Picture Notes

I’m not sure why I like giant fiberglass farm animals, except they are fun. Here is another view of a Holstein Cow from North Dakota, billed as the largest cow in the world, photographed with an iphone. It’s so big they had to wire it to the ground. I posted the other end of it a few days ago. It would be a pretty funny dinosaur movie, like the ones where people walk with the dinosaurs, if they included one or two large cows among the T.Rex or other extinct Raptors. There’s a site dedicated to movie mistakes. I don’t “get” many of the mistakes they write about. These are fiction films, for the most part (art), and how can there be mistakes in fiction films except for mistakes in continuity which are really technical production errors (microphones in the shot, errant shadows and things changing without a visual or audio explanation.) I wonder how people who track these fiction film errors do on the metro train when the conductor announces the wrong station.

I just reread my last post about the gas prices and I’m not so sure there are any smart people left in America who want to make a difference, it seems like corporations which serve their own self interest control everything, even the government. There may be a few companies trying to make a difference but the captains of industry have a more compelling argument (ie. more cash) for hiring and keeping really smart people.

Sleeping on the Docks

If you are a large tasty animal and there are larger animals where you live that will kill and eat you, a safe harbor is exactly what you need: A place to rest and relax and talk to your friends and family - a home. And a place to be alone if that’s what you want.

These California Sea Lions seem to have it made - they live in San Francisco on the bay and don’t pay taxes, or rent and they get to wear fur coats and still be Californians, like movie stars. They don’t even have to buy food. The life seems idyllic except that when they go back in the water there are some very large Great White Sharks that think of them as food. It would be fun to say it’s like being a human at work, except it isn’t.

There are nice articles on the Pier 39 Sea Lions on the web and if you google them you will see that they are larger than most of us and swim much better.