And so, April comes to an end. Seeya next year, April! Wasn’t too bad of one this year, all told. Some stresses, some solutions… it seems to have come and gone fairly rapidly.

Was I just doing taxes 2 weeks ago? It seems like months. I’m still getting the occasional treat at http://drop.io/scottobear , feel free to drop something off, or pick something up. I removed the m4ps, but the mp3 music is still out there.

Had the in-laws over – BHk made pseudo-beef stroganoff, baked zucchini and corn on the cob – a fine dinner which caused me to consume with gusto… and too much.

Back was doing pretty well until I hit the sack – laying straight caused some medium discomfort. I think I’ll take my night meds a half hour before bed for maximum ease.

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Recent photos –

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ATW man is just sitting on the roof.. waiting for the owner to come up with a new plan, I guess… Mother’s Day is coming… maybe we’ll get to see his mama!

Also shown, our dancing robots, captured in the wee hours of the morning. I think that the designers gave the girl a lot more personality, but I think that they’re both very cute.

 Oh, I forgot one – speaking of robots – the Wall-E bench.

there’s a heart on the seat – Wall-E + Eve

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A google search for scottobear homebrew gives about 86 results. So, BHK – I do use the term homebrew every here and there! neener neener. Funny thing is that BHK did a search independent of mine, and got a more valid result of about 31. She just thinks it’s a funny word for me to use.

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A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish.

It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt.

The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja, where apes are rehabilitated into the wild after being rescued from zoos, private homes or even butchers’ shops.

“Orang hutan” means “forest man” in one of Indonesia’s many languages and our long-armed cousins do indeed show a remarkable ability to mimic our behaviour.

This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River.

Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals’ fishing lines.

The image is part of a series taken for a new book, The Thinkers Of The Jungle, which also includes the first photograph of an orangutan swimming.

Thinkers Of The Jungle, by Gerd Schuster, Willie Smits and Jay Ullal, is published by Ullmann Publishing on May 5.

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1 year ago – TM sullen, gardening, ohio offer, heroes, rpg supers, free software

2 years ago – plazes, car accident, mustache finger tattoos, bibliochaise, rush arrested, barking kitty, orbit cam, Guten Drudennacht! Time for der Hexen-Orgie!, greathatsby

3 years ago – Hitchhiker’s, Dr. Who, Dont Cry Kitty, torrents, ebay victory, front pages, walkies pix, key/class quiz

4 years ago – Drudennacht (Walpurgisnacht), email dopes, gmail auction, gamedevelopers, Mod a disposable cam into a stun-gun, Chickens like to eat scorpions, T2 espanol question

5 years ago – Where the hell meme, boobah, timetable entry, tripped and went to the hospital on my back, slow trip home

6 years ago – a day in the life doodle, Osbournes, Chupa/tia fight, Star Map (Awesome! I forgot about this!), give bro some DVD-fu, broken pic links I have to fix

7 years ago – music confession, bug farts, fiction, wrote a encryption toy for CEJ and me to chit chat, underwear poll, AL Amarjan Slang, McCafe, lederhosen,SOP – “you forgot the gravy”