That's right, we're finally there. Today is Interntional Talk Like a Pirate Day. We've waited all year for this, and finally the glorious appearing is upon us. Don't forget - this is the only chance you'll have for a year. Okay, you can talk like a pirate anytime. But this is the only day where it's official that you ought to talk like a pirate. Arr!
Perusing the paper today, I came across an article about a newly discovered rodent fossil. Nothing particularly special in finding a rodent fossil, I thought at first. Until I read the article. Seems that researchers in Venezuela have discovered the remains of a rodent that may have weighed 1500 pounds or more. Holy cow. Find that as roadkill and your family eats for months.
It seems that everything was bigger and meaner back then. Six to eight million years ago, not only was there the giant guinea pig, but crocodiles grew to more than 33 feet long. There was apparently a large carnivore called a marsupial cat. If that's not enough, there were also allegedly giant flesh-eating birds called phorracoids. Good thing Raquel didn't come along until a few million years later. She would've been toast.
I also can now understand why cats are so determined to get the mouse. If the rodents used to be hundreds of times your size, it only makes sense to get after them once they've shrunk down to the size we see today. I'd make the most of that opportunity too. No telling when mother nature might turn her back on you again.
Anyway, apparently this herbivore singlehandedly turned what was once a forested and swampy area into a semidesert. Okay, I made up that last part. But a rodent that big is going to eat a lot of vegetation. It could have happened that way.
Why do pirates like Charles Dickens? Marrley's ghost, of course!
Why do pirates like opera? The Arrias!
Why do pirates like opera singers? The singers can really handle the high seas!
Why couldn't the young boy get into the movie? It was rated Arr!
I've got another incremental update to MT-SomeDays.
This version takes full advantage of the current date context if used within a date-based archive. For instance, if the <MTSomeDays> container is placed on a weekly archive, then that week is, by default, the one that is returned. You can override this behavior by use of the date-setting and selecting attributes.
I have got to stop reading the Movable Type support forums. Too many enhancement ideas!
MT-SomeDays 3.0.0 introduces multiple blog support. Now you can include the contents of another blog, or the contents of multiple blogs, in your <MTSomeDays> container by using a new attribute.
