Welcome to #CheckIn for FRIDAY 2025-05-30
CHOOSE YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL OF THE DAY! What do you think would be a good spirit animal for you? What characteristics make you feel attracted to a particular animal? What behaviour do you aspire to? What do you find comforting about a particular animal? What animal would you like to be friends with if you had the opportunity? Hey, and you can have as many spirit animals as you like here!
I admire this fuzzy person for being able to sleep through the cold months!
Today’s topic is suggested by @Muse but there’s always an element of randomness. Grab your beverage preference (pixel or not), follow Wheaton’s Law and enjoy the space.
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Rather than spirit animal I'd prefer to be one that doesn't live so much in pain.
So I've decided to be re-incarnated as something invertebrate - like an octopus.
Absent that, I'd accept being a Chimera.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •@Muse I'd love to have my spirit animal too. Please 🙏
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Btw, Happy Brückentag to those who don't work today in Germany.
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Griff Ferrell
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Thinning haired, pot bellied 6 foot tall white guy doesn't have one
Not in tune enough with nature to develop and embrace a spirt
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I've also used bastet (cat) images.
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stefani banerian
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I don't do it every day, but i am now pretty certain that when i'm in the yard, one of the local crows recognizes me, and calls out. if i hear, i grab a few peanuts and put them out, and the crows show up.
i've been able to stand by and watch them, and at times pint to when i put the peanuts.
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My friends at High School called me "Griz" - mostly because of my last name. I have yet to learn how to relax.
;-}
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • •As a kid I wanted to be like a Chameleon. You know, perfectly adapting to any environment. Unsure about a spirit animal though.
Some days like those last few and then some to come I'd just identify with the simple life we are able to provide to #maltethedog - a select few hours of demanding activity per day, training, happy to work and with the walkies, and snuggle up when you wanna.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I tried giving them shiny things, in an effort to differentiate ourselves from our stupid dog who barks and chases them 😒 Shiny things were not popular. Guess I should have tried food.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •What's interesting and fun (to me) is that I wrote a c support library and used python bindings to use that c code during the "fool around and find out stage." That way I already had the well exercised c library to statically compile in with the generated code.
Generating code permits things that hand written code would be a bore to write.
For example, given function prototype:
And generated code:
After running through the 'c' pre-processor should end up something like this:
Yes I could completely bodge c_string_function() and introduce plenty of buffer overflow exploits but at least the string length will be accurate.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Like most things, though, if you leave snakes alone, they'll leave you alone (with a couple notable exceptions), because you are not their prey item.
That said, some snakes are dangerously territorial. Black mambas are rightly feared. Some constrictors, including anacondas, will also attack people.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •This is an Australian carpet python. I have met a few of these\
They live in and around carpets?
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •"They live in and around carpets?"
Sometimes they do!
Forest carpet. See how they match the carpet of leaves.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •heh, yeah... that day I moved some clutter from under a table and didn't notice the red rat snake that had made a home there 😳 stood at the table doing something for a while just inches away from it 😳😳
eagle-eyed viewers will recall that I posted it on here trying to find out if it was venomous... I was afraid to let the dogs out for a while
it eventually wandered off... with a full belly like that, I wouldn't be in a hurry to move either
sorry I bothered you, snake... thanks for the pest control
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •@Muse taken in great haste with my iPhone to explain to Mr. Stranger why my eyes got big as saucers and I said OHHHHH SHIT lol
@Karl Auerbach I have not yet met the state reptile up close... sincerely hoping the retention pond going in behind the neighbor's house is not going to change that
I have been close enough to hear them grunting in a neighborhood pond
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