March 31, 2011

Hungover owls.

I feel better already. (Via Eve Tushnet.)

Makes me want to take a gruel nosh vow.

17 comments:

traditionalguy said...

LOL That is very a nice post connected to nature.

chickelit said...

That Eve sure casts a wide net.

wv = "humic" More acerbic wit.

galdosiana said...

Owls are among my favorite birds. I can therefore excuse their occasional booze fests, just because they are awesome.

Unknown said...

I think the first guy is flirting.

YoungHegelian said...

One naturalist who had a run-in with a territorial Artic Owl described the owl's impact with his head as "like getting hit with a 2x4 with nails in it".

They may look funny, but they're hard-core carnivores.

Automatic_Wing said...

Owls are badass. Even more so than honey badgers.

Anonymous said...

The golden owl with triangles all over his chest looks like an old school math teacher.

mythusmage said...

How gruel a nosh are you thinking of?

Chip Ahoy said...

Put's me in the mood for a Nun's Oath ale.

Ann Althouse said...

@Chip Yeah, exactly!

Anonymous said...

I'm in Washington DC for a conference. Washington is a beautiful city that is unfortunately filled with what seems to be every high school student council president, vice president, secretary and treasurer ever elected in America.

I really hate it here.

traditionalguy said...

Those may be the faces of the 50 Japanese nuclear workers studying the Fukushima reactor cores up close. As we speak a 190,000 lb Putzmeister concrete pump with an 170 foot remote controlled boom is heading to Atlanta Airport to board a Russian Antonov 225, the world's largest cargo plane, for a trip to Japan. These are interesting times.

chickelit said...

"Putzmeister" ??

Really? No disrespect intended but...really?

Unknown said...

This really isn't relevant to anything, but one of my law school buddies tipped me off to this--looks like Meade really is a celebrity!

http://meadehouse.blogspot.com

Seems like a ripoff of the Kim Jung-Il one, but apparently this website was all the rage at the law school today...

traditionalguy said...

Chickilet...I verified that it is a German made Putzmeister pump. I wonder what that translates to in German. Anyway, don't buy any used Putzmeisters next year without doing a radiation reading to see if its decontaminated. The Oak Ridge Plant in Tennessee and the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina bring in these monsters to pump streams concrete into hot places where men fear to tread.

chickelit said...

[to] pump streams of concrete into hot places where men fear to tread.>

You mean like here for example?



Now I feel like a putzmeister. Your topic was dead serious and I can do is amuse myself.

That's when you know it's time to get your head examined.

traditionalguy said...

Chiclelit...LOL. If we don't laugh, we would have to cry. It was a beautiful day today with that yellow stuff called sun light reappearing for the first time in 6 days.