Plan for today / At the market place

The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. N. W. Dougherty

Plan for today

After having morning coffee with S in the marketplace: finishing "The geography of nowhere" and "Powerdown", taking a look at my newest book No one makes you shop at Wal-Mart — the surprising deceptions of individual choice by Tom Slee, having some exercise by walking one the books (as in walking the dog), writing, and later cooking. As Conan M says: "We are going to have a great show today".

At the market place

A jackdaw proved his cleverness. He made quite a noise just to get everyone's attention for a while and then to lose it. Then he made sure that the vegetable seller turned her back and flew to get a pod of peas. He then ate the peas on a transformer, where pigeons could not land, and repeated the trick. We saw him stealing 4 pods.
Wasps are getting more desperate. They had made the fish seller (merchant) desperate by buzzing on his fish. The seller had to put some herrings aside for the wasps. There were hundreds of wasp eating the herrings. Quite a buzz.

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