I was lucky enough to get away with just a huge adrenaline rush when doing a stream survey in AK. I walked around a curve of the stream and a BIG male sea otter was sunning itself, having a nice little snooze.

So.... reason. Most animals don’t like you getting up close into their face, and probably abruptly. It’s called instinctive reaction.

Kinda O/T but to me still pertinent. Reading about Ursula Le Guin’s death had me remembering my (brief) interactions with her. One thing she did say was that while the Studio Ghibli movie from her Earthsea books was lovely to look at, the plot made her unhappy. VERY unhappy. It was made by the son, Goro, not Miyazaki…

Other than her, I didn’t recognize any of the other “celebrities”...

Well, being 61, I guess I prove your point. I liked the show. It was something different and interesting, and I first stumbled across it at a remote field site in AK. This meant we had something fun to listen to out there in the olden dayz (no electricity except a solar panel to charge our radio to talk to town).

Sure you were gonna retire back then, bitch.

Well, she and her staff learned from the “best”...

Not where I live. They’ve been around for AGES.

Shit! Don’t mention this to my SO!!! He’d go for it.

While I think, “What the fuck is this person doing telling me what to buy!?”

The one that gob-smacked me was the guy who insisted on having five or six bathrooms. For two people. WTF?

Where?

Someone told me you had to have already been in the process of buying a house before you get on a show like that. Dunno if it’s true or not...

The only one I find interesting is the HH International, just cuz it’s interesting to see how people live in different countries.

I got kicked off a website for pointing this out. Not for threatening violence, but for pointing out that repubs were using VERY violent rhetoric.

I’ve worked a number of jobs which required me to carry a gun. Not bragging, just stating. This whole thing about librulz don’t know how to shoot is crapola.

I... can’t. I can’t even fathom this.

Fuck almighty.

You want to hear something interesting? My boss is also the head of the special ed department at school. As such, she keeps up on such things as vaccines, toxins, autism, etc.

Eff these people. My kid doesn’t do drugs, doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, and still ended up in the hospital for three weeks through no fault of hers.