by the likes of FDR, Jimmy Carter and now Barack Obama.
nutzification
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Toons, from the looks of it all, it's going to be a very, very long time before we see rain.
JP, are you MOCKING me?!
Sallyh, I'm not counting on any rain until about Thanksgiving.
Seeing those names makes me want to bash some skulls in Andy, and I know that isn't healthy either. 
saturdae, nowadie maen
anglolcat-saxon?
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Standard Eastex summer; hot, humid, with a 20% chance of rain till oh, say...Thanksgiving...
Precipitation map of Washington... very cool...
http://content.lib.washington.ed...p-
rainfall.html
Note the rain shadow on the northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula and some nearby islands.
Tlaz,
I had a Grey for almost 30 years. He contracted the virus that struck SoCal about 8 years ago (which I am convinced he picked up at the bird vets) and I still miss him. Unfortunately, I'm too old for another parrot.
Rocket wasn't hand raised, and I got him as an adult, but we made our peace early.
His great joys included singing along with the Star Spangled Banner whenever I had a baseball game on, using my voice to call the dogs into the office where his cage took up half the room, and shrieking every foul word he ever heard me utter when I was on the phone with my mother.
Like I said, I still miss him.
Just got back to my rural hell hole last night. Heard we had rain all week -there's water standing everywhere.
Cool this morning at the softball games (had to wear a jacket), but by 10 o'clock, tank top and shorts. Nice and hot - my favorite kind of softball weather!
Nice the rain got over before today - nothing worse than rain-outs except having to sit in wet and cold to watch softball!
Nice and clear and warm as the sun works its way down the western side of the sky. . .
"when the engines of industry are being conducted by the likes of FDR, Jimmy Carter and now Barack Obama."
The economy does better under Democrats than Republicans. This is indisputable.
I'm sure someone already said this, but Holder would need to appoint a Republican as special prosecutor in order to avoid a complete uproar in the Village. Fitzgerald is probably out because of bad blood in the Plame case. So who else is there?
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it is saturady night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p...h? v=p3uZhh4HpKI
tofubo
Nice - fits my mood!
and vigorously forgetting everything they ever heard about economics
Well, that shouldn't take long...
The entire western sky is the color pink that you see inside sea shells.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 8:53 pm |
We've got your sunset, 1/2 hour later.
So who else is there?
Ken Starr?
nutzification
I've been trying to write about the mythos and how hard it is to change when the mythos comes into conflict with reality. Often violent reactions once the myths are no longer believable, and that's something I fear. There's likely to be more Dr. Tillers before this is over.
Tlaz, we had tstorm downpours late yesterday afternoon, today gorgeous. May rain tonight.
July rain today.
Give up. Go to bed early. Thank me later.
Diane, one thing about greys is how they imitate individual voices. My Congo says most everything in my voice, and yes, she has also picked up some naughty words. She also calls the (long dead) dog in my voice, and imitates the beep of an answering machine that we threw out 15 years ago. and she makes me laugh, and laughs along with me, with my laugh!
I am sorry for your loss. Was it Newcastle? I lost my male Pionus several years back very suddenly, and I still cry when I think about him.
The economy does better under Democrats than Republicans. This is indisputable.
fred
Funny thing is, if you went over to the Freeps and said that, you'd get the same reaction the TrOoLz get here when they go off about tax cuts raising revenue, and what a paradise it all was under Reagan, who never ever raised taxes...
Erin, we could use some rain. Right now it is just damn hot and muggy.
Well, I got my lovely older couple hitched
No processions or recessions, no soloists, no musicians, no second cousin's aunt reading poetry. Just a simple, straightforward service of Holy Matrimony, took 20 minutes and they're as married as they're gonna be.
Why can't they all be this way.
The brevity of my homily was greatly appreciated, as the A/C was not working properly. Everyone wore sensible shoes.
This was a good one.
The economy does better under Democrats than Republicans. This is indisputable.
I'd have to dispute that it is indisputable because the 20% will dispute anything, no matter how much it may be appear to be indisputable to rational people.
But the first half is bang on.
Well done, left rev.!
July rain today.
In July?!?!?!
I am sorry for your loss. Was it Newcastle? I lost my male Pionus several years back very suddenly, and I still cry when I think about him.
Tlazolteotl, parroted
It was indeed Newcastle.
And I know that emotion.
