Blogger Bob McCarthy writes about a magician who has been told that he he has to have a written disaster plan for the rabbit that he uses in his performances.  By July 29th, the magician, Marty Hahne, has to have a written disaster plan in place “detailing all the steps I would take to help get my rabbit through a disaster, such as a tornado, fire, flood, etc. They not only want to know how I will protect my rabbit during a disaster, but also what I will do after the disaster, to make sure my rabbit gets cared for properly.”

I started to write something starting with the overused, “It never fails to amaze me….”  However, unfortunately, when I stop and think about it, this doesn’t really surprise me at all.

That’s what is sad.

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Stupid Regulations #1

Bear Tooth Highway, just east of junction with Chief Joseph Highway, Wyoming , August 30, 2007

The photo was used in the following video.  (It can also be viewed on YouTube.)

1896 Africa Expedition
Hand colored glass lantern slide images from The Field Museum Library, Chicago, Illinois.
Expedition participants: D.G. Elliot and Carl Akeley
Purpose or aims: Zoology Mammals

Young cheetah growling at camera, teeth bared; Hand-colored glass lantern slide
Location: Africa, Somalia
(image at flickr)

Camp, three tents with expedition members inside. 1896.
Africa, Somalia, Laferuk
(image at flickr)

Malta, view of city. 1896.
(image at flickr)

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Toad Suck Daze (Days), Conway, Arkansas, May 5, 2007

1000 words #11

Pulaski County Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge aka Big Dam Bridge
April 28, 2007, upstream of Little Rock, Arkansas.

1000 words #10

Home, April 26, 2007 – Hummingbird approaching feeder.

1000 words #9

Grand View Rim Trail, Canyondlands National Park, Utah, September 25, 2011

The photo was used in the following video.  (It can also be viewed on YouTube.)

Messenger or postman delivering the mail clasped in the end of a split bamboo pole. Japan, around 1868-1895.
[translated part of info at flickr using Google Translator: Circa 1868-1874. Photo, hand colored, of a series of 42 prints in the collection of Spaarnestad Photo, written by Felice Beato, Kusakabe Kimbei or Baron Raimund von Stillfried.]
Image from the National Archive, Netherlands (image at flickr)

Hikyaku – were couriers or messengers active in the medieval and early modern periods, who transported currency, letters, packages, and the like.

Settlement at the Dee River crossing, Mount Morgan district, ca.1895; Dee River crossing situated between Mount Morgan and the mine. Photo by Jens Hansen Lundager; Lundager’s Album of Postcards, hand coloured; postcard in collection at John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

The wharf, Naples, Italy; ca. 1890 – 1900; photomechanical print : photochrom, color; Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
Library of Congress Photochrom print collection image.