Tiny Little Life

Next up is this bumblebee that I caught crawling into flowers.
Mmmm. Pollen.

Then, it turned and flew to another.
Mmmm. Pollenation.

Pruning plants means finding bugs. Don’t question it!
First one was a treehopper- type insect.
This one looks like it’s trying to pass for a thorn or some such. From the top, it does a pretty good job of blending in.

From the side you can see better (check out those eyes). I’m not sure […]

I just did 216 cpm, 13% error rate. Its weird, because I feel like I’m doing worse now then before… I have no problem hitting the keys when I’m copying text, but typing while I think of new text is much slower.
Worst keys: k b y f d i (basically the index fingers).

ok. ok. ok. Wait for it.
I wrote a function that lets you validate your php pages using the w3.org validator… server side in only 6 lines of php.

function w3saysPageIsValid($url)
{
if (strpos($_SERVER[’REMOTE_HOST’], “w3.org”))
return true; //just abort!!! infinite loops are bad!!!
$dom = […]

Are these marking supposed to look like eyes? Or a face? I’m not sure what this spider is trying to pull off.
This was one of those days where the first shot you take turns out to be the only good one. On the other hand, I’m really pleasantly surprised by how well […]

I contemplated posting this picture for a long while. I thought really hard about whether it was worth posting or just the least out of focus shot I had of some bug that even I dont find terribly interesting.
But then I went ahead and posted it anyway.

You don’t have to tell me what a […]

This is another story in pictures… Apparently this breed of spiders finds its way to water before dying (like this one, in the sink). I mean look at it… Have you ever caught a spider sleeping on its back?

It is alive…

When I first saw it, it was in the bathtub and I was […]

Yes, I know this blog is basically my fascination with small bugs and spiders. But I’d venture to guess that this is no different than the fascination with tabloids and celebrities (yeah, that realization makes me feel great).
I’m backdating this entry and a few others because I was previously too self conscious […]

I’ve slowed development on refigurator, in favor of a new project that I have more of a need for in my daily life. The name of the new program is Habit. Its a personal organizer that takes the opposite approach to the daily planner; you write down when you do things, and Habit […]

New record cpm today: 175. But, my error rate is up to 15%. I’m much faster and very accurate when doing combinations of keys, but when I have to aim for a specific (individual) key I screw it up sometimes as many as 5-7 times before getting it.
In some ways, I’m just rushing […]