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girls gone wild - grooming for the portrait special at sears

I was out in the backyard taking shots of the deer herd. Apparently only one fawn out of three does survived this spring, so it should be healthy with the attention and milk it is getting by default. Then my therapist called back to set up an appointment. We shall overcome.

tags: wildlife deer references fawn cultural

Here comes the sunflower

Doot n doo doo. Despite all the seeds you put into birdfeeders, the ungrateful little bird brains toss anything they don't like out of the way. Apparently a lot of them are fertile sunflower seeds. But the sunflowers are pretty. And maybe they will provide a nosh for the cardinals and finches.

tags: wildflowers beatles references sunflowers birdfeed song

Folks at the InfoSecurity Conference in London are trying to get a little free publicity with this little blurb on the Scientific American news bytes feed:

Organizers of the Infosecurity Europe computer security trade show were alarmed to discover this week that 121 of 576 subway riders (21 percent) at London's Liverpool Street Station were prepared to reveal their computer passwords in return for a chocolate bar.

tags: culture security passwords pop references chocolate