I was taking pictures of roseate spoonbills — regrettably, too far away to be great shots — and I turned around just in time to catch a great blue heron in a pond on the other side of the road, just as he was just in time to catch his next snack.
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Coincidence of the Week
Seth also chose this week to write about entropy.
"Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature."
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Quotes of the Week
“Only entropy comes easy.” - Anton Chekhov (c.1900); also stated by Lewis Mumford (1970)
“You should call it entropy, because nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.” - John Neumann (c.1939), suggestion to Claude Shannon on what to call his new formula for information
“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.” - Vaclav Havel (1986), Czech playwright
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What a magnificent picture!
Tom
Tom – Thanks!
Terrific !
Ralph – Thanks! I was pretty tickled.
I’m, like, WOW! Fantastic photo!
Marilyn – Many thanks.
Isabel – now the question is what is he/she snacking on?
John – A fissshy of some sort.
Great photos, Isabel, Even though some may be enhanced!
Marilyn – Thanks! Having a ball . . .
Nice catch Isabel – so many times the best picture if the one behind me…..
Jim R – Yeah. A photographer on our Scotland trip in 2012 talked about that, so I do try to remember to turn around!