Between this and helping him off my lap, I’d like to think I trained George to jump.

I am greatly amused by how fitting the avatars generated for my commentators tend to be.  The girls get “prettier” ones and the guys get more bold ones (not to gender stereotype, but personality-wise these people tend to fit those profiles).  If you want to see what yours is, just comment on my blog and the little square picture that shows up is your avatar.  If you see a picture, that means you created a Gravatar, so you’d either have to comment using an email different from your Gravatar, or go deactivate your picture for a bit to see what would have been generated for you.

I don’t know what type of algorithm is used to translate an email address into an avatar and it’s probably completely random, but I do feel that you’ll like get an image that you like and/or seems fitting for you.  Perhaps it’s all my imagination, but I can’t help but think that!  If you don’t believe me, try it for yourself and see what you think!  The style I chose is called “Identicon” and all images are single-colored geometric patterns.  There’s also a set called “Wavatar” and another called “MonsterID” – the former I’m not very familiar with and seems to be little geometric creatures, while the latter is a bunch of fun little monster cartoons.

Go ahead, give it a try and let me know if you like what you get!  :)

Taking a tour outside Bangkok and it’s time for lunch on the river, literally!

Then we zoomed upriver to the bamboo rafts awaiting us.

This looked like a fun party!

And a peaceful ride back down to our floating restaurant/hotel.

Sometimes I like to sit outside and eat my Quizno’s, with the traffic on Sepulveda whizzing by.  And every time that happens, curious and hungry birds are there, waiting for me to share some of my food.  These two were particularly bold in demanding I feed them!

He sat across from me, carefully watching for his potential lunch.

A bit of a model, eh? Check out the classic over-the-shoulder glance. Perhaps he was trying to impress me so I'd feed him.

I decided to share some of my bread and he nearly got within arm's length.

He made it very clear what he was waiting for. Quite persistent!

Haha, this amused me so greatly.  Check out how the pigeons rock back and forth as they try to stay on that unstable wire.

Well, that’s the first time I’ve seen them done like that!

Been a long day, so a quick post for now…

I showed it in my video awhile ago; now here is a picture for posterity.  The wonderful cut I got from Panda.  :-P

At the Singapore Bird Park, there were quite the variety of birds to see! From frolicking penguins to macaws “making out” to upside-down parrots, it was quite the adventure.