How long to geese live in the wild? A pair of Canadian Geese return to campus every year, hatch a group of goslings, and leave once the kids are old enough to fly. I noticed the geese a couple of weeks ago but haven't had time to bother them until now.
Speaking of large, flightless birds, the penguin cam at SeaWorld San Diego.
The oddest thing happened at work today. For the past few days these two machines have been in the hallway outside the lab of the visiting scientist on the first floor. They must have motion sensors because when I walked by them this afternoon the protruding tubes began gesticulating wildly, the round thing on top started rotating, and they began shouting in a shrill, mechanical voice that I was not to move. I think the scientist is working on some sort of pest control device because they also started shouting "Exterminate! Exterminate!" I kept walking and nearly collided with the scientist as he wheeled around the corner. He had the nerve to yell at me for disturbing his experiment! Definitely an odd day at work.
The ficus plant in the atrium of our building at work decided to bear fruit this fall. As best I can recall this is the first time the plant has produced fruit in the twelve years I've worked in the building. You can tell by the dust on the leaves that the tree gets a lot of TLC.
These are the beasts I saw on my way to lunch this noon. The deer on the left is our friend from last week. The other deer was limping and doesn't look too healthy. Old Tom completely ignored me as I stopped to take his picture.
Lots of orange leaves on campus today.
Today I would have been the coolest kid in fourth grade.
Miller and Paine was a legendary department store in Lincoln. Eight floors of shopping and for years it had the only escalator in Nebraska. At state basketball tournament time in March the kids from outstate Nebraska schools would come into Miller and Paine for a thrill ride on those escalators.
Employee #251645 was a humble dishwasher in the basement cafeteria during the week and in the fancy tea room on Sundays. As he was the last to leave the tea room on Sundays, the humble and poor dishwasher would enjoy the famous cinnamon rolls, mac-and-cheese, and chicken pot pies.
Among the dishwasher's co-workers was the daughter of a former governor. Said daughter once said to the dishwasher "A master's degree? Don't you have to write a dysentery for that?" Another co-worker was an older woman from Kansas who looked like a cafeteria cook. The dishwasher was charmed by her because she pronounced "extra" as "extry".
Dillard's bought Miller and Paine in 1988 and closed the downtown store soon after.
The figurehead of the Vema dominates the entrance to our building at work. The Vema was christened the Hussar in 1923. It was E. F. Hutton's schooner, complete with gold faucets. The ship changed hands a couple of times before coming into the possession of Columbia in the early 1950s. The Vema was the first research vessel to sail for over a million miles. Cores of the ocean floor gathered by scientists aboard the Vema were instrumental in detecting the mid-ocean ridge system, confirming sea floor spreading, and thus the theory of plate tectonics. One or two of my plastic animals is resting, out of reach, on top of the eagle.
Despite the snow Greg and I decided to go out for lunch yesterday.
First, we took pictures:
Then we went for pizza. I had the salad slice at Via Rustica:
On our return we found road to the campus entrance had been closed because a tractor trailer was stuck on the hill. We turned around and went through the back gate. I made a video of the treacherous journey:
The campus was closed soon after we returned. Everyone got to go home early. I walked around the main campus and Morningside Park. It was snowing hard on the main campus:
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