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Oh My Elfin’ Gawd… Ye!p in the Hizzy: JT of GoodLife

Check out some pictures from the Yelp Elite Christmas Party at Fresh Cafe:

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Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs is washing my windows at my condo!

Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs is washing my windows at my condo! Actually they are at the other of the twin towers but I got a bunch of shots as i watch him working. he is really funny and kept yelling explicatives when he kept missing the ropes need to maneuver around while up there. Hard to tell from this shot but he is actually really afraid of heights. He was yelling every time he forgot and looked down.

I love your show Mike thanks for coming to Hawaii and for cleaning my house.

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Stupid but True: Why do you never see baby pigeons?

Do you remember ever seeing a baby pigeon?

First of all, unlike dippy little English sparrows or robins, pigeons hide their nests.

Back when they emerged in Asia (evidently, they were nature-living animals, once), pigeons were cliff-dwellers. So now they balance their messy nests of sticks inside the guts of bridges, or atop tall buildings, or on top of your air conditioner. Pigeons are also extraordinarily greedy and the babies, or squabs, pork out constantly. The doting parents don’t feed these butter-balls your typical bird baby-food. These birdlets get something called “pigeon milk,” and the faint-of-stomach may not wish to explore this paragraph further. Both parents manufacture in their crop, or throat, a rich, fatty “milk” that looks much like yellow cottage cheese. They ralph this delicacy up and expel it into the throats of their darlings. You can see this white stuff glowing in the crops of the squabs. They’re just full of it.

The parents will feed the babies until they’re totally feathered out, until they are of an equal size or bigger to their parents. You know when people eat squab, that’s when they take ‘em — when they’re nice and plump.” Squab, for the culinarily challenged, being baby pigeon.

The fact that pigeons only lay two eggs at a time means that they can spoil their little darlings, unlike some other birds that produce several babies, half of which drop dead leaving only the strongest.

This leads me on to my theory as to why pigeons are stupid, a lack of natural selection against the really thick ones just doesn’t happen in childhood and the bad genes don’t get weeded out of the gene pool. But that has nothing to do with the original question.

Care to practice finding the youngsters? Look for them in the spring and summer.

They may have stray strands of down poking through their feathers.
They may retain a trace of the “lip” around their beak that gives the parents a wider ralphing target.
Their heads may be narrower.
They may be shy. They’re more timid, They won’t be professional in going after the best food.

I took these pics while going to school in Kanagawa, Japan in Hiratsuka-Shi @ Tokai University Shonan

Another nice sunset from home

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