Monday, September 22, 2008
Why I am fascinated by lemurs
http://lemur.duke.edu/animals/slowloris/feeding.jpg
The caption under the photo reads:
A slow loris munches on a banana while suspended upside down.
P.S. About Thing #13
~ Ms. Mundy the Mildly Miffed ~
P.S. I promise to go back to the order of The 23 Things and get busy with Thing #6, "Flickr Fun and Mashups"...someday soon... Speaking of "mashups," here is a blurb from The Circulator Archives about how the word itself has evolved from musical applications to meaning a Web application hybrid.
Lemur Lover Leaps to Thing #13
Some of My Delicious Bookmarks
- Best Friends Animal Society / animals pets rescue charity dogs cats rabbits animal_sanctuaries Utah Kanab national_parks parrots pigs horses
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary located 5 miles outside Kanab, Utah. Kanab is a terrific little town (pop. 5,400), a few miles north of the Arizona border, from where a visitor can travel to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Lake Powell.
- Bikram Yoga / Bikram_Yoga Hatha_Yoga
This website is a great introduction to Bikram Yoga, a series of 26 postures done in a hot room with fellow practitioners -- students who have been doing Bikram Yoga for years and students who are just starting. It's an amazing Hatha Yoga practice! The testimonials page is fascinating though if I had a lot of pain from injuries and/or chronic conditions, I probably wouldn't have the incredible fortitude and perseverance to work through it like some of these folks who know that this yoga practice will help relieve their discomfort over time.
- Duke Lemur Center -- Mission Statement / lemurs Duke_Lemur_Center
If you can't travel all the way to Madagascar to see lemurs in their natural habitat, you could go to the Duke Lemur Center instead, which is located in North Carolina. I'm looking forward to going there someday.
- IAVA - Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America - An Introduction to IAVA / IAVA Iraq_Veterans Afghanistan_Veterans Iraq_War
The title of this bookmark speaks for itself. The video clip is well worth watching.
- If I Ran the Universe... / librarian_blog twisted_humor opossums
If you're a LIS student, a librarian, a library paraprofessional, or someone who knows and loves librarians, you may get a kick out of this librarian's outlook on life inside and outside the library.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Thing #5 - Exploring Flickr
Speaking of Killarney, here's a photo of Ross Castle from Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/95135184@N00/199777661/
And now for two photos from one of our home activities:
This is from when I worked at a large animal shelter, giving my husband and me a golden opportunity to foster kittens and raise the occasional "bottle babies." At the time this little character and his sibling came into the shelter, the policy was that the kittens had to be eating on their own before they could go into foster care. These two put on a good show, but after I brought them home, they both said, "We were fakin' it; give us a bottle please!" They weighed about 8-10 ounces each and were probably about three weeks old.
At the time, because of their size, we thought the black and white kitten was a male and that the brown tabby was a female. Turned out to be the other way around though the B&W girl was pretty hefty at 2 months of age while her brother was more on the petite side. Even at two months of age, when they were able to eat dry food with no problem, they still enjoyed a comfort bottle from time to time. When she was two months old, the B&W kitten was able to hold her own bottle.
I found it easier to upload photos from my computer than from a website like Flickr. For some reason, even though Blogger went through the motions and said that the photo I was uploading from a particular URL on Flickr had uploaded successfully, nothing showed up. Frustrating! Instead I saved the photo to my desktop and then added it to Blogger through the "Add Image" function, which worked great. Well, it worked great until I tried to publish this post. I received several error messages indicating that some of the Html tags were not OK. Fortunately, one by one, each Html tag that Blogger didn't like was highlighted, so I removed each offensive one as it was identified by the system and wondered what the removal of these tags would do to the overall appearance of the blog post. Finally, it must have run out of inappropriate Html tags because it showed up as being published. I have no answer for why certain Html formatting showed up as inappropriate unless it had to do with the first photo from Flickr that I tried to upload a few times. Otherwise, I'm stumped. Enough blogging and Flickr exploration for today.
The movie, Foul Play, from which I derived my blogger identity, arrived recently from Netflix. I haven't seen this movie yet but look forward to watching it. It's a 30-year old comedy-thriller involving a shy San Francisco librarian (Goldie Hawn) and the detective assigned to protect her (Chevy Chase). It is supposed to be a spoof of Hitchcock suspense thrillers.
~ Ms. Mundy ~