General chit chat and shit talk.

Nice to see they found a solution. Hopefully they can find a way to implement this in a widespread manner, and do so while developing a smaller window footprint for the dots or equivalent:


But at the building that has long been the city’s most notorious bird killer, a sprawling lakefront conference venue that claimed almost a thousand birds on a single day in October 2023, new protections were in place.

The vast glass windows and doors of the building, called Lakeside Center at McCormick Place, are overlaid with a pattern of close, opaque dots. Applied last summer to help birds perceive the glass, the treatment’s early results are nothing short of remarkable. During fall migration, deaths were down by about 95 percent when compared with the two previous autumns.
Now monitoring is underway during the first spring migration since the dots, with implications for glassy structures far beyond Chicago. Across North America, with Toronto an early leader, a growing number of bird-friendly policies and decisions by individual building managers are helping make cities safer for birds...

An Illinois Building Was a Bird Killer. A Simple Change Made a World of Difference.
 
I recently got a box of CDs of various and sundry types of music. Being a big fan of music, I'm going to listen to everything before I judge it, since most of it is actually stuff that I don't already have. I'm currently listening to a band called Against Me! (the album is called "Searching For A Former Clarity"). One of the dogs was laying down by my desk, but he couldn't take the music anymore. He got up, looked at the CD player, gave me a disgusted look, and left.
 
Coming up on a month sober, I'm down around 7 pounds.. I just started lifting some weights, and doing some body weight stuff, planks, squats etc. to see if I can get the lbs to drop off a bit quicker.
 
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