WordPress is confusing, part one.

I finally managed to post a video from youtube… exactly as I used to do in blogspot.

Still have no idea why it didn’t work at first… Gremlins, may be?

On another topic, I saw two days ago Bee Movie, and to be quite frank, I didn’t like it. The acting is OK, the technical part too. Unfortunately, this movies gets the crown for most biologically confusing movie ever. if there only was such an Oscar. Just checked, there isn’t. Too bad.

Really though, I can forgive the fact that within the hive bees are made to live in suburbs kind of housing, with swimming pool full of honey(!), cars and such… I can understand a metaphore when I see one.

I can forget picturing the hive itself as a factory, for the same reason…

I even enjoyed the suing action brought by the little guy to get back the honey ’stolen’ by the humans…

But… When the honey is pumped in and all bees get lazy and stop working, and pollinating, the whole world become grey and all plants die suddenly, as if pollination was some kind of magic the bees perform to keep everything in balance.

The absurdity is finally topped up by the dynamic duo going to the rescue of the world by using the few residual pollen grains (from roses, come out from GOD knows where) to repollinate indiscriminately any vegetable species they happen to come around… urgh!!!

I know I know it’s a kid cartoons, but so were “A bug’s life” and “Antz“. And they both were much better at painting insects’ life…

Frankly, I am disappointed by DreamWorks recent forays in the animation realm… Did they loose the magic touch after Shrek?

Yesterday instead, I awarded my own 8+ to Les Poupées russes, for its light hearted humour and very nice montage…

Tonight  the lady is at work so may be I’ll blast “The Host“, or may be something else. who knows?

Enough. Gufo is off.

First post on WordPress!

I went looking for pictures of Disney’s “The Sword in the Stone” movie to grab the Owl from there, and found this:

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I love this movie!!! Gotta find it somewhere online. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen it in original language…

(can’t understand how to post youtube content in this wretched site – well, just go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT6Lez_Ck7c&feature=related)

Of Mouses, and Moles…

After coming back from Rwanda, I was greetend by the discovery of a teeny tiny mouse in the house. She (as I assessed) had spent some two weeks eating her way through the bread my GF left in a basket, and making a cosy nest inside one of my oven gloves, by using the other one as source of fluffy bits…

I gently caught it with a towel, swiftly checked whether it was male or female, then let it out in the garden after he swore he would not enter the premises again.

Now, only weeks after, I have moles in my garden, poking their little volcano-like mounds of grounds here and there, under my watchful eye. They do not seem scared of me, so they keep pushing ground out even if I stand directly over the mound. Unfortunately, I can not catch them wit the camera, which is a pity since I have never seen one in my life – I don’t think they are common in Sardinia, or may be they aren’t there at all. Here’s a piccie of them: aren’t they cute critters?

Now I am on the lookout for a human way top get them out of there, not because I mind them (actually, quite the opposite) but I know the neighbors may and could resort to poison (but on which bait? what do moles eat? worms and/or tubers I guess?) Even worst, somebody may decide to cruelly drown them by sticking a hose pipe in their holes…

LolCats!!!

I discovered yesterday this fantastic internet phenomenon of taking pictures of animals and adding funny caption to them, most often in a degenerate, gangster-rapper-like form of English language.

Here’s one example:

It has been hard to get back to work after seeing the first few, yesterday.
In between the piccies I also found a funny movie posted on youtube:

So go here for moar funny pictures.

Octopus loves Mr Potato

Here’s a new one. I have always been trying to convince people that octopuses are very advanced creatures in terms of ‘braininess’. That it really isn’t a good thing to fish them out of the water and kill them bashing them on a rock, or even worse biting their heads while still alive, as my gilrfriend saw with horror in a beach in Sardinia (no picture of the event, unfortunately).

And now, I discover they can get emotionally attached to puppets, just like a six-year old boy. In the picture, an octopus who was given a Mr Potato toy some months ago, and has been defending it since then. Differently from me, the octopus must have liked the new Transformers movie, since the puppet is in fact OptiMash Prime, Mr Potato version of the Autobot’s chief in command. Who would have thought that an 18-wheeler would need protection from a Kraken?

Does eco-tourism disturb Gorillas?

So, here’s the fact: I am going to Rwanda (Yes, we know, Luca) next week, and once there my GF’s family wants to take me to see the gorillas.

Now I understand that it’s nice they’re making a conservation effort, so that even if the thing is expensive (500US$/person) it’s better than local people shooting the primates for food then clearing the forest for coffee.

But, as far as I understand it, Gorillas are a very shy kind of primates, and may possibly be ennoyed by the continuous stream of tourist, how much concealed they are…

I’d personally go and look at other primates, Chimps in primis as they seem much more active and humans. And I don’t know why, but I believe they may suffer less from the human interaction.

So I ask to the primatologists between you, should I stay or should I go? What is your take?