pride before a fall
Oct. 20th, 2014 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaGood news, everybody! Curious Ritual has a bandcamp! Now you can actually listen to their music. I'd say "legitimately" but Curious Ritual is a rare sort of band where your searches will lead you to information on a band rather than endless fake download sites.
I needed some good news with what's going on.
Also, everyone should listen to the Robot Knights in solidarity with Maddy Myers, and because they sing about robot knights fighting dragons and Calvin and Hobbes and stuff.
Sometimes I think "perhaps when I wake, the world will be a better place."
Also, listen to The Away Days. Galaxies reminds me of something I've heard before but I can't place it.
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Last night was the first time since May I had to wear a coat when walking the dog. Warmth, please stay just a little longer, please. It's funny because I'm actually looking forward to that nebulous period somewhere at the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015 when Avernum 2: Crystal Souls comes out.
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Socotra is like the Island of Dr. Seuss or something. It's an island off the coast of Somalia that I believe is part of Yemen but I'm not so sure now. To be honest with you, I'm not even sure what the capital of Yemen is.
Brody's vaguely heard of it and I'm surprised nobody else has heard of it.
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The gannet died and Jess has no idea why. A cormorant replaced him. He's smaller than I thought he'd be but feisty. He has blue eyes. Seriously, I though he'd be heron-sized. Birds have sort of an hourglass figure, with the lungs and heart up top and the liver and ventriculus (gizzard) and intestines and kidneys on the bottom.
This guy had a fishhook stuck somewhere in his esophagus or proventriculus.
Someone kept a turtle for five years, decided he didn't want him any more, and sent him to us to see if he was (1.) not actually a red-eared slider and (2.) healthy enough to be released back into the wild.
Turtles need vitamin d from ultraviolet-b light, around 315 to 280 nm, to metabolize calcium compounds and integrate it into their bones (and that's why Roger Klotz walks like that), and they need a specific ratio of calcium to phosphorus in their diet and insects require more or less the opposite ratio. Also, unless you're a rabbit, you can't excrete excess calcium in your urine. Seriously, if I still had a rabbit, I'd check its pee to see if it really is orange and crystal-ly.
This one has a lot of shed remnants and a scute that's kind of caved in that he was most likely either born with or obtained very early in his life but his scutes are hard and there's no sign of carapace rot. In other words, his former owner probably didn't soak him but did an ok job otherwise.
Their scutes grow outward from ribs and vertebrae. Someone looked at turtle embryos in various stages of development.
There are bacteria that can produce an enzyme called penicillinase to break apart penicillin molecules or force it out, or they find their way into cells where the immune system can't do anything about them.
Cats and ferrets are really bad about medication. Rob was telling about how people got it down their throat, rubbed their throat to make them swallow, and the cat spit it back out ten minutes later.
Speaking of eyes.
burning question: do people seriously think the light-sensitive cells are on the surface of the eye and that circle that contracts and dilates is there to look cool?
I needed some good news with what's going on.
Also, everyone should listen to the Robot Knights in solidarity with Maddy Myers, and because they sing about robot knights fighting dragons and Calvin and Hobbes and stuff.
Sometimes I think "perhaps when I wake, the world will be a better place."
Also, listen to The Away Days. Galaxies reminds me of something I've heard before but I can't place it.
***
Last night was the first time since May I had to wear a coat when walking the dog. Warmth, please stay just a little longer, please. It's funny because I'm actually looking forward to that nebulous period somewhere at the end of 2014 or the beginning of 2015 when Avernum 2: Crystal Souls comes out.
***
Socotra is like the Island of Dr. Seuss or something. It's an island off the coast of Somalia that I believe is part of Yemen but I'm not so sure now. To be honest with you, I'm not even sure what the capital of Yemen is.
Brody's vaguely heard of it and I'm surprised nobody else has heard of it.
***
The gannet died and Jess has no idea why. A cormorant replaced him. He's smaller than I thought he'd be but feisty. He has blue eyes. Seriously, I though he'd be heron-sized. Birds have sort of an hourglass figure, with the lungs and heart up top and the liver and ventriculus (gizzard) and intestines and kidneys on the bottom.
This guy had a fishhook stuck somewhere in his esophagus or proventriculus.
Someone kept a turtle for five years, decided he didn't want him any more, and sent him to us to see if he was (1.) not actually a red-eared slider and (2.) healthy enough to be released back into the wild.
Turtles need vitamin d from ultraviolet-b light, around 315 to 280 nm, to metabolize calcium compounds and integrate it into their bones (and that's why Roger Klotz walks like that), and they need a specific ratio of calcium to phosphorus in their diet and insects require more or less the opposite ratio. Also, unless you're a rabbit, you can't excrete excess calcium in your urine. Seriously, if I still had a rabbit, I'd check its pee to see if it really is orange and crystal-ly.
This one has a lot of shed remnants and a scute that's kind of caved in that he was most likely either born with or obtained very early in his life but his scutes are hard and there's no sign of carapace rot. In other words, his former owner probably didn't soak him but did an ok job otherwise.
Their scutes grow outward from ribs and vertebrae. Someone looked at turtle embryos in various stages of development.
There are bacteria that can produce an enzyme called penicillinase to break apart penicillin molecules or force it out, or they find their way into cells where the immune system can't do anything about them.
Cats and ferrets are really bad about medication. Rob was telling about how people got it down their throat, rubbed their throat to make them swallow, and the cat spit it back out ten minutes later.
Speaking of eyes.
burning question: do people seriously think the light-sensitive cells are on the surface of the eye and that circle that contracts and dilates is there to look cool?
