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Earth Day 2023: Water What We Want to Grow
Happy Earth Day! Yesterday, Sena worked pretty hard out in the garden spaces. She has planted ten river birch trees. I did my usual spring lawn edging, which followed the first mow of the season a couple of days before by the lawn mowing service. The vinca is coming up in the garden circle in…
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Show and Tell: Our New Stuff
We got a few new items lately. One of them is an AIKE Touch-Free Automatic Soap Dispenser. It’s rechargeable and has 5 settings for how much soap to dispense. The two setting is plenty good, especially for a sudsy dishwashing liquid like Dawn. I don’t think AIKE is an acronym. I looked up AIKE and…
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Tom Turkey Flirts and Gets Rejected
Yesterday morning we saw a big wild tom turkey decked out in all his feathered glory strut his stuff in front of a likely hen. He was regal. He was graceful. He was proud. He was rejected. I read a little bit on the web about what happens when the tom scores. The tom and…
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Thoughts on Gullibility and Artificial Intelligence
I watched an episode of Mysteries at the Museum the other night and attributed a clever prank that fooled thousands of people to a comedian named Buck Henry who persuaded thousands of people into believing that naked animals were destroying the morality of Americans. The show’s host rightly claimed that Buck Henry posed as a…
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Sena The Flashy Juggler!
Sena is a flashy juggler now, OK! She is now able to do the 3-ball throw and catch (for the cascade eventually), and in my Learn to Juggle manual, that means she is now juggling. She counts the throws, pays attention to the juggler’s pane of glass (the juggle space) and just generally has a…
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Tufted Titmouse Playing Peekaboo
Once in a while when I’m filming wildlife, I get an odd feeling that the animal somehow knows it’s being watched. It looks up and seemingly right at the camera. I got that feeling while making a short video of a Tufted Titmouse the other day. It seemed to stare at me while I filmed…
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Why Sena’s Juggling Balls Are Resting
Sena’s juggling balls have been silent lately, meaning I’ve not been hearing them hit the floor. She is pretty busy doing other things, like gardening. But I’m pretty sure another reason is dropping the balls. She and I are probably at about the same learning stage in juggling. She’s trying to get past the hurdles…
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Ban Siphoning Ozone
I don’t know much about roundabouts, auto emissions, and the ozone layers, but evidently, they’re connected. Sena and I were talking about the roundabouts in Iowa City and Coralville. The definition of them and the instructions about how to drive in and out of them is simple although some drivers can get confused about the…
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Ugly Juggling Shower Slow Practice is Still Progress
I’m still practicing the shower juggling pattern. I’ve got an ugly presentation with claw-grabbing, flattening the half shower fake jobs, and uneven throw spacing. But I’m not quitting yet. I’m trying to follow the JuggleMan’s example. I didn’t get a breakthrough until yesterday when I tried my black and gold Hawkeye juggling balls. I guess…
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Sena Wants AI Dislodged
Well, the last couple of days have been entertaining with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots, at least for a while, to me. However, my wife, Sena wants AI dislodged. I thought I disabled it, but it just keeps popping up. Maybe the only way to protect ourselves from AI is with tin foil hats. On…
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