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The Egg — day nine and ten

Did I mention we have pigeon eggs on the window sill? Yeah? Well, they are still there.

April in Paris

Unfortunately, it’s not been the best of Aprils this Paris. There have been some real beauts, but most days were still pretty bleak looking, methinks.

This has put a damper on my April in Paris video that I’ve been working on, or rather, not been working on. Is it too cliche to make an April in Paris video? I think so too.

In other news

I have upgraded the ole browser to the new beta 3. Why not? And now, two issues that have been buggin’ seem to be gone: no more sluggish playback on streaming videos, and Scribefire is working properly again. Yay. Although I don’t think it is necessarily the new version that fixed those problems; I think perhaps it was just thanks to a clean installation.

Other bugs have crept into my life, though: I Premiere Pro has stopped using Flash movs, so I can’t make those nice effects like in the Stuffies video. And also: what the hell is wrong with my gallery?

The Egg — day eight


The Egg — day 8

The Egg — Days Six and Seven

Boy, this watching pigeons sure is exciting!

We have been able to confirm that both mates are present at the nest, and they are now much better at being there the whole time.

I wonder if the eggs will still be able to hatch, after being absent so much in the first day or so.

The Egg — Day five

The pigeon most commonly known as “feral pigeons” is the Rock Pigeon. It is the pigeon that is found in most cities.

Our pigeons are doing just fine today.

Exciting link today:
The Internet Bird Collection

What a mess.

Raaaaar!

You should always be very careful when you update your site’s features, especially if you have modified the appearance or included any little tweaks.

What a headache.

The egg — day four

The situation seems to have settled down.  A bird, or birds, sat on the egg for the majority of the day, and didn’t seem to bothered by people working on the other side of the glass.

What happenened to my theme, you ask?  I upgraded, that’s what.  Hang tight, we’ll have it back someday.

The stupidest thing on the internet

The award goes to… YAHOO! Answers.

How does it work?  You post a question, and anyone, regardless of their actual background, can chime in.  Then, everyone can vote on which answer they think is right.

The result is predictable: every question is hastily answered by multiple users who have know idea what they are talking about.  And nobody can be bothered to vote either.

Q: What color is Yak’s milk?

Answer 1: It’s pink.  Everyone knows that.

Answer 2: It’s white, stupid.  What else should it be?

That would make for a good gameshow on NPR (it’s called Whatdya Know), but for amassing and distributing useful knowledge, you really can’t get any more Schildburgermässig than this.

Thee Egg — Daay Three

Pigeon eggs require about 18 days to hatch.  The parents should take turns throughout the course of the day and ensuing night  to keep it warm.

However, our parents have been suspiciously absent for hours at a time.  In fact, we are not sure that there are two.

This time alone makes us wonder if the eggs will be able to hatch at all.

Another concern of ours is the lack of a proper nest.  Although the wild grass growing in the flowerbox does offer some protection, the walls of the box will not be high enough to retain any chicks who take to crawling around blindly.

Dum dum dum dummmmm

This is definitely one of the worst chain mailings I’ve gotten since …the last one.

What makes this one so special is that it starts us off with a little anti-immigrant demogoggery, then whips us into a rollercoaster ride of how great things were before those regulatin’ liberals and–somehow–political correctness ruined everybody’s fun.  It leaps right into a –misquoted– pro-God-in-the-pledge thing falsely attributed to Jay Leno, and then ends us off with a vague little motivational blah-blah.  And remember folks, if you’re stupid enough to not be an evangelical Christian, don’t come whining to the person who sent it to you, just delete it!

Just to make sure you UNDERSTAND everything, THE important WORDS are written BIG like THIS.

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Egg day 2

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Wait, now there’s two?