OK, so this is becoming sort of a boring bird blog of sorts. Sorry. I’ll try to be more interesting in the future, but at least I’m posting! I’ve figured out the whole eagle thing (almost). I don’t know where they nest (yes, it’s a pair), but I do know where they spend the night: […]

Here’s a shot of a Pileated Woodpecker in my backyard. They are fairly common around here during certain times of the year. Very loud and not very shy, they seem to like Magnolia Trees. Oh, I also had a Barred Owl in the yard last week - heard them many times before, but this is […]

Photos from our August 2007 Boundary Waters Canoe Area trip with my dad and cousin David:

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This is a Max Fleischer cartoon from 1932 featuring Cab Calloway as a freaky ghost walrus. I pulled the clip from the fabulous Archive.org and cleaned up the horrid audio (normalized, eq a bit to get rid of the hiss). Very trippy, weird and not a little bit scary!

A little behind on posting photos, but here are some shots of Nitin, Venkat and Mani from a March 2007 visit to Kennedy Space Center:

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