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Deepest Sender!?
Jul. 5th, 2004 09:31 amSomeone (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
platofish, I think) mentioned the existence of a new (for me) LiveJournal client called Deepest Sender (with its own development web site and LJ community). The apparent major plus of the client is that it integrates with Mozilla and Firefox.
(Yet another reason to switch from IE, besides superior performance, not to mention the strong "switch" recommendation coming from CERT and the Department of Homeland Security.)
As this is my first post with DS, it's hard to give a true assessment in comparison with other clients I've used, but so far, all goes well.
Galina and I drove over to Doug and Pat H.'s place for both his birthday and the Fourth of July. The guests came from a fairly broad cross section of their acquaintances in Pagosa, including the amateur radio group, pilots, horse people, and some folks from his church. This was the second year we've been able to go, and we had a good time.
Once we got home, we watched some TV (some channel is featuring a James Bond marathon... I might check its programming to see if they are going to air On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is probably the most underrated of the Bond films despite the appearance of Diana Rigg as Bond's love interest), and promptly fell asleep.
I started the day with a walk from the store home (Galina drove me to the store as she had some chores to do). At what is normally the turnoff home, I kept on going and finished the walk as if I were walking my "round the block" route, adding perhaps a quarter of a mile to my walk. This had an interesting consequence, because upon exiting the woods behind the house, I almost stepped on an animal I had never seen before. (Indeed, had it not scurried out of my way, I very likely would have stepped on it.)
It was rust colored with darker patches on its back, had a yellow belly, was about the size of my fist, and looked a little like a toad, but with a tail that was broad at the base. The most striking characteristic of the animal was the appearance of spines along the sides of the animal and what appeared to be horns on its head.
When I sat down to Google the animal, I guessed it was a horny toad, and was almost right. Such animals are apparently more properly called horned lizards, and according to one site I found, when startled "they usually will flatten out and sit really still so as to hopefully not be seen. If this doesn't work, they have also been known to inflate their body and hiss a lot, and in extreme cases, they can even squirt blood from their eyeballs to attack predators."
I must not have bothered the critter too much, as I only got the flattening and inflation; no hissing, and definitely no blood.
Anyway, there's still a lot of paper left to chase around here, so I better get to it.
Cheers...
platofish, I think) mentioned the existence of a new (for me) LiveJournal client called Deepest Sender (with its own development web site and LJ community). The apparent major plus of the client is that it integrates with Mozilla and Firefox.(Yet another reason to switch from IE, besides superior performance, not to mention the strong "switch" recommendation coming from CERT and the Department of Homeland Security.)
As this is my first post with DS, it's hard to give a true assessment in comparison with other clients I've used, but so far, all goes well.
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Galina and I drove over to Doug and Pat H.'s place for both his birthday and the Fourth of July. The guests came from a fairly broad cross section of their acquaintances in Pagosa, including the amateur radio group, pilots, horse people, and some folks from his church. This was the second year we've been able to go, and we had a good time.
Once we got home, we watched some TV (some channel is featuring a James Bond marathon... I might check its programming to see if they are going to air On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is probably the most underrated of the Bond films despite the appearance of Diana Rigg as Bond's love interest), and promptly fell asleep.
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I started the day with a walk from the store home (Galina drove me to the store as she had some chores to do). At what is normally the turnoff home, I kept on going and finished the walk as if I were walking my "round the block" route, adding perhaps a quarter of a mile to my walk. This had an interesting consequence, because upon exiting the woods behind the house, I almost stepped on an animal I had never seen before. (Indeed, had it not scurried out of my way, I very likely would have stepped on it.)
It was rust colored with darker patches on its back, had a yellow belly, was about the size of my fist, and looked a little like a toad, but with a tail that was broad at the base. The most striking characteristic of the animal was the appearance of spines along the sides of the animal and what appeared to be horns on its head.
When I sat down to Google the animal, I guessed it was a horny toad, and was almost right. Such animals are apparently more properly called horned lizards, and according to one site I found, when startled "they usually will flatten out and sit really still so as to hopefully not be seen. If this doesn't work, they have also been known to inflate their body and hiss a lot, and in extreme cases, they can even squirt blood from their eyeballs to attack predators."
I must not have bothered the critter too much, as I only got the flattening and inflation; no hissing, and definitely no blood.
***
Anyway, there's still a lot of paper left to chase around here, so I better get to it.
Cheers...
