Osprey drops a fish

We have been blessed with the presence of an Osprey, roosting on a dead branch high above the yard. When it first started roosting and occasionally eating up there, it only took the crows a short while to fly up there and start hassling the Osprey. Then the crows started hanging out up there - since it is a nice perch. It didn't take the Blue Jays long to fly up there and start hassling the crows. Now all the birds in the yard go up there to hang out. They never noticed it was a nice place until the Osprey showed them.

(here it has a fish)

Nowadays the Osprey waits until it is starting to get dark before returning to its roost over the yard. During the day, the crows are up there. I don't know where the crows are at night and I rarely see the Osprey take off or land.

In the morning as it starts to get light out, I see the Osprey's outline up there and then I blink and it is gone. Sometimes it comes back with a breakfast fish and eats for a while. So this morning I see it landing with a fish and dropping it into thick forest foliage. It spent around 10 minutes looking down, doing a short loop of flight, and trying to spot where the fish had fallen. Then it gave up and flew off - still wanting breakfast. But it came back, looking tired, with no fish, and is sitting there now. I don't mean to project. It could have eaten somewhere else. 

Such a beautiful bird.

Adjective Order Recapitulates Learning Order

The more I think about adjective order in terms of different "layers" of topics learned at different times during childhood development and language acquisition, the more it makes sense. For example with the "Lying Old Man" versus "Old Lying Man" there can be no doubt that these have different meanings. And that one of them ("Lying Old Man") is more natural. 

I propose this is simply because we learned the concept of "Old" before we learned the concept of "Liar". We learned the word "Liar" in a world that already had the "Old" concept. The linguistic principle we draw from this is that we speak in the same order as we learned. Or Adjective Order recapitulates Learning Order.

Binoculars and Sweet Potato

Reparations

At this point, I am thinking the US and Israel should compensate victims of the Palestinian genocide by giving them a piece of land in Somalia.

White Irises

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The long and the short of De Morgan's Laws

Well you have two mechanisms, one for selecting from a temp collection, and the rules of "not" that take  the complement within a temp collection. But this is not sets of elements, but temp collections of labels of individual narratives.

De Morgan's Law, aside from its use of the law of the excluded middle, devolves to the observation that "A or B" encompasses a full row and full column of the table. Leaving a single square as its complement.

Aside from that, negating "A or B" gives the complement: A*, B*.

Update: What is most puzzling is the transition from "A or B" to the four "cases". What is that?

At the Newark Earthworks

 We grabbed a bite.