Scott Harris

These are really pretty and bring me joy

Later, when one of the monsters cranked up the volume, the party really got going.

Later, when one of the monsters cranked up the volume, the party really got going.

TIL this ☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻

Yes actually! If you google transferring music from spotify to apple music, it's a few step process... majorly simple. All the albums, artists, playlists, etc. come over! 1-2-3-easy!

Here is another example of AI displacing workers. I think it's rotten. Unless we radically reform Capitalism and institute basic income, people will be left without jobs. People need SOMETHING TO DO!

Lifetime Android user, has ditched Spotify for Apple Music and I'm not looking back.
After the ridiculous price increases on Spotify and the way they don't pay their artists, it was time to move on. Apple made it easy to transfer all my playlists and favorites too.

Agree with this. It's impossible. Why break what used to work?

I AM A FUCKING PLUMBING GOD!!!

(He said as he successfully plumbed in the new ice machine. NO LEAKS!)

And I bet you'd like it! 😜

A beautiful pink cocktail in a coupe glass

Pink Gin 50/50 Martini
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1½ oz @catoctincreek.bsky.social Shenandoah Gin
1½ oz Bianco Vermouth
2 dashes rhubarb bitters

Delicious!!! #cheers 🍸

ugh. *They're* (I promise I am not illiterate.)

One of my favorites. Word is, their thinking of renaming it Wolf Hawk, which would be awesome considering they hunt in packs.

Adult Harris’s Hawk

Neighborhood Harris’s Hawk at sunset 🪶

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Just started reading The Birding Dictionary and am reminded of Ambrose Bierce. I've laughed aloud at the American Robin definition and then stopped to search to learn more about the Anhinga b/c my curiosity was piqued. Small book that's big on fun and learning.

I was lucky to see these as #lifer birds in Minnesota this weekend.

And a regular reminder that tunicates are chordates. These tulip things are in the same phylum as YOUUUUU 🧪

I note here that about 2/3rds of the US military budget is compensation — salaries, health care, pension, GI Bill, disability & veteran care — so while it may take a generation to reduce spending by half, it’s not impossible.

The military shouldn’t be the Get Out Of Poverty card it’s become.

Thanks Dave!

Northern hawk owl stares into the camera.

Northern hawk owl

#birds #birding 🦉🪶

A snow scene with birch, tamarack and spruce.

A snow scene with birch, tamarack and spruce. People are walking on a snowy trail.

A snow scene with birch, tamarack and spruce. A sign says, "Magnificent Mile Feeders"

Two guys stand outside the Lois King Education Center.

Birding the Sax-Zim Bog, Northern Minnesota. Gorgeous winterscape. #winter

It would also be cool to see a bunch of northern birds lacking on my list: Northern Hawk-Owl, Boreal Owl, Redpoll, Evening Grosbeaks, Pine Grosbeaks, Spruce Grouse, Bohemian Waxwings, and a bunch of northern woodpeckers, but I'll be happy to see just this one guy, if I can.

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Strictly a northern bird, it hunts small mammals in the snow. By using its face feathers like a satellite dish, it has super hearing, and can triangulate mice BELOW THREE FEET OF SNOW, even AT NIGHT!! To see them dive in the snow and come out with a tasty mouse is really something impressive.

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A huge great gray owl sits on a snowy branch.

Heading to Northern Minnesota this weekend, hoping to see this big boy: the Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa). The largest owl in North America, it sits over 3 feet tall, and has a wingspan of over 5 feet. (This was the climactic bird in the wonderful birding movie, The Big Year.)

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#birds 🪶🦉

100%. I grew up in Germany, and the soft boiled eggs had to have completely firm whites, but a creamy wet yolk, so that you could sop it up with brotchen. And unlike the the Parisians, the Germans provided you with a tiny little egg cup, so you didn't have it slipping around all over the place.

Also, how about those blood-orange yolks in that photo?? We just can't get them like that here with our pale yellow chicken yolks.

These eggs were cooked a bit too long. Only the deepest part of the yolk is still runny.

In my hotel in Paris this week, they had something I'd not seen before, a communal 8 egg boiler with color-coded ladles for egg dipping. After a week of trials, I can report that exactly 4:30 is the correct answer for "regular" sized soft-boiled eggs. Pictured below was 6 minutes.

If people from work are going to insist on texting me so much, I need an autoresponder for my phone when I'm on a trip!

It's too young. 💔

Hell yes

In Paris, and I find myself singing La Vie en Rose to myself constantly like a fucking idiot! 🇫🇷