Man, work has been bitch-ass busy, or if you want to get scientific about it, it’s been two metric cubits of business on the Bitch-ass/Depardieu Continuum. Yesterday, it was literally one thing after another. I had a customer waiting for me in the lobby when my boss busted in and started jabbering away and the phone started ringing as I was responding to an urgent email from another client. It’s moments like those when I want to kick my computer off my desk Office Space-style and walk out the goddamned door. (Why are there a million recreations of the printer scene on You Tube? Getting a fucking life people, Jesus. Your mom is tired of scrubbing Cheetos stains out of your tighty-whities.)
It just got so fucking bonkers that I left to take a walk and after getting about a hundred feet from the office I heard this ridiculous noise coming from the sky above me. There was a hawk circling slowly over a small wooded area and two crows were making all the racket while dive-bombing the hawk. One crow would fly just out of the hawk’s reach while the other crow would fly up into the air a bit higher before turning back on the hawk and plunging towards it as fast as it could go. The hawk would bank away from the diving crow and the two crows would regroup and trade rolls before recreating the whole event.
I walked and watched them do this for about 5 minutes when another hawk appeared in the distance and looked like he was about to flank the crows. Somehow the crows sensed what was happening and it broke into a full-on dogfight. Both crows and both hawks swooped and dove and attempted to drive the other species out the local airspace. Eventually the crows forced the hawks apart and divided they were no match for the crows. The crows had better maneuverability and the hawks just couldn’t compete. It was like watching TIE fighters take on a Calamari Cruiser, they couldn’t beat it, but they could fly circles around it.
In the end the hawks were forced off, and the crows flew back to the small wooded area. It was pretty badass, and I was ready to go back into work.
The only one, today?
hehehe. Star Wars. hehehe.
My wife used to walk across Central Park in New York to get to work. She saw a pigeon plucked out of the air mid-flight by one of those assassin birds they introduced to keep down the rat population.
She also told me about another male pigeon that was twitterpating with a dead pigeon. I told her the dead pigeon was probably pigeon-hot.
I’ve also seen smaller birds, probably Starlings, kick ass on crows in the same manner that you described the crow-hawk fight. Birds are weird. They’ve got the dominance thing different than we do. Apparently the little guy wins.
Hey! What’s the (Change) link next to my name? Oh, crap, what am I asking you for?
Mokie, what’s the (Change) link next to my name? If it’s for editting comments, I may just poop in happyness[SIC]! Doesn’t work in IE but if that’s really what it’s for, I’ll perhaps download that other browser, FireInMyHole, or something like that…
I should note that the new CSS looks positively awful on IE6. I heartily encourage everyone on the planet to switch to Firefox, Opera, or Safari (there’s a Windows port). Nobody has any excuse to use Internet Exploder, with the exception of when you’re using it to download a different browser.
The change link is there only so you can change the details you’ve previously entered for commenting (it saves the data in a cookie and uses it again so you don’t have to enter it twice).
In regards to editing your comments, so sorry. Not likely to be implemented in the foreseeable future. Wordpress just isn’t built to allow anonymous users to comment on a blog and then edit their own comment (and everyone who comments on this blog is effectively anonymous, as far as the wordpress infrastructure is concerned). There are plugins which allow it, but the only “good” one I’ve found:
1) requires major edits of the wordpress code, which I’m trying to avoid in order to make upgrades more seamless (and regular)
2) conflicts with the current comment-editor thinger allowing registered users to edit their own comments (which is fully integrated into k2, the theme the blog is currently based on)
I suppose I could allow public registration, but that would just be inconvenient for me, now wouldn’t it?
Sha. No kidding. Like *anyone* would stand a chance with the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser’s redundant shielding system. As if.
Bah, none of them are any match for the Chiss. Call yourselves Star Wars fans.
And if you just get orange underwear you take care of the other problem too.
omg wtf it’s a trap, lol
GO RAVENS!!!
where did the crows get rolls?
wait what?
I hate freakin’ crows. All they’re good for is giving us histoplasmosis.
It is a little bit sad (British for lame) that as I was reading your post I was rooting for the hawks and this was disappointed to read that the crows won the battle for the skies. I think I need to get me a more exciting life. Stat.
j$ FTW ladies and gentlemen!
I once had a kamikaze white bird fly straight down from the sky, knock out the logo on the front of my car, and come to rest in the grill of my car. I thought it was an omen of some sort. Maybe I shouldn’t have been smoking pot.
thx
j$: I believe you mean: THX-1138.
That’s right, I went there.