T w e n t y S i d e d
Since yesterday, I’ve seen links appear from The Rodent’s Burrow, Rodent Household, The Magic Rat, and Larry the Lab Rat. Strange.
Now I forget: Are badgers and ferrets considered rodents?
At any rate, I’m glad this blog is so popular among our rodent friends. Next up, I’m planning an ad campaign to increase readership among waterfowl, which has been lacking.
Also, the above-linked Rodent’s Burrow has “My dice are trying to kill me!” t-shirts. Nifty.
Batman: Arkham City
A look back at one of my favorite games. The gameplay was stellar, but the underlying story was clumsy and oddly constructed.
This Scene Breaks a Character
Small changes to the animations can have a huge impact on how the audience interprets a scene.
Gamers Aren’t Toxic
This is a horrible narrative that undermines the hobby through crass stereotypes. The hobby is vast, gamers come from all walks of life, and you shouldn't judge ANY group by its worst members.
The Best of 2017
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2017.
Dear Hollywood: Do a Mash Reboot
Since we're rebooting everything, MASH will probably come up eventually. Here are some casting suggestions.
Well, I’m here to represent the genus Apteryx, of the order Struthioniformes,(that is, kiwi birds)!
Waterfowl, you say? Why, I can help with that!
(I should’ve added you to my “blogroll” long before now, but I’ve been utterly damned lazy on the website maintenance front. That oversight is now remedied.)
Badgers and ferrets are mustelids, not rodents.
What, GreyDuck and I aren’t good enough for you, Shamus? Have to import other anatidae?
(please note, I have no blogroll, though I probably should…)
Ferrets are mice-eating carnivores and working ferrets were used to clean out grain silos of mice. Nearsighted (older) ferrets may bite bare toes because they look and move like baby mice.
Like Don and Michael said, we’re carnivores. If God didn’t mean for us to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
Long live rodents! Keep up the daily fodder and rats will gather…
Hey, I’m a water … oh, *fowl*
Now here’s an odd bit of trivia. Rodents and equids are more closely related to primates than they are to artiodactyls (even toed hooved mammals). But carnivores are more closely related to artiodactyls than they are primates. That is, carnivora evolved from the common ancestor of cattle sometime after the common ancestor of the primate/rodent/equine lines evolved from a common ancestor of the carnivore/artiodactyl lines.