Vigilant Baker

And you will get your just rewards when the final run is scored

OK, I’m usually pretty good with alt text, but this one may defeat me. Imagine the biggest, wrinkliest black dog. Now imagine a large, violently green ball. Now imagine that Peanut the mastiff has put a ball exactly the size of his enormous maw into his enormous maw, completely filling it like a cork, or a big green baby binky. That is this.

A friend just sent me this picture of his mastiff, Peanut.

Let it wash over you.

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

I miss the days of two hours ago when I was imagining myself as a cow in a field

I know I'm screaming into the void, but it is cathartic to call my senator and say "I mean this in the politest way possible, but what the actual fuck are you doing? So many people are going to die because of your vote."

Photo of a tubby little wren (what I like to call a "little dumpling birb") perched on an icy branch, taken by Jeff Cohen

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...

8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

here are some hobbies to pick up if u want to demonstrate value or become more interesting:

-chess (shows u are smart)
-photography (demonstrates artistic sensitivity)
-frog collector (shows u have a large collection of frogs)

A four-panel comic called "The Four Seasons of Bird Watching." In Panel 1, titled Elegant Songbird Spring, a yellow-throated vireo is singing against a green backdrop. In panel 2, titled Subtle Treasure of Summer, a hermit thrush sits in a lush deep woods. In panel 3, titled Magnificent Fall Migrations, broad-winged hawks fly over a colorful fall forest. In panel 4, titled Weird Duck Time, three ducks are calling exuberantly: a northern shoveler, red-breasted merganser, and surf scoter.

It's Weird Duck Time again!
I made this comic a few years ago, and I was unsure if anyone else felt like winter was best characterized as the time of the weird ducks. The term has caught on and I've heard people using it without knowing where it's from, which is the highest possible honor.

What's in the air fryer?

If it's not too late, I'm in the state and interested. I study plant population modeling under climate change, uncertainty in decision making, and risky conservation strategies, and I would love to talk about it with you folks! (This is not an academic account; let me know how to contact further.)

TNG scene. We're on the Enterprise in sickbay. Picard, Crusher, Troi and Riker are all together posed like a weird after school special. Up front and sitting is Picard in civilian clothes-a green, drapery loose fitting silky little number. He's sitting casual like with a somewhat forced happy smile. To his left and standing is Crusher, in uniform, arms crossed. Behind Picard is Troi, in Counselor uniform, looking down at Picard and seeming distracted. Immejiately behind Troi is a tall Riker in red uniform, head cocked like a dog when they hear a weird noise, looking sideways and seriously at Troi. Closed caption reads, "I only wish I had the opportunity to use it on a horse."

Like, I get that things vary and you can't quite have a linear scale here, but in California, we just threw on a bunch of "extras" before the sharp and all of them were lies. That makes much more sense to me.

Well, I wasn't too thrilled when the wicked sharp tasted like provolone. But the extra sharp lived up to its name.

Maybe there are two axes? Mild/sharp and serious/wicked

I have no idea which cheddar is sharper: extra sharp, seriously sharp, or wicked sharp

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can, and should, make grilled cheese in a waffle maker.

Oh cool! New social media. Maybe this time I'll actually engage and post things! Realistically, I'll stress over how to write a few posts that only a few people will see and then just passively scroll from time to time.