Every time the wild parrots fly by the apartment I smile. Those rackety bastards remind me just how wonderful birds, especially parrots, are.
"Funny thing is, if you went over to the Freeps and said that, you'd get the same reaction the TrOoLz get here"
The difference being... I'd be right.
Again, for your viewing enjoyment, Curly.
A debate can be settled, yet still have people arguing about it. Global warming is a perfect example.
Tlaz,
Pretty birds! I have a cockatiel we named Harvey when he got her. About 5 years into having her, one of my daughter's friends piped up, "Hey! Hey! Your bird laid an egg!" So we renamed her Harvetta!
I don't let her out much any more now that we have the two cats, but she's a sweetie.
okay, Old Bessie, you can die on me, I just need one more day. All files backed up except email and pictures. Deleting old shit now, saving pics to disc by category. Nothing like an important but dying computer to get one organized. (how many of you have 6,000 emails in the in-box?)
Fitzgerald is probably out because of bad blood in the Plame case. So who else is there?
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Tralfaz
Yeah, but it's a different DOJ, and a different Prez. Still, the wingies'd treat him as a far left radical whacko anyway, him being an independent and all, which, to a true believer, is worse than the opposition...
left rev, my son and his bride invited us to an Italian restaurant. The minister sat with them and signed the forms during the appetizer. That was it for the wedding.
Six months later, when it was hotter'n hell, they had a hand-fasting in Renaissance garb. Kids!
I wonder if this is the other shoe.
"The two new ethics complaints filed against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the past week should be ‘a wake-up call,’ the former Republican vice presidential candidate says."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn...all-palin-says/
"A piece of piss" is a peculiar phrase to describe an easy task.
atablarasa, deeply unserious l | 07.11.09 - 9:44 pm
Diane, they are rackety indeed. My new neighbors across the street have been saying they have enjoyed some of the sounds they've been hearing, but when they're all three upset/hungry and gacking (you know that sound greys make when they're upset), it just about drives you nuts
Re UI:
Latest stuff from CA EDD says there's training funds available after the second Fed extension.
EDD = Employment Developement Dept.
bo, with cheap vin
thanks.
If middle-class and poor people do so much better under Democratic presidents than under Republican presidents, why do so many of them vote for Republicans? One popular answer, advanced by Thomas Frank and others, is that they are alienated by Democratic liberalism on cultural issues like abortion, gay marriage and gender roles. This does not appear to be the case. In recent presidential elections, affluent voters, who tend to be liberal on cultural matters, are about twice as likely as middle-class and poor voters to make their decisions on the basis of their cultural concerns.
A better explanation for Republican electoral successes may be that while most voters, rich and poor alike, do vote with their economic interests in mind, they construe those interests in a curiously myopic way. Their choices at the polls are strongly influenced by election-year income growth but only weakly related to economic performance earlier in the president’s term. And while Republicans have presided over dismal income growth for middle-class and poor families in most years, they have, remarkably enough, produced robust growth in election years.
Int Lit, those are not my birds, mind you...
I have some pics (not close up though) at my flickr stream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chemparrot/
(how many of you have 6,000 emails in the in-box?)
ErinPDX |
But for a HDD crash a few years ago, and Yahoo mysteriously losing my acc't once, I would. Still have over 3k, and that's manually deleting non-spam but trivial crap. I keep my email on my machine via POP3)
Hey...Freepers have come up with a new, unclever phrase: Cheney Derangement Syndrome.
Get it? Huh? Cheney?
Cheney Derangement Syndrome
Somehow, I suspect my definition would not match theirs...
mythos comes into conflict with reality
atablarasa
it's quite clear now that they are putting all their money on barack tanking the economy, and this resulting in revenge at the polls for them in 2010
not sure what they will do if this doesn't happen...
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Question for you Gmailers out there; If you access your account via POP3, does your outgoing mail bypass your online "Sent" folder? With Yahoo premium it does, and that bugs the shit out of me...
I need to take some pics of my daylilies and hollyhocks and post them, though, and more bird pics!
Freepers have an uncanny "talent" (led by their god, Rushbo) of mangling the English language.
I'm sure someone already said this, but Holder would need to appoint a Republican as special prosecutor in order to avoid a complete uproar in the Village. Fitzgerald is probably out because of bad blood in the Plame case. So who else is there?
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Tralfaz
dont see how that rules him out. but there are plenty of good, career prosecutors around.
