Okay, so Diego’s a female.
We counted eight abdominal segments when Diego was a nymph, so we took a risk and named it a him even though we knew that we could really only tell when it reached maturity. We also knew that creatures should be its, but it’s got too much character to be called [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
The mantid Diego I
Stumped by a name
Clinic staff [over the phone]: Can I have your name?
Me: Xxxxxx Xxx. Xxx is my last name, X-x-x.
Clinic staff: Chinese name?
Me: Um, Xxx is my surname…
Clinic staff: What is your full name?
Me: Xxxxxx Xxx is my full name.
Clinic staff: What is your Chinese name?
Me: It’s not in my full name.
Clinic staff: If I call you [...]
Simplicity
How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn’t care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
~ Emily Dickinson
Earless agamid at Venus Drive
A very pretty male with blue irises:
More photos here.
Night macro at Lower Pierce
Marbled forest gecko
Close-up
House centipede
Stick insect
Fulgoroid planthopper nymphs with ‘fibre-optic’ tails
Chatterbrain
I keep hearing voices in my head. Not the schizophenic sort! but more like silent monologues, if you will. I’d be an observer to a scene or an earwitness to a conversation and the dialogue would just fade out and there’d go my voice, like a scripted voice-over in documentary, providing a running conceptual abstract [...]
Being true to oneself
I am not so much worried about how I am in the minds of other men as how I am to myself. I want to be enriched by me not by borrowings from others. Those outside us only see events and external appearances… They do not see my mind: they only see the looks on [...]
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Why I collect
Aside from pins and badges, I have a fetish for collecting dead creatures. Arthropods, mainly, and the odd vertebrate, stink though they may. I love being able to examine them up close, at all angles, an otherwise impossible task were they alive. Likewise with the exuviae, my containers of exoskeletons and skins, and zip-lock pouches [...]
