And it's nothing to him on the tiniest whim

My gimmick continues unabated through my humor blog! How's it being received? You know, I don't much care. It's a format I haven't got tired of writing yet and you have no idea how valuable that is. Anyway, here's pieces that I've posted on the humor blog in this past week:

• MiSTed: JSH: War of attrition (Part 3 of 3)


• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Throw Pillows vs Hair Dryers


• Statistics Saturday: Some Signs of Spring


• 60s Popeye: Popeye's Hypnotic Glance, it was much better than Cats


• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: The Gregorian Calendar vs Traditions


• What's Going On In Gasoline Alley? Why would anyone make a Gasoline Alley movie? January - March 2021


• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Carols vs Rural Free Delivery


• MiSTed: What To Invent (part 1 of 3)

Still trying to understand that woodpecker. Here's a few more pictures.

He gives me a break by poking his head out from behind the older feeder, at least.

He took a couple diversions to our big tree, giving me a chance to get poor pictures of him from a different angle.

If my camera were a tiny bit to the right this would be a great action shot of a bird mid-pose, about to land on the feeder.

I try again at photographing a bird about to land on the feeder, with worse results.

And here's a bird about to land on the crook atop the feeder.

Looking out our street. It might not look like a great surface, but understand: they plow it nearly once a winter and they resurfaced it, we assume, sometime after the road was first paved in 1918.

Trivia: To break a miner's strike in 1898, the Pana Coal Company in Virden, Illinois began hiring from southern states, and had recruiters claim that all the white workers had joined the army for two-year stints. Source: 1898: The Birth Of The American Century, David Traxel.

Currently Reading: Across The Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, Earl Swift.