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  1. Sunbird
    When you start mentally associating the Hindu Festival of Colors with Hallandren.
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    @AngelEy3 Now that StrikerEZ has added spoiler tags, you should probably delete the spoilers from your quoted post since they're still showing. Kinda defeats the purpose of spoiler tags otherwise.
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    Here, enjoy some pretty springtime flowers I photographed this morning
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    *hugs*
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    I loved The Aeronaut's Windlass! Having also read the Codex Alera and the Dresden Files, I think it's Jim Butcher's best book yet. Yeah, Shakespeare! *fist bump* No joke, for one of my final exams a year ago, I wrote and recited from memory a sonnet eulogizing Ophelia from Hamlet. Sonnet for Ophelia
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    This whole exchange reminds me of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure: (Skip to 1:01 in this video)
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    @A Budgie Re: status updates, there is an option somewhere in your account settings that says "Enable status updates," and I have a feeling that might explain why you can't post if the box is unchecked.
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    @Ammanas yup, it's on my list. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. XD
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    @Darkness Ascendant Those photos are AMAZING.
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    Oh man, you're missing out on some really good self-published books. The first and most important one that comes to my mind is Nice Dragons Finish Last and the rest of the Heartstrikers series by Rachel Aaron. She self-publishes them, but that doesn't stop the books from being truly outstanding. I've given 5-star ratings to all three that've been released so far and taken the time to write an in-depth review for each one. I don't do that for just any book, only the ones I really love.
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    Yes, @Oversleep, do tell.
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    @A Budgieone way to access it is from the profile of anyone who's ever "won the day": you click that little banner and it'll take you to the rankings from that day, and from there you can go to "top users" which shows people's counts for upvotes and posts.
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    I've been exploring the new Leaderboard feature, and after looking at the Top Members section, I've determined that Brandon has the highest upvote-to-post ratio of anyone on the site. Although his rep count puts him in 8th place in terms of straight quantity with 5237 upvotes, he's only made 332 posts, which means each of his posts has garnered, on average, about 15.77 upvotes. Other people with high upvote-to-post ratios include Slater with 5.69 upvotes per post, Peter Ahlstrom with 5.39 upvotes per post, and Sheep with 5.09 upvotes per post. Currently my posts average 0.69 upvotes each. XD
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    I have become a Rambleman... Can I petition to get my rank changed to Ramblewoman? Also, every time I look at my rank now, I'm reminded of this song:
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    Just started Witchy Eye by DJ Butler, which promises to be an interesting ride. From the blurb and the author's own description, it sounds like part flintlock fantasy and part alternate American history, so I'm sort of expecting a cross between Brian McClellan's Powder Mage books and Lincoln's Wizard by Tracy Hickman and Dan Willis.
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    I would totally donate to a tuba busker.
  18. Sunbird
    *hugs* Would cute photos of Lil Bub also help?
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    Hahaha. I think @Mestiv and @Chaos will either laugh or cringe at this (or possibly both):
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    Congrats, Twi!
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    LOL, I've heard stories about the Australian attitude toward ibises. Apparently tourists come over from the US or England or wherever and "ooh" and "ahh" at the ibises and the locals are just like, "Whatever, those birds are everywhere." Am I right? Do the guinea fowl you usually see look like this? I took that photo yesterday as I was heading home from my birding excursion. It's a Helmeted Guinea-fowl; some people in the USA keep them on farms, but they're not native to North America.
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    Yeah, I definitely see coots a lot more often than moorhens. There were probably several hundred of them on Utah Lake yesterday, spread out across various areas.
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    @A Budgie Close! Moorhens are closely related to the little guy in my grebe photo. Mine is called an American Coot, and the only visible difference between the two when you see them swimming like that is their bill colors: on a moorhen, it's red, but on a coot, it's white. Well okay, on the moorhens I've seen in the US, the bill is red. Other countries and continents may have other kinds of moorhens with other colors of bills.
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    Found a bunch more cool birbs on Saturday! (Yes, I misspelled that intentionally.) I took 275 photos and kept more than 50 of them, but it's late, so here are just a few of the very best pictures from my trip. Black-necked Stilt (aptly named; you'll see why): Clark's Grebe (the larger bird on the right): Swainson's Hawk (It was screaming at me in this picture): Western Meadowlark: I had never seen a Swainson's Hawk or a Clark's Grebe until today, so I'm thrilled that I got identifiable photos of them both.
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    It's funny because this bird's species name is really a Sandwich Tern. XD
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