I dont think you have to go GOOPER on this to have credibility. They are going to attack anyone who goes after these criminals.
Nice - fits my mood!
Integral
dun cudda rick-rolled you into a bay city rollers link
People still POP their email?
Tlaz,
Great pics. I enjoy looking at the beautiful things you grow! The family room looks busy! I have a friend with an African Gray named Stella. She's a great bird.
Thanks for the link.
most outgoing mail is still done via POP3
left rev, my son and his bride invited us to an Italian restaurant. The minister sat with them and signed the forms during the appetizer. That was it for the wedding.
We can't do that here-the deep fried cheese curds get everything all greasy.
My best friend was married at the Renn Faire in Dallas-I helped her shanghai a minister from my seminary professors. He thanked me later for the expereince; apparently, he was assigned a personal wench for the wedding feast and they got on swimmingly
dun cudda rick-rolled you into a bay city rollers link
tofubo
Thanks for NOT doing that!
Int Lit, I do need to get more bird pics on the blog or on flickr, but those birds are camera shy! They start acting freaked out when I come close with that metal thing on my face!
We can't do that here-the deep fried cheese curds get everything all greasy.
Truly LOL!
Sexy Rhino.
My best friend was married at the Renn Faire in Dallas-I helped her shanghai a minister from my seminary professors. He thanked me later for the expereince; apparently, he was assigned a personal wench for the wedding feast and they got on swimmingly
left rev., parasitic class
That's just as good a story as the one you presented earlier.
They start acting freaked out when I come close with that metal thing on my face!
Have someone else take them. Then you can be in the picture too!
dun cudda rick-rolled you into a bay city rollers link
tofubo
S
A
T-U-R
D-A-Y
NIGHT!
How do I get assigned a personal wench?
"A piece of piss" is a peculiar phrase to describe an easy task.
MP
To "take the piss" is another one. At least it's loosely related to the American "pissed off". To be "pissed" in Jolly Old is to be drunk. We really came from there, eh?
Jeffraham, both of your boys are so cute!
We had a cockatiel named Wesley whom we rescued from a grade school situation. He was very nervous and prone to sinking his beak into your flesh if you got too careless in his aviary.
He did learn how to mimic the X-Files theme, which was pretty cool.
When we moved and couldn't take him, we offered to give him to the local Family Services offices. They were delighted to accept him and the beautiful cage my husband had built. Just before we moved, we went in to say goodbye to him. There was a BIG sign on his cage door: "MY NAME IS WESLEY. I BITE!!!!!"
We bolted out the door before they could try to return him.
Personal wench??
Is this anything like a personal pizza?
I have two young personal wenches and they think I am there to serve THEM! Teenagers, you know!
Well, that's it. Goin' to bed.
I'll be back in fibe hours, I'm sure... that's about all I can do, at one time.
Have someone else take them. Then you can be in the picture too!
The metal thing would still make them act scared.
I should just record them sometime, like right now, where they are all singing and chirping and talking and being adorable.
S
A
T-U-R
D-A-Y
NIGHT!
I-S
A-L-L
R-I-G-H
T!
For fighting...
i read that out loud Tlaz, and my partner said, with an arch tone:
you have been assigned a personal wench.
How do I get assigned a personal wench?
Tlazolteotl, parroted
As I understand it, they are available in limited quantities to Process Theologians from the Irish Methodist Chruch.
G'night Jeffraham! Sweet short dreams!
OK, time for supper and then some reading (the July Harper's is just as tremendous as the June's. I may have to subscribe).
A reminder: Bonus Critter Blogging is up, this time with some birds.
Reading the analysis above reconfirms Kerry would be president today had bushco not kept the housing bubble inflated through 2004.
Haloscan is teh suck!
anyway, I wonder how differently things would be going now if Kucinich had won the election...
...and shrieking every foul word he ever heard me utter when I was on the phone with my mother.
I'd consider trading my furballs for a bird like that...
Is Darth under arrest yet?
prone to sinking his beak into your flesh if you got too careless in his aviary
My male Pionus had a habit of doing that during the months that he was rather hormonal. Basically, I could not reach my hand into his cage between October and February. I still have two scars showing what would happen when I did.
Presidents can do a lot to manipulate the economy in the short term.
Well, people will be expecting me to speak in acoherent manner about some sort of spiritual stuff tomorrow, so I'd better prepare to hit the hay.
Personal wenches for some; highly intellegent birds for others.
