Tag: Squirrel
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My Lego Build: The Revolt
It started with an amusing meme of a Lego squirrel about to cut a park ranger. That 10×10 tiny build was the inspiration for a much bigger version of it, that kept expanding. Trying to recreate even the small version provided a challenge, going through BrickLinks to find the ranger top, hat, knife, and even…
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My Pledge re: so-called AI and this Blog
With the prevalence of so-called artificial intelligence (AI), the amount of people turning to it to the technology to help them write, or fully write, content is growing quickly. While it may be getting more difficult to detect assisted writing and generative images, it is still fairly easy and reliable. Regardless, I want to be…
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Abert’s Squirrels and Wonderful Variations
After moving from Denver to the nearby mountains, I was quite happy to learn that I had four different kinds of squirrels in the area. The Golden Mantle Ground Squirrel, Least Chipmunk, Douglas Pine Squirrel, and the Abert’s Squirrel. The last is also known as the tassel-eared squirrel. Native to the southern Rockies, they can…
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2022 Cross-country Drive (Part 1: Overview)
Overview Over the last 10.5 years, I have taken all of two weekends completely off from work. Just those two times that I did not work at all. No other vacations, just working hard in start-up mode well past the start-up phase. I do not have strong enough words to warn you off from doing…
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Squirrel Tech Support
Last year in October, I did a release of Fox squirrels for Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation after they had been rehabilitated. These squirrels couldn’t go back exactly where they came from because the owner of the property wasn’t available to give permission, which is required by Colorado Parks and Wildlife regulations. A wonderful lady that was…
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10 Greatest Squirrel Attacks of All Time
In the wake of the ‘Squirrel Power‘ article by Jon Mooallem who boldly proclaimed “OH MY GOD, LOOK, I WROTE ABOUT POWER OUTAGES CAUSED BY SQUIRRELS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES“. I had to remind him that while awesome, he is not the first to warn people of this dastardly threat. In a presentation titled…
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The Popcorn Thesis
During a recent email thread, a friend and I were comparing our local squirrels. She put forth that her Chicago squirrels did not eat popcorn, to which I expressed my disbelief. I couldn’t imagine a squirrel turning their nose up at it. I said I would have to test that theory. I’ll be curious whether…
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Why Squirrels…
I get that question frequently, for obvious reasons. Not only is the attrition.org mascot a demented angry squirrel named Lazlo, but I seemingly have a serious fixation on squirrels if you read my Twitter stream. For over two years, I have been feeding squirrels that made their way up to my balcony, some that come…
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Squirrel Power?
[07-16 23:55] jericho: zoo was too busy, so did the aquarium and the children’s museum [07-16 23:59] K: how was that? [07-16 23:59] jericho: aquarium was pretty neat. never been to the one here [07-16 23:59] jericho: children’s museum is not a museum, rather a place for kids activities [07-16 23:59] K: right [07-16 23:59]…