Caught Another Possum, This Time "Playing Possum"

Its been 15 months since I last trapped a possum; in 2013 I trapped three at our house and one at a neighbor's place. And a few have passed through mooching on the outside cats' food, but I wasn't able to trap them and they moved on.

But another one showed up last week and Saturday night I trapped him - photos after the jump ...

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Protest Banner, with U.S. Code (Mis-) Citation

I saw these hand-made banners riding my bike around before Mardi Gras:

Looking closer, I noticed a U.S. Code citation - how helpful! But there is no 8 U.S. Code 1234a! But Googling that, it was probably supposed to be a cite to: 8 U.S. 

Code § 1324a - Unlawful employment of aliens 

And now, looking at my close-up of the first sign:




I see what looks like a docket number, but I can't make out the numbers - will have to go by again and see if these are still there.
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2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season Post-Mortem

The 2014 season ended last week and it was even quieter than the 2013 season, with the “fewest tropical cyclones and fewest named storms since 1997” (see Weather.Com).And, now for nine years running, no Category 3 storm or greater making landfall on the U.S., despite the Washington Post's breathless anticipation that 2014 might be the year that this "record streak" would be broken! (Sorry, WaPo, but thanks for the nice graphs!)

Anyway, after the jump is my updated graph of the 2014 Colorado State University predictions and what actually happened.


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Don't Remember that Plot Point

Looking for books on the French law of successions and this came up on Worldcat:



I don't remember that part of the movie from when I was a kid. Don't think the professor needs this.
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New York Times: One Letter, One Hell of Typo

Reading yesterday’s New York Times - in print - this sentence caught my eye:



Wait, why was someone protesting “the Church of Scientology for the Killing of Michael Brown in Fergeson, Mo.” ?

Of course, it’s a typo, but a hell of a typo: that same article on-line now reads:



"For" vs "or" - a single letter makes a big difference. The online version also has a correction statement apologizing for the error; the print version, as of this morning, did not.

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