Good night 
i want the m3 back
My Congo, I have to admit, has picked up 'fuck it' somewhere. May have been me, may have been the SO. But of course she likes to say it, because it makes us laugh.
Presidents can do a lot to manipulate the economy in the short term.
True when there's an economy to work with. Not so much at the bottom.
Tuesday afternoon
I'm just beginning to see
Now I'm on my way
I had to live to 58 before I realized that was a haiku?
I dont think you have to go GOOPER on this to have credibility. They are going to attack anyone who goes after these criminals.
peterboy
I agree. And Fitz would be excellent.
But unfortunately, it is a reality that the Villagers are going to largely control the dialogue while the investigation is going on (i.e. GOP talking points 24/7). Appointing a (R) cuts that off at the knees.
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(sings)
"coding, coding,
coding at the caffe med"
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my personal wench demands attention, dinner and a movie. we will do all of these at home as we are not bucks up.
Okay...that Evian baby commercial is kinda funny.
'nite, left rev.
Ireland! Ireland! Together standing tall!
Shoulder to shoulder, we'll answer Ireland's call!
Listening to Celtic Thunder....
most outgoing mail is still done via POP3
Actually, outgoing mail uses SMTP. POP3 is for retrieval.
I'd love to have a parrot, but can't imagine having the time to do one justice. I'm impressed with people who do.
And envious.
People still POP their email?
fred
Everyone I know uses the webmail interface exclusively, and has no idea what POP3 is. Opera checks my inbox on automatic, and has George Carlin shout "There's a letter in your mailbox!".
My Congo, I have to admit, has picked up 'fuck it' somewhere
Tlazolteotl
if my cats were as smart as your parrots, i'd let them drive my car
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Everyone I know uses the webmail interface exclusively, and has no idea what POP3 is. Opera checks my inbox on automatic, and has George Carlin shout "There's a letter in your mailbox!".
I have an Exchange server and do POP things in. Old school, don'tcha know...
Which, incidentally, you can goooooogle "carlinmail.wav", and have George announce your mail for you...
cash money opportunities foshizzle
The [Izzy] Foreign Ministry unveiled a new plan this week: Paying talkbackers to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. A total of 600,000 shekels will be earmarked to the establishment of an “Internet warfare” squad.
We had a parakeet that had a wide vocabulary. One of his favorite things to say was "big tits." My ex thought that was really funny. His cage was in the kitchen, and it go so if anyone called out "Where's Mom (or any other family member)" he would say, "in the kitchen" since that's the answer he always heard. It was a hoot!
Oh, shut up kei and yuri, you anti Semitic stupid fucks.
I still miss him. Unfortunately, I'm too old for another parrot.
Like I said, I still miss him.
Diane C. Barking-Mad
I love the idea of having a pet bird, but am unable to reconcile this with the notion of keeping a winged creature in a cage. There seems to be a difference between animals which can be "domesticated" and those which can't, defining domesticated as those who live in company with humans on a reasonably voluntary basis.
elephants seem kinda borderline in this regard.
Remember when K&Y used to like Jews?
Yeah, me neither...
Actually, outgoing mail uses SMTP. POP3 is for retrieval.
NTodd,שלו
Yeah, I kinda shortcutted that...
I may have told the story before, which I wish I had video of, because it is hard to believe. When Kianga, my Congo, was young, I would ask her "wanna go outside?" to see if she wanted out of her cage, and then go over and open the door and pick her up. The male timneh, who was wild-caught, isn't confined most of the time, because he has a relative dislike for being on the floor, which kept him out of a lot of trouble that the other two were getting into. His cage is on top of hers, so sometimes he would climb on the outside and tease her, though.
Every so often I would come home and she would be sitting on the door of her open cage - either he had fiddled with the latch and let her out, or once or twice I watched her do it from the inside.
One day I was sitting looking at the birds, and he climbed down the outside of her cage towards the latch, looked in at her, and said very clearly, "want out?"
Tlaz
Until I had my first parakeet, I had no idea how much personality birds have. The bigger ones amaze me at their ability to actually reason and use language, not just repeat.
One day I was sitting looking at the birds, and he climbed down the outside of her cage towards the latch, looked in at her, and said very clearly, "want out?"
Tlazolteotl, parroted
When you get the email confirming your reservations at an extremely pleasant Caribbean resort, you'll know who's figured out your computer.
