Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in petardier's LiveJournal:

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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
12:16 am	Jaguar close-up Here's a nice close-up of Kanga at the Phlladelpia zoo. A little too bright, but the focus is great and the reflection from the glass, at least on her face, is minimal. The rental Canon 70-200 f2.8 lens I used for this was a wonderful lens. Very tempting. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
9:30 pm	Jaguars Kanga and Lucha again. Mom is showing her 11 month old cub what "go for the throat" really means. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
12:10 am	More jaguars Kanga and Lucha later in the same bout. Eventually she nips his throat. Neither seemed damaged afterwards. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
10:04 pm	Philly jaguars Kanga and Lucha having a friendly wrestling match at the Philadelphia Zoo. He'll be a year old next month. He's more energetic and persistent, but she's still bigger than he is and more skilled. I've got a long sequence of shots where she gets past his guard and seizes his throat. Neither of them appeared damaged when they were done. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
3:33 pm	Hummingbird I don't think I've posted this one in LJ yet. This was done with flash. Without it, the iridescent coloring would be much less obvious. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare (Comment on this)
11:21 am	Quote of the day In an editorial title "Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!", Stephen King says, "Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it. I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar." The rest is here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/30/stephen-king-tax-me-for-f-s-sake.html?obref=obinsite much of it is equally profane. (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
3:02 pm	Penguin bites Newt Gingrich Old news, but it's a unbeatable headline: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-campaign-gingrich-penguin-idUSBRE83F1CL20120416 There's no word on how the penguin fared. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, April 27th, 2012
10:14 am	Otters again Same pair as last time. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare Any photo where there's a fish tail hanging out of a mouth is really photographic gold. (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
8:41 pm	Otters! Two giant otters (Pteronura Brasiliensis). The otter on the right appeared to be begging for a bite of fish - or possibly just affectionately nuzzling the ear of the other otter. I have many more shots of this interaction. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
11:32 pm	Only a socialist would force people to buy stuff they didn't want Yeah, a socialist like George Washington. The congress of 1790 mandated that ship owners had to buy insurance for their seamen(were treatments other than amputations covered?). The law was signed by George Washington. More details here: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/04/the-founders-mandates.html The congress of 1792 required all able-bodied men to buy guns. (Comment on this)
10:51 pm	Hummingbirds When two airplanes fight, it's a dogfight. When two birds fight, it's a ... From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 14th, 2012
1:04 pm	Giant Otters Image previously shared on Google+. I'm not sure if Google is tinkering with Picasaweb/Google+ interactions or not. A week or two back, my previous method of sharing ceased to work (I thought). Now it appears to be working again. The secret, as far as I can tell, is not to be logged in to Google+ when you want to embed images outside Google+. If you're not logged in to Google+, you'll find a link in Picasaweb that says "embed". That produces the code you need to embed an image stored in Picasaweb in another web site. From PicasawebWillNotLetMeShare (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
11:58 pm	Not yet reached your RDA of cute? Clouded leopard cub: I have just one question. How can they resist rubbing that adorable tum? Current Mood: confused (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
5:46 pm	Quote wish I had a source for this, but this needs to be shared more than it needs to be researched. "People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play them forwards, they install Windows." Google shows many versions of this quote in the wild. I'd managed not to see it till today. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
11:13 pm	How not to make a technical blog userful It may seem like a good idea to put a tag cloud or index of every technical term and topic ever used in your blog in the margin of your main page, but I contend this is a false, pernicious practice. Why? Suppose that the tags, "hydrogenated", "rootabaga", "cancer", and "cure" occur in your blog, but all in separate posts. Their presence in the index now means that some desperate person searching for "hydrogenated rootabaga cancer cure" may well find your blog instead of the page they actually want. Making your main page more visible to searches by putting more words on it is not the same thing as helping people to find what they want. In other new, I'm thinking of adapting this: http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/27/robotic-water-gun-shoots-squirrels-off-birdfeeder/ to keep kids off my lawn. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
11:15 pm	Was going to share a photo, but ... it looks like I need to upload it AGAIN to share here. Google+ won't share with others. Picasaweb won't share with Google+ any longer. They are, however, part of the same company. WTF? Will one of you please hurry up and digest the other so I can get back to being lazy? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
11:07 pm	Local cardinal From Web Stuff (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:37 am	How he got that way A tale of the young Grover Norquist from this past week's Sunday Globe magazine. "... his parents would take him and his siblings for ice cream after church on Sundays and his dad would confiscate large bites out of each of their cones, explaning, "This is income tax" or "This is property tax." " Apparently, he never recovered. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
4:38 pm	Yoda's wisdom in pie chart form I don't want to spoil it by telegraphing the punchline. http://flowingdata.com/2011/09/18/yoda-pie-chart/ (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
9:19 pm	African wild cat At first glance, it looked like a house cat had taken up residence at the zoo. From PhillyZoo (1 Comment |Comment on this)