My TO DO List (todo.shtml) | Updated: 15-Aug-2008 - 16:02
A satin Bower bird
(male) above
TOTALLY random stuff I've collected on the web and doesn't have a place in the jazz guitar, ukulele or main publishing pages on the site.
I remember seeing a this bird on TV years ago. And, it stuck with me. Some of the strangest things get into ones's long term memory. Good for Trivial Pursuit but not much more.
Just like the Bower bird that collects a variety of objects like shells, leaves, flowers, feathers, stones, berries, and even discarded plastic items. A bower's U-shaped nest, a structure of sticks and leaves can include hundreds of these objects. The bird will spend hours carefully sorting and arranging his collection, with each thing in a specific place.
All of this to attract the female Bower bird. The things we do!!!
A Few Links
- The Bowerbird's Dilemma cartoon-style treatment of bower building.
- PBS Nature: Bower Bird Blues
- PBS Nova: Flying Casanovas
- Bowerbird videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Learn several foreign languages:
- Spanish
21 nations use Spanish as their primary language. Spanish is also one of six official languages of the United Nations.
- Chinese
About one-fifth of the world's population, or over 1 billion people, speak some form of Chinese as their native language.
Mandarin is the most widely spoken of all Chinese languages/dialects and is used by upwards of 720 million people in China, or 70 percent of the population of China (Grimes 1992)
There is also an official romanization called Pinyin
天外有天, 人外有人
Literal Translation : There is a sky beyond the sky and there is a person beyond another person.
Meaning : There will always be a higher level to achieve and there will always be someone who is better (at something). - Japanese is a language spoken by over 130 million people.
- Probally should get better at English as well ;-)
English is a West Germanic language originating in England, and the first language for most people in Australia, Canada, the Commonwealth Caribbean, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America (also commonly known as the Anglosphere). It is used extensively as a second language and as an official language throughout the world, especially in Commonwealth countries and in many international organizations.
- Spanish
- Visit Alaska again and Hawaii for the first time
- Be able to go without a car or have a fill up last several weeks.
- Get back into top of my age group racewalking shape
- Do some cartooning
- Build some ukuleles
- Visit Califorinia again
- Take several months off an drive around to USA. This happens if I don't do the "go without a car"
- Take August off every year. OR - take the year off every August.
- Collect more information from the web. Like this on Daylight Saving Time. Fill my head with more even more information.
TO DO (todo.shtml) | Updated: 2008 Aug 15 - 16:02
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