Do cows count? I’ve found myself unexpectedly surrounded by cows a few times…

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Red Tailed Hawk (eye level)
Jackrabbit
Orca (kayak)
Mountain Lion (at home)
Stellar’s Jay

Coyote, lynx, black & brown bear, raccoon, mule deer, elk, eagle, rat, rattlesnek, peregrine falcon, cormorant, heron, nurse shark, fox, dolphin…

Approved!

Old™️

I used to have a Very Nice motorcycle on which I would pull in the clutch and coast when I passed dogs and strollers. Now I live within earshot of a mile-long bridge that loud cars speed across at night and I realize that the bigger the road the more people a loud exhaust imposes upon. Antisocial.

Hope you brought a gas can, because they never had dinosaurs up there.

Maybe it’s of a different time to have a character that is a better version of (at least a part of) one’s self rather than a brand or marketing tool. I am, after all, old. I think this is okay and that there’s still space for me. I will die and will not leave stickers behind, but will have hugged.

As someone who is all the way furry inside but too much a coward to rep the merch in the world, it can be slower to make new connections. But precious moments still happen when I’m just my character to me and everyone. I can still be a mouse for a moment and love and be loved and eventually seen.

I NEED IT.

You could ship the Cappuccino over! :)

That is positively epic. Does it come with a parking spot, and if so what will be in it?!

It’s so lovely from a boat!

Tag yourself meme, but we are all the same one.

Holy shit, dude. I don’t think I could BIKE that.

Oh.. wait.. The FAIR is a veritable smorgasbord orgasbord orgasbord.

Life is a veritable smorgasbord orgasbord orgasbord.

I’m sure that’s coming. Seems like a lifetime ago that we’d fly people out and put them up for a few nights! Haha. Remember when candidates were treated like royalty? :)

I’ve been party to several conversations where interviewers have discussed whether or not the candidate was typing questions in to an LLM and parroting back answers. We’re designing questions that aren’t LLMable because we already have ChatGPT (should we want it) and don’t need to hire it FFS.