Month: August 2021

In front of our house. A spider web about one and a half meters in size

Printed a bottle holder on a 3D printer. Its usual place is taken by a bike lock, and such a position is much more convenient: easy to take and easy to put back. And in the place where the bottle is usually attached, I plan to install a triangular bike bag. Engineering happiness is when you invent something, and there it is, working. The first 30 km have already been covered.

It’s nice to live next to a bike trail. Went out for a 10 km ride in 20 minutes.

Photographed a wasp on a passion fruit near one of the farms nearby. The passion fruit has such an unusual, complex flower. Probably for very smart and correct bees, who are not lured by daisies and poems. I’ll attach another photo (from wiki) of the passion fruit itself. Passion fruit is tasty, but if you use your imagination, you wouldn’t even want to try it. It seems that nature was inspired by the wasp eggs in figs from my previous post.

In the wild, fig wasps climb in through this hole at the bottom of the fig to lay their eggs inside. Along the way, the wasp loses its wings because the hole is too small. Subsequently, the wasp dies inside the fig. The eggs wait for their time. Inside, a new generation of wasps begins to grow. Males fertilize the females and also die inside the fig, as they are born wingless, while the females emerge to find a new fig. By the way, a fig is essentially an inside-out flower. Wasps thereby pollinate it. We eat self-pollinating figs and only the female fruits, but you can’t explain that to the fig wasps. 🙂

Enjoy your meal, I’m going to eat this fig now

Some people get flies in their kitchen, but we had a bat. Time to sleep. Rescued, released. Pretty one

The deer was stunned for about five minutes. This video is a small “montage”. Probably his parents told him that if he doesn’t move, no one will notice him. Seems like they told our Yuki the same thing.

By the way, Yuki is very accurate at distinguishing between natural sounds and artificial sounds (no matter how similar they might seem to us), and reacts very differently to them. He instantly picks up on birds – no wonder, given his hunting breed. And deer fascinate him.

I always believed that behavior programming comes not from genes, but from upbringing. You know, the young ones observe how their mom and dad react. It seems like some stuff might actually be passed down through DNA. At least the most basic things.

Interesting video about mathematical topology. How to turn a sphere inside out without bending the surface? Excellent visualization and explanation

EPAM Global unexpectedly delighted with an unsolicited gift. I go out to walk the dog, and there’s a package at the door. With a thermos! How nice!

Yuki at our place loves to sleep the days away. Thankfully, almost the whole nights too. Especially in the morning. We joke that he got it from Lisa. But in between, at some random times of the day, he gets playful and needs the attention of the entire family all at once. We’ve already burned this off a couple of times by riding bikes – he dashes along with me on a leash until his batteries run out. In the comments – a photo of what Yuki looks like after such a “run”.