{"id":42,"date":"2016-06-26T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2016\/06\/26\/slime-mold-and-battle-bugs\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:12:18","slug":"slime-mold-and-battle-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/slime-mold-and-battle-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Slime mold and Battle Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Guess \u2018who\u2019 moved into the neighborhood:<\/div>\n
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A pair of barn owls<\/a> had a pair babies this spring, so we now see one of them fairly often:<\/div>\n
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They normally sing the fun and familiar \u2018who cooks for you\u2019 song, but at night they occasionally make a really scary jungle monkey sound. At least we hope that is them making those sounds.<\/div>\n
The hope is they are not big enough to carry of little doggies. Just in case, we have instructed the fat Buddha to act as doggy\u2019s bodyguard:<\/div>\n
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If that doesn\u2019t work, we can use this. Believe it or not, this is a fully functional flare gun:<\/div>\n
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This is where you should fire it \u2026 outside. It sends a bright flare 100 feet into the sky:<\/div>\n
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This is where you should NOT fire it:<\/div>\n
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It is surprisingly easy to fire \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
Speaking of fire, my subwoofer decided it wanted to try smoking by flaming out a transistor, to the right of that yellow transformer:<\/div>\n
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I spent a few hours replacing it:<\/div>\n
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Only to discover the transistor was not the problem. But now I know how to turn a 3 legged transistor into a 2 legged one:<\/div>\n
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Having concluded that a 2 legged transistor is not too useful, I got a new subwoofer. While I was at it, I now had an excuse to upgrade our TV audio into a 3rd dimension. Those 2 speakers 15′ up are to play a new audio format called Dolby Atmos:<\/div>\n
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In other projects, we gave doggy got a summer hair cut:<\/div>\n
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This him trying to look noble while someone fiddles with his butt hair:<\/div>\n
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I found a 6″ yellow puddle on one of our new trails. Looked like one of the owls ate a fleet of canaries and pooped them out, paintball style. But the next day it collected itself into a 1″ marshmallow like blob:<\/div>\n
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Pretty sure it was slime mold<\/a>, something that has been around about 1 billion years, predating plants and animals.<\/div>\n
That is over 3 times older than these guys ancestors:<\/div>\n
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Time for Battle Bugs! Who will win?<\/div>\n
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The 1\/16″ little black \u2018sugar\u2019 ant wins!<\/div>\n
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Goes to show you size is not always the most important factor. Being not dead helps.<\/div>\n
My close relationship with the insects have attracted this guy\u2019s attention:<\/div>\n
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He is keeping a close eye on me:<\/div>\n
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Closing out with a link to my latest home automation project:<\/div>\n
MisterHouse Home Automation<\/span>
Any guesses as to why we have this mini Wall-e in our kitchen? Or why we are providing the carpenter bees in our tree\u2026<\/span>misterhouse.blogspot.com<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
Bruce<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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