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by The Infidel
2024-04-17 10:15am
Forum: Testing
Topic: Dear diary...
Replies: 16
Views: 548

Re: Dear diary...

muse wrote: 2024-04-16 07:32pm
The Infidel wrote: 2024-04-16 03:32pm
muse wrote: 2024-04-15 11:21pm Oh god I can't unsee it!!

https://twitter.com/OlgaBazova/status/1 ... 1014585855
Blærgh!
Y du ju du tis tu mi?
Why did you click the link?
Because something killed the cat, I think.
by The Infidel
2024-04-16 03:32pm
Forum: Testing
Topic: Dear diary...
Replies: 16
Views: 548

Re: Dear diary...

muse wrote: 2024-04-15 11:21pm Oh god I can't unsee it!!

https://twitter.com/OlgaBazova/status/1 ... 1014585855
Blærgh!
Y du ju du tis tu mi?
by The Infidel
2024-04-10 08:34am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Political Cartoons Thread (NO DISCUSSIONS)
Replies: 745
Views: 622565

Re: Political Cartoons Thread (NO DISCUSSIONS)

Trumps bible. Fuck yeah!

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by The Infidel
2024-04-08 05:33pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

The nestcam is back, now with sound.

The osprey couple from last year is back, but another couple also claims the nest. Who will win the right to it? Time will show.
by The Infidel
2023-11-19 01:55pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: You must not sleep (poem)
Replies: 0
Views: 1174

You must not sleep (poem)

A strong poem by Arnulf Øverland. He wrote it just before the start of WW2, but it's just as valid today. English translation first, then the original: YOU MUST NOT SLEEP! I awoke one night from a disturbing dream; It felt as if a strange voice spoke earnestly, Low as a faint, subterranean stream. I...
by The Infidel
2023-10-17 10:54am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 511
Views: 115830

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that the Cheesecake Factory is a real thing and not something dreamt up for the Big Bang Theory.
by The Infidel
2023-10-04 02:30pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

The mother is currently in Morocco. The whereabouts of the others are unknown, since they don't have trackers. The nest is empty and the camera has been taken down. https://i.imgur.com/1syfq67.jpg https://i.imgur.com/S2Qk7vW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sMPLqxZ.jpg A branch behind the camera the birds of...
by The Infidel
2023-09-25 09:52am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

It seems like the ospreys have left the nest now. Only a crow is sometimes visiting from time to time, in hope of a snack left behind. The fledglings won't come back to Norway until 2025, if they survive, and not to the same nest. If the parents survive, they will try to use the same nest next spring.
by The Infidel
2023-09-19 01:03am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

I wonder if the correct term in English of these fish eagles is Ospreys.
by The Infidel
2023-09-18 12:48pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Most certainly not desert in the nest now. Cold rain and the forecast say it will stay this way for a few days. https://i.imgur.com/5aEOvJ7.jpg Mother is now around Le Mans, France. (She has a tracker.) If a fledgling isn't able to catch its own food soon, it will starve and die. They're already lat...
by The Infidel
2023-09-16 03:57pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

The mother has now left the nest to migrate south. Her goal is a place in west Sahara. The fledglings and father remain a little while longer, but soon the fledglings will depart south, then the father will "close" the nest for the winter and leave a little later. The kids have both manage...
by The Infidel
2023-09-04 12:10pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Both eaglets are now grown up in size and fly around and often sit on branches outside the camera's coverage. They still get fed from the parents. Nest is often empty, but not always. Is is correct to call them eaglets when they're grown? They are now like late teenagers, I guess. Kinda fully grown...
by The Infidel
2023-09-04 12:07pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

As I have often pointed out to people, in nature predators don't hunt to kill , they hunt to eat . With sometimes unfortunate implications for the meal. Concepts like "a clean kill" and "a humane death" are entirely human concepts, and not even universal amongst our kind. There'...
by The Infidel
2023-09-03 02:00pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Well, it's a bit fuzzy, but when they leave the nest for good they're definitely eagles. Before that use your judgement - do they look more like adults or babies at this point? Definitely more like grown eagles now. Maybe just call them the offspring for now. Mother came with a very alive fish arou...
by The Infidel
2023-08-25 03:39am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Both eaglets are now grown up in size and fly around and often sit on branches outside the camera's coverage. They still get fed from the parents. Nest is often empty, but not always. Is is correct to call them eaglets when they're grown? They are now like late teenagers, I guess. Kinda fully grown,...
by The Infidel
2023-08-21 04:04pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: The Empire!
Replies: 9
Views: 2712

Re: The Empire!

bilateralrope wrote: 2023-08-21 10:28am
Juubi Karakuchi wrote: 2023-08-20 09:09am It's not working. Was it posed by SWFT?
Are you viewing this board through http or https ?

Because youtube embedding only works for people using http.
I use http all the way, both forum and link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxtvvRmZFWU
by The Infidel
2023-08-20 01:43pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: The Empire!
Replies: 9
Views: 2712

Re: The Empire!

Juubi Karakuchi wrote: 2023-08-20 09:09am It's not working. Was it posed by SWFT?
Working fine here. Yes, by SWFT.
by The Infidel
2023-08-19 11:58am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: The Empire!
Replies: 9
Views: 2712

The Empire!

A rather nice video about the galactic empire.

by The Infidel
2023-08-18 03:16pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

One eaglet is now flying around a little while the other is still at most just hovering a bit above the nest. Just a few days more, and they will both be flying around.
by The Infidel
2023-08-03 07:21pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

>cough< In English a "chicken" is a very specific type of bird, Gallus domesticus . Needless to say, the most recent posts in this thread were confusing to me because the only reason I could think of for a G. domesticus to be in an eagle's nest would be very, very bad for the G. domesticu...
by The Infidel
2023-08-03 06:56am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Today at noon Norwegian time (about an hour ago, check time stamp of this post), the chicken got tagged. I bet it must be a very scary experience for it, kinda like an alien abduction. You can rewind up to 6 hours to check it out.
by The Infidel
2023-07-17 09:03am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Oh, the chicken is growing so fast. I can almost see it from day to day.
There's something wrong with the mic, so very little sound.
by The Infidel
2023-07-12 11:31am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 25
Views: 3673

Live from the eagle's nest

This is really slow TV.
It shows the nest of an eagle in the Oslofjord of Norway.

It can be relaxing to just have on a monitor.

https://www.nrk.no/piip/
by The Infidel
2023-06-17 02:57pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Your closest brush with death?
Replies: 23
Views: 8191

Re: Your closest brush with death?

Is this necro? I'm not sure anymore. Anyway... My closest brush with death... Let's see... In 2012 I got a bad case of pulmonary embolism. I could breathe, but the oxygen didn't reach my blood and I was exhausted by just standing up. Thankfully, I was at a friends place and she was educating herself...
by The Infidel
2023-06-04 05:48pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 511
Views: 115830

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

Sounds like gravlax to me, but you don't rinse that afterwards, just scrape it and it's kinda salty and thinly sliced. One of the few fish things I can stand, I really don't like fish or seafood otherwise. AHHA! Another TIL from yesterday!! Gravlax is SMOKED. This was just ... pickled... for lack o...