The skink is under the refrigerator!

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Not something you expect to hear - and my husband had to have me repeat it. Yesterday I saw a skink in the library. Just now I saw a tail disappear under the refrigerator.

He is probably a broad headed skink:


http://www.wildflorida.com/wildlife/lizards/Broad-headed_Skink.php

I have no idea how he got inside, but if he'll eat the silverfish in the library and the cockroaches in the kitchen, he's welcome to stay!

Today seems to be wildlife day around here. While calling Mom to wish her Happy Mother's Day, I saw a fox squirrel out in the pasture. It's been years since I've seen one up here at the top of the hill!


http