Once in a blue mood

These Fresno Nightcrawler legs were made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do, one of these days these Fresno Nightcrawler legs are gonna walk all over YOU 🫵

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Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!

and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.

hes super good at this now

is this my most tigerously scary pose??!!! dont be afraid. it will be okay.

SQQ: first, i did not look at her in a mean way i was just looking at her like this and-

LBH: *distressed dog sounds*

SQQ: .... girls why did i get married...

LBH: *distressed gremlin sounds increase*

Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

This cicada does not have a common name in English.

Yan Wushi and Shen Qiao! 🥰

I love this scene so much in the book and it's an amazing and very accurate art! 🥰❤🥰