Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts (wikipedia).
It is human to see human responses around us, and we have the ability for abstraction. So we apply human patterns to animals and objects. “An evil wind blows..” Continue reading “anthropomorphism – you are like me” »
Life at the SPCA shelter. That people lie are not surprising. What is surprising, is that they are so bad at it.
Someone mailed the shelter, asking them to take a kitty back or have it put down, as it was catching mice. Continue reading “a shelter life” »
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut
A carpenter was commissioned to build some boxes for a SPCA cat shelter. This is what he did. He did not even bother to pretend to do a half decent job. Continue reading “digital carpentry” »
An insane man have placed poison around Oslo, hidden in little piles of sawdust, to murder dogs.
I woke up yesterday, to a flood of warnings on facebook, telling me about this deeply disturbed individual, and that several dogs had already died. Even in my grumpy pre-coffee morning haze, something smelled a little off. Continue reading “the mysterious case of the dead dog” »
“Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth...”
Encyclopedia of life is an amazing, insane undertaking. E. O. Wilson did a delightful, rambling TED-talk, and things actually happened. Continue reading “a ux look at (the encyclopedia of) Life” »
Gulls are not the most popular birds. But they are beautiful, in their specialized and very able ways. The ducks don’t have a chance..
I haz nut.
Work work – no time to sightseeing or go arty photographing. Little snippets, though. Continue reading “wildlife, geeklife” »
Squirrels are the best pea-brains I know of. Oportunistic, curious, adaptable; and wonderfully forgetful. It always makes me smile when passing a tree, rock or building, with a little tree growing out of it. Forgotten nuts moves nature around. Continue reading “squirrels & nuts” »
Sweet, funny and true.
The rest can be found here – all delightful.
I took a trip to the zoo. And was reminded of how annoying humans are.
Continue reading “Threatened by extinction – the nordic ark” »