hypochondriac?

$2500 for old truck

carli + little bear

little bear's garden

sunset

i love raccoons

nice shades

what the heck - make up your mind - are we going straight or right...?

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No problem - detour coming - go straight

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just your normal daily average asian people...protesting..?!

yay for psychology experiments

can you guess?

yay for incognito-ness

yay for being studious

batman on 18-wheeler

lo-rider mobile home

walk in closet

queen size bed!

my desk area - comes with a carli

other side of the kitchen

kitchen!

"dining-room area" - right now we're just storing some empty boxes there. we're afraid that if we throw out the boxes, there won't be anything left to take up space there.

doorway going into the living room

we have a laundry room!

Living room - 30 gal fishtank in the corner there

more bathroom!

bathroom!

"i thought you were gonna play thumb-war with me?!"

sleeping w/spanish - well, awake now, but i swear, the book stays...

medusa?

mug-shot:dad

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Knee-Jerk Reflex - monosynaptic & disynaptic arcs!

Reticular system - keeps you awake!

Cranial Nerves & Spinal Nerves

Thoracolumbar & Craniosacral system effectors

forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain!

Dad & Salesman...the dude wasn't so bad.

From a distance...

Sitting in Dad's New Car

High-Maintenance

California crab is 'fussy lover'

Californian fiddler crab females might be the choosiest mates in the world, Animal Behaviour journal reports.

Uca crenulata females will routinely check out 100 or more males before finally picking a mate.

Apparently, in the world of fiddler crabs, size does matter, both in terms of the male himself and his abode. "The size of a male's burrow affects the development time of his larvae," said Catherine deRivera of the University of California, US. "A burrow of just the right size allows larvae to hatch at the safest time, the peak outward night time flow of the bi-weekly tidal cycle."

Dr deRivera and her team conducted their observations in the Sweetwater River estuary in Chula Vista, south of San Diego, US.
She said previous studies of mate selection in other animals highlighted the fiddler crab's extreme pickiness.

The California fiddler crabs use a lateral wave that looks much like a human beckoning 'come here' Catherine deRivera, University of Californi
"Most animals sample just a few mates, presumably because search costs override the benefits of lengthy searches," Dr deRivera explained.

The average fiddler female, however, will inspect about 23 potential suitors and their bachelor pads before selecting a lucky winner. One especially hard to please female visited 106 male burrows, fully entering 15 of them, during her one hour and six minute search.

Male fiddler crabs attract suitors by standing in front of their burrows and waving their enlarged claws, in a motion reminiscent of a human "come hither".

"The California fiddler crabs use a lateral wave that looks much like a human beckoning 'come here'," Dr deRivera said. "It also seems to serve as a 'come hither' signal, as a male waves, standing at his burrow entrance, and interested females come over."

An approaching female will eye up the male and, if she likes what she sees, will partially or fully enter the burrow to size it up.
"The burrow openings, which are circular, are just big enough for the owners to get in," Dr deRivera said. "Crabs enter burrows sideways so have to fit in front to back and top to bottom."

When a female has found a suitor to her taste, either she or the male will plug up the opening of the burrow and the couple will mate and incubate their eggs. Later these hatch and release tiny larvae that are quickly flushed from the estuary by high night tides.

Dr deRivera also found that the largest females were the least picky, primarily because they could not fit into most of the burrows they visited. Therefore they were forced to choose one of the limited number of males with "super-size" burrows.