19 Tevet/5 January, 2010
Jan. 5th, 2010 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyFinally ventured outside for a bit to visit a cemetery (it would have been babushka’s birthday – well, possible birthday, since she grew up in an orphanage and couldn’t remember her actual birthday, it was an estimation and a name day) and go to the Russian store for food with Mama. She finally got a case tomorrow and is going to work which will be nice.
“American Gods” stalled a bit after page 150 – I’m just too distracted to read. I still like it and look forward to it but unlike the very beginning where I didn’t want to stop reading, I’m a bit slower now. Maybe I just want to stretch it out. But then I do want to get to “Dune” soon. Maybe it is this particular segment.
“Planet Earth” was a BBC documentary series that aired on Discovery Channel a few years ago. And even as we have Discovery Channel in HD I missed it when this was on TV and I finally got around to it on Netflix. It is 11 hour series and I’m watching the British version narrated by David Attenborough. (The way British say ‘bears’ always amuses me) Memorable and interesting things from episodes include:
In “From Pole to Pole” – a tropical bird mating dance and really weird feather patterns, African water gatherings and polar bear cubs in the Arctic and big animal migrations and also a shark hunting seal in slow speed (the last I even rewound) and in “Mountains”- avalanche, Ethiopian mountain monkeys, creaking glacier and snow leopards.
This whole show reminds me how much I liked Earth Science, zoology and geography in school. In every show so far, for every environment, they show predators and a hunt, emphasizing the precariousness of it all, plus hunts are exciting on camera. And most predators focus their hunt on young animals, since they are easier to get. I like how at the end of each program they show how people got the shots whether using aerial helicopter photography and ground crew for ten days to get a wild dog vs impala hunt in Africa or sending a cameraman to Himalayas to get footage of snow leopard. (It took them three years overall to get this footage) This guys sits there six hours a day with a camera pointing just waiting for any movement. As he calls it: “tedious” work. The guy waited seven weeks like this for any footage. Wow. I guess he likes the solitude and has lots of patience. And when crews moved to a different location they had to wait because of political situation since they needed Pakistan mountains on Afghanistan’s border. Snow leopard are not making it easy for the BBC.
Something up with the internet servers. Some pages load easily and others refuse and some only on more tries. I don’t think it is my computer because I was trying on Firefox and the Explorer and both are doing it. It is probably the internet provider. I can get to Whedonesque but not at Mugglenet. Weird.
“American Gods” stalled a bit after page 150 – I’m just too distracted to read. I still like it and look forward to it but unlike the very beginning where I didn’t want to stop reading, I’m a bit slower now. Maybe I just want to stretch it out. But then I do want to get to “Dune” soon. Maybe it is this particular segment.
“Planet Earth” was a BBC documentary series that aired on Discovery Channel a few years ago. And even as we have Discovery Channel in HD I missed it when this was on TV and I finally got around to it on Netflix. It is 11 hour series and I’m watching the British version narrated by David Attenborough. (The way British say ‘bears’ always amuses me) Memorable and interesting things from episodes include:
In “From Pole to Pole” – a tropical bird mating dance and really weird feather patterns, African water gatherings and polar bear cubs in the Arctic and big animal migrations and also a shark hunting seal in slow speed (the last I even rewound) and in “Mountains”- avalanche, Ethiopian mountain monkeys, creaking glacier and snow leopards.
This whole show reminds me how much I liked Earth Science, zoology and geography in school. In every show so far, for every environment, they show predators and a hunt, emphasizing the precariousness of it all, plus hunts are exciting on camera. And most predators focus their hunt on young animals, since they are easier to get. I like how at the end of each program they show how people got the shots whether using aerial helicopter photography and ground crew for ten days to get a wild dog vs impala hunt in Africa or sending a cameraman to Himalayas to get footage of snow leopard. (It took them three years overall to get this footage) This guys sits there six hours a day with a camera pointing just waiting for any movement. As he calls it: “tedious” work. The guy waited seven weeks like this for any footage. Wow. I guess he likes the solitude and has lots of patience. And when crews moved to a different location they had to wait because of political situation since they needed Pakistan mountains on Afghanistan’s border. Snow leopard are not making it easy for the BBC.
Something up with the internet servers. Some pages load easily and others refuse and some only on more tries. I don’t think it is my computer because I was trying on Firefox and the Explorer and both are doing it. It is probably the internet provider. I can get to Whedonesque but not at Mugglenet. Weird.
