china hat road
after a stubborn week of cloud cover, the city shone this morning with the sun from the east. a lenticular cloud was making its way over mount hood - and at one point, it looked like the mountain was wearing a china hat.
found magazine, here we come
so peter and i went to a christmas party saturday night - the kind of party that you wouldn't be invited to because it involves martinis and violins and high class societal jokes. the portland horticultural society was there and they sang a top shelf drunken rendition of "o little town of bethlehem" (they actually used the word "compost" in the lyrics). we're meandering our way through the networking crowds and a slip of paper on the floor caught my eye. i picked it up - and it said "I POOP". found magazine, here we come.
whale sings lonely song
i found this the other day. why can't i stop thinking about it?
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A lone whale, with a voice unlike any other, has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years, American marine biologists said Wednesday.
Using signals recorded by the U.S. Navy to track submarines, they traced the movement of whales in the Northern Pacific and found that a lone whale singing at a frequency of around 52 hertz has cruised the ocean since 1992.
Its calls, despite being clearly those of a baleen, do not match those of any known species of whale, which usually call at frequencies of between 15 and 20 hertz.
The mammal does not follow the migration patterns of any other species either, according to team leader Mary Anne Daher.
The calls of the whale, which roams the ocean every autumn and winter, have deepened slightly as a result of aging, but are still recognizable.
