You know I've been in an especially dark pit of procrastination whenever this blog has a new look. Yes, I was an very bad place yesterday when I decided to spend a significant amount of time in Blogger's settings, giving my little pixel of the internet a makeover. We tried on all sorts of outfits, and this is where we ended up.
And what better way to commemorate things than yet another list of things that I don't get.
1) What the arctic tern's problem is. So I've always wondered what birds' issue is and why they need to migrate like 10,000 miles twice a year. It's ridiculous. If it's a matter of going from one climate to another, there's no reason to go that far—the North Pole is 6,000 miles away from the equator. Every climate possible exists in between. There's no explanation for going farther than that. It would be like me commuting from New York to Richmond every day for work because I found a good deal on an office there.
And then I read this:
Arctic terns are the champions of long distance migration. They fly about 11,000 miles from their breeding grounds in the Arctic to their winter home in Antarctica.
Champions? Champions of what—horrible decision-making? They're not even changing their climate. This would be like finding an office in downtown Manhattan for $1,300/month, but then deciding to commute every day to San Francisco, where I found an office on an identical-looking street for $1,300/month.
Maybe there's more food on one of the poles. Okay, great—then just stay at that pole. Maybe it's better to breed at the other pole. Really? It's that important which pole you breed on? I'm sure you can find a place on the eating pole to rear your young. If you stop the 22,000 miles of commuting each year, you'll have plenty of time to suss out all the best locations. Maybe each pole gets too cold in the winter. Then go 1,000 miles of latitude away and you'll be fine. Either way, going from pole to pole each year is not the answer.
And what better way to commemorate things than yet another list of things that I don't get.
1) What the arctic tern's problem is. So I've always wondered what birds' issue is and why they need to migrate like 10,000 miles twice a year. It's ridiculous. If it's a matter of going from one climate to another, there's no reason to go that far—the North Pole is 6,000 miles away from the equator. Every climate possible exists in between. There's no explanation for going farther than that. It would be like me commuting from New York to Richmond every day for work because I found a good deal on an office there.
And then I read this:
Arctic terns are the champions of long distance migration. They fly about 11,000 miles from their breeding grounds in the Arctic to their winter home in Antarctica.
Champions? Champions of what—horrible decision-making? They're not even changing their climate. This would be like finding an office in downtown Manhattan for $1,300/month, but then deciding to commute every day to San Francisco, where I found an office on an identical-looking street for $1,300/month.
An atrocious decision-maker
Maybe there's more food on one of the poles. Okay, great—then just stay at that pole. Maybe it's better to breed at the other pole. Really? It's that important which pole you breed on? I'm sure you can find a place on the eating pole to rear your young. If you stop the 22,000 miles of commuting each year, you'll have plenty of time to suss out all the best locations. Maybe each pole gets too cold in the winter. Then go 1,000 miles of latitude away and you'll be fine. Either way, going from pole to pole each year is not the answer.
