{"id":6088,"date":"2011-09-30T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T19:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T19:37:34","slug":"ducks-and-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/ducks-and-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks and monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Ducks\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ducks0911b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ducks0911b-600x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ducks\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6092\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most of the summer, non-migratory Canadian geese controlled the north bank of the river on my way to work. Now it&#8217;s occupied by a corps of ducks. Is there something going on I should know about?<\/p>\n<p>Also in my camera: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tribulus_terrestris\" target=\"_blank\">public enemy #3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Tribulus terrestris\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tribulus0911a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tribulus0911a-600x446.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tribulus terrestris\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6090\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another approach to weeding:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Caterpillar\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/caterpillar0911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/caterpillar0911-600x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Caterpillar\" width=\"600\" height=\"268\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6093\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>There has been <a href=\"http:\/\/tpsaye.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/26\/on-monkey-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">some loose talk recently<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/david.tribble.com\/text\/monkeys.html\" target=\"_blank\">monkeys typing Shakespeare<\/a>. This gives me an excuse to mention a couple of favorite short stories. Russell Maloney&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nsm.uh.edu\/~dgraur\/Texts\/logic.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Inflexible Logic<\/a>&#8221; is the second-best tale on the topic. The best is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansible.co.uk\/sfx\/sfx092.html\" target=\"_blank\">R.A. Lafferty<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Been a Long, Long Time,&#8221; which unfortunately is not available online. I did find <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071012204844\/www.scifi.com\/scifiction\/classics\/classics_archive\/lafferty5\/lafferty51.html\" target=\"_blank\">another Lafferty story<\/a>, though, which might illustrate why I have a shelf of his books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the summer, non-migratory Canadian geese controlled the north bank of the river on my way to work. Now it&#8217;s occupied by a corps of ducks. Is there something going on I should know about? Also in my camera: public enemy #3. Another approach to weeding: ***** There has been some loose talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/ducks-and-monkeys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ducks and monkeys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,22,34],"tags":[673,472],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-not-anime","category-photo-gallery","category-whatever","tag-photo-gallery","tag-r-a-lafferty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1Ac","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}