I like random stuff...

[Chew Toy McCoy]

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

 

[JayMysteri0]

Remember despite anything politically we had/have a pandemic, ran out names for storms, murder hornets, and firenadoes among other things.

I don't want to know if things can get more weird

 

[lizkat]

Food for children's book authors? The 75-foot Christmas tree destined for Rockefeller Center this year came from the Oneonta area not far from here. Trussed up like a turkey before being cut and lowered by a crane onto a flatbed for hauling to NYC, it had a stowaway saw-whet owl discovered at destination. They are one of the smallest species of owl in the USA - fully grown it's 2.5oz (70 grams).

It's been cared for up in Saugerties at a wildlife rehab center and will be released there Saturday since no need to take it back upstate, they are nomadic except when breeding. Totally cute little guy... they X-rayed it, no broken bones so just fed and watered it and will make a "soft release" of it to a platform with a few mice on it on Saturday, in case his first night out on his own doesn't prove good hunting.

Tiny owl found hiding in the Rockefeller Christmas tree isn't going home. Here's why.

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1329819239721611268/

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1329903298116161536/

 

[JayMysteri0]

Yes, please
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1332363055854981123/

 

[JayMysteri0]

 

[lizkat]

Sure this scenario has unfolded during the coronavirus in other than avian species..

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1332737030237741056/

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1332815584183144449/

 

[Yoused]

Remember despite anything politically we had/have a pandemic, ran out names for storms, murder hornets, and firenadoes among other things.

I don't want to know if things can get more weird

Well, it could be worse ...

 

[JayMysteri0]

 

[Alli]

That was amazing! It also proved that through the years I have read and watched way too much science fiction, and only know the names of video games.

 

[SuperMatt]

That was amazing! It also proved that through the years I have read and watched way too much science fiction, and only know the names of video games.

Watching it was also a reminder that these large ships are fictional - the sizes of some of them are quite hilarious.

 

[Yoused]

Well, size is one thing, but the whole bit about scrith (the ringworld material) stops 40% of neutrinos was just off the charts.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Spaceball I was my favorite. They really went deep on this one.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

 

[Yoused]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5464054/this-new-york-woman-built-her-own-rotary-cellphone-1.5464235

She had no interest in texting or finding six coffeeshops nearby, she just wanted a simple phone for talking, that she would not end up staring at.

 

[lizkat]

And then there's folks who just want a couple barns raised.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1333572457463042049/