23 August 2026

The Hooverville Hexagon: Outdoor Pursuits

 

Random Car Show

by Bluebottle

 

Some Nice Cars

 



Quote of the Day

Words of Wisdom

 

The Mississippi Kites are swooping around in the yard today. Big hatches of Cicadas and Katydids mean the buffet is on.

Pan the Reverist, Bluesky

 

Editor: On Sunday the pastor asked if all the social media competitive-lifestyle posts made people feel bad. Some people in the congregation nodded. Me, I thought: Why? I follow birders and entomologists. I get to look at puffins and weird bugs from the Amazon river basin. My motto: don't follow people who take pics of their lunch.

 

Poetry Corner

by DG

in January 49

BCE, that is

Gaius Julius Caesar

crossed the Rubicon

and went viral

 

when he did, he quoted

a trendy meme

a theatre quote

in Greek

about dice

ignorant historians

googled it into Latin

now the Latin phrase is

the meme 

go figure

sic semper.

 

Black-and-white image of a cat sitting under an Ionic column.

 Video of the Day:

Butterfly Action

Woodland Ringlet

(Erebia medusa)

(Tavaron)

 



 

Picture Puzzle

by Tavaron

 

This tree isn't dead. But what are the markings for? Answer tomorrow.

 

Tree trunk with stripped bark and hatchet cuts.

 

Kthxbai,  Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor

 

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