Recent content by The Strategos

I grew up in a place where the nearest town has a confederate monument. The monument is protected by state law (unless said law has been repealed without my knowledge) which states that only the NC legislature has the power to remove any memorial. It stands in front of the county courthouse...

Yeah I'll bump this.

Common Missile Baby Warthogs Bushbuck

I think this is a desert rose Cloudless Sulphur Bushbuck

I fail to see how saying that rather than being united in a Platonic ideal "NES," NESes are united in a family resemblance (ala Wittgenstein) leads to the conclusion that 1) It is only a social club and 2) that because it does not have a Platonic ideal definition the activity is therefore...

The downfall of NESing was never caused by some existential failure to come up with a Platonic ideal of NESing because there was never a Platonic ideal with which to begin. The great philosopher of NESing, Wittgenstein, has already given us all the linguistic tools we need on this score. Let...

Hyena, couldn't see it because of the tall grass, but we could clearly hear the sounds of breaking bones so he was eating something that he had scavenged. Great Blue Heron with fish Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu

Pink Ghost Crab Africa Mocker Swallowtail Baboon

I think we spent around ~6hrs there, which considering its size (and the fact that it was off-season meaning fewer animals) is relatively nothing, but still long enough to see quite a few animals. African jackal One of my favorite animals, the dik-dik Elephants

Passing through the Serengeti:

Egret Streaky Seedeater Speckled Mousebird