I like the story about the parakeet that learned to imitate the can opener. It would always bring the cat, looking around expectantly, into the kitchen.
Sarah Palin might be attempting to start a right wing third party.
Also.
One day I was sitting looking at the birds, and he climbed down the outside of her cage towards the latch, looked in at her, and said very clearly, "want out?"
Tlazolteotl, parroted
Has anyone ever done a study on parrots, like they have on chimps/bonobos, of whether one which has learned Human-style language (sign in the case of primates) have transmitted this to either their young or other adults never exposed to human teaching?
Int Lit, I wasn't so surprised by parrots as I was when I had a rabbit and a guinea pig. Oh, and chickens have personalities too.
One day I was sitting looking at the birds, and he climbed down the outside of her cage towards the latch, looked in at her, and said very clearly, "want out?"
Tlazolteotl, parroted
smarter than me
run him in the democratic senate primary against spector
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Xan, I don't know if they've ever studied it, by I do see my greys learning words and phrases and other sounds from each other.
Hi again, everyone.
Today's self portrait is up at the homepage (and it's even color coordinated with my banner)!
Ina, I love what you are doing. Makes me want to do art again. Design sucks.
Xan,
There was a lot done with Alex, the African Gray. Here's a couple links:
http://www.123compute.net/dreami...cking/
alex.html
http://www.alexfoundation.org/in...org/
index2.html
It's pretty amazing.
Ina, I love what you are doing. Makes me want to do art again. Design sucks.
mer
Thanks, mer. It does feel good to be drawing again. Get yourself some pastels and join me. An hour a day (or even less), and you'll be making art.
mer, design may suck but those of us who depend upon the likes of you appreciate it very much
I guess they did do a bit of that with Alex after they got the two young birds to work with. He was always correcting them, I think.
Alex "The" African Grey
1976 to 2007
Alex Gif
Known as one of the most famous African Grey parrots in history, Alex pioneered new avenues in avian intelligence. He possessed more than 100 vocal labels for different objects, actions, colors and could identify certain objects by their particular material. He could count object sets up to the total number six and was working on seven and eight. Alex exhibited math skills that were considered advanced in animal intelligence, developing his own “zero-like” concept in addition to being able to infer the connection between written numerals, objects sets, and the vocalization of the number. Alex was learning to read the sounds of various letters and had a concept of phonemes, the sounds that make up words.
Alex’s personality was very evident in his everyday life. He was “in charge” of his home and relished ordering “his” humans to perform various tasks for him. He also acted as a coach and cheerleader to his fellow birds, Wart and Griffin, alternately encouraging or admonishing them during their lessons. His favorite toys were cardboard boxes, key chains and corks.
Purchased from a Chicago pet store in June, 1977, at that time he was 12 to 13 months old. Alex came from humble beginnings. Alex’s accomplishments proved that all African Grey parrots have an intelligence far beyond what was previously thought before his decades-long work with Dr. Pepperberg. Sadly, Alex passed away on September 6, 2007, dying of unknown causes. He was 31 years old.
We miss him dearly.
ErinPDX, it does pay the bills, but I've been doing it so long, there is nothing new under the sun. New job? Oh, pull out design no. 213 from 10 years ago, tweak it, and, there you go.
I do love it, though, when the birds are doing as they are doing right now - whistling and chirping and singing, what I like to call 'jungle sounds.'
Two links of Alex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=R...feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c...h?
v=c4gTR4tkvcM
Now I'll stop . . .
well, i do appreciate it mer
meanwhile, i'm sure red wine would make me quit coughing up a lung, right?
S H E E T S ahead.
meanwhile, i'm sure red wine would make me quit coughing up a lung, right?
codeine
Heya IL (waves)..
I knew of the work with Alex (rip), but both he and the other two worked directly with humans. Perhaps I watched those "After People/Population Zero" series a few too many times and got wondering what animals would do with things they learned from us if we were no longer around.
or else it was too much sigh-fi in my youth. There was a story about humans who knew the species was going to die out soon (plague or something, I forget) and created a cube of utterly indestructable metal inscribed with All Human Wisdom for the benefit of those who came after.
The cube was installed at the edge of a beach somewhere, and one night one of the last people was out gazing at it in the moonlight. An otter came out of the sea and waddled up to the cube, stood up and looked at the inscription "E=MC2." It reached out with a claw, and on the indestructable metal, inscribed the word "nonsense!" and waddled back into the sea.
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