Robotic Squirrels Are Coming! RUN!

Happy birthday to Erin! Erin, by the way, has been contributing to a site called Daily Writing Tips; you can see some of her posts here.

The photo above was taken on my point-and-shoot during our canoe trip last week, after Jeff made this pancake squirrel. Thomas pointed out in Flickr: "If you look closely, isn't that the face of Elvis on the tail?" Click on the photo above see the Flickr post, then move your mouse over the tail (while in Flickr) to see Thomas's note. :-D

A couple more photos I took during our trip up north (the first with my point-and-shoot, the second with the Canon 70-300 lens):





Recently posted in blogTO:


Photo courtesy Andie Rosenbaum.

My profile of editor-turned-writer: Bev Katz Rosenbaum. I had fun interviewing Bev, plus it was interesting to find out how she transitioned from her editor position at Harlequin to writing books for young people. Do check out the interview on blogTO.

LINKS O' THE DAY:

My friends John and Bruce pointed me to this article and this article about a newly discovered squirrel weapon: apparently the Californian ground squirrel can heat up its tail to confuse rattlesnakes.

But as John pointed out, what's truly disturbing about the first article is the following paragraph:

"Tests with robotic squirrels confirmed that a warmed squirrel tail made rattlesnakes more likely to act defensively, say Rundus and Owings."

!!!

UC Davis has hordes of armed robotic squirrels! It's only a matter of time, I'm sure, before their hapless scientist creators lose control and these man-made fiends break out of the laboratory, surging over the planet in a merciless feeding frenzy, leaving behind a wake of destruction in their mindless drive for peanuts and global domination.

Run, my friends! Run while you can!





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