Nov 4
oxyala trio commented on
News from the Animal Kingdom: Some Animals Can Display Grief for the Dead.
Re: Crow funerals.
Two birds got zapped on a transformer in my neighborhood landing at the bottom of the telephone pole. Later, in the early evening, a long stream of crows coming from the NW off the sound alit in a huge redwood across the street - hundreds of them. Once the final bird arrived, they all ceased cawing and were completely and utterly silent for 3 minutes. (I tracked it on my phone.) Then, without audible communication (to me anyway), they peeled off in a stream of crow, heading the same direction inland they'd been going before stopping to pay respect to their fallen idrin/sistren.
It was an emotional scene that felt honored to witness.
Oct 27
oxyala trio commented on
The Arrivals.
Rousseau was right about you, Charles.
"The Library" is a monument only to itself. It's not integrated with the rest of Seattle and is especially not integrated with the human scale space around it. Charles, please throw off the chains of your 'Coolhouse' worship so you can enjoy the lightness of the rail, unimpeded.
Oct 19
oxyala trio commented on
We Think of Hobsbawm.
5 - WTF are you talking about? Do you have a point that's germane to the post, or are you just prattling on in a public forum?
Leave the peripatetic rambling circumlocution to Charles, please. He's got more than enough for us...
Oct 6
oxyala trio commented on
Left to the Greeks.
Ah yes. Prosperity is bad if the guided by social-capitalists (Germany), whereas complete economic disarray it good if guided (?!) by pseudo-socialist.
Charles, you often appear as an apparition of ideology barely disguised by human skin.
Oct 2
oxyala trio commented on
Lunchtime Quickie.
Looked like Win Chun to me, but it could have been almost any martial art, including Krav Maga or Xingyi. Great balance, hands in front, guard up, moving forward, striking when the opponent leads with his head.
His demeanor and decision making both indicate someone who's spent a lot of time training and sparring.
Despite the belty overhang...
Sep 24
oxyala trio updated the link to his or her website.
Two birds got zapped on a transformer in my neighborhood landing at the bottom of the telephone pole. Later, in the early evening, a long stream of crows coming from the NW off the sound alit in a huge redwood across the street - hundreds of them. Once the final bird arrived, they all ceased cawing and were completely and utterly silent for 3 minutes. (I tracked it on my phone.) Then, without audible communication (to me anyway), they peeled off in a stream of crow, heading the same direction inland they'd been going before stopping to pay respect to their fallen idrin/sistren.
It was an emotional scene that felt honored to witness.