Anya ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
What's going on in Chicago:
Chicago canal to be poisoned to kill invasive carp
Tonight, federal and Illinois officials will begin poisoning a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the hope of killing the invasive carp that may have moved north of an electric barrier designed to keep them out of Lake Michigan.
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Should carp reach the lake, scientists fear the voracious fish could wipe out native species by hoarding available food sources.
They've got a similar issue in Northern California where non-native trout that were introduced into certain mountain lakes have been fucking up the ecosystem. So they're thinking about poisoning the trout. Kind of an ecological reset button, but "poisoning the lake" just doesn't sound good.
But still, "invasive carp" sounds more lame than "invasive trout."
Does anybody have SE driving experience (Ginger?) and can give me a sense of which is better? Google maps routes me to Chillicothe OH via Charlotte and Charleston WVa, and say it will take 10 hours (UGH). But from Cincinnati home it sends me via Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta, and says 8.5 hours. (It's 2 from Cinti to Chillicothe.) It kinda doesn't add up to me, somehow. Cursed mountains, and damn you Chillicothe OH for being in the middle of nowhere.
WANT!! Jilli, think of the Fourth of July party!
Yessssss. Tesla coil, I needs one.
flea, where are you coming from? What's on the other end of the trip from Ohio?
Ooo, I want the koi boots too!
Timelies all!
Once again I am under a cat. I don't really mind, as long as she isn't trying to eat my hair, or my buttons, or my earrings...
Dear lord, the Brooklyn real estate site I read just had the mother of all Godwins: [link]
BWAHAHAHA! Oh Park Slope, don't ever change.
Abstaining Blue Footed Boobies Get Sexier
Now this is a new angle on abstinence, at least, in the kingdom. Male blue-footed boobies who abstain from sex for a year develop a brighter, more attractive shade of blue in their feet.
From our friends at National Geographic:
A new study shows that while attractiveness of the blue feet diminishes with age in males that reproduce each year, if males skip a breeding season and dont mate, they displayed a more attractive foot color and had more green chroma....
They concluded that its likely the sabbaticals from reproducing offspring may allow the male boobies to physically recover and display brighter feet in their quest in finding a mate.