Cute furry animals

I moved my desk the other day, so now I have a nicer look out the windows when I work on the computers. This will be good for the winter, and until April at least, because the windows face almost north. So there won't be any direct sun in my eyes with this setup for quite a while. This allows me to watch the squirrels and other wildlife out here, at the edge of the city. It is a nice change of pace, from the news of wars and troubles, global warming and outsourcing. A little bit of peace.

I look up today, while working on some admin stuff for my project, I relax a moment looking out to the grass and trees. Ten meters away, a fox goes by, an elegant, cute little predator, reddish brown and furry. It has a squirrel in its mouth, furry and cute and grey, and dead. Peace is relative.

A Landing you can walk away from...

A few days ago, a Chinese satellite returned from space. You can read about it in this article. The authorities assure us that even though the roof of the dwelling the satellite landed on was demolished, the occupants (of the dwelling, the satellite was unmanned) are unharmed. More importanly,the satellite is unharmed too, and the "precision of the landing point is among the best in the world". Aha.

Autumn 2

Sure is nice to have warm autumn weather. Except the mosquitoes are still with us. Oh well, can't have everything.

Autumn

Almost forgot I had this blog. And the number of interesting things to talk about here has been, well, manageable.

Living north of the equator, the summer is over for me, has been for just over 3 weeks now. Not being used to winters any more, I felt a great deal of relief that we are getting another unexpected week of warm weather - well above 20C. Nice.

Maybe, global warming has arrived for real? The winter will be cancelled, due to lack of interest? Too much to hope for.

I read that someone successfully enforced their copyright on a god they made up. The justification for assessment of damages being that the deity was more difficult to reach, since another believer was using the (apparently low-bandwidth) communication channel to said deity. I don't remember if the interference was remedied after this legal action, or if the monetary penalty assessed (US$800 or so) was sufficient to compensate for the lack of the gods attention. Either way, between the two believers and the courts involved in this, some people suffer from poor judgement. I have to look up the references and post them, otherwise I won't believe it myself in a few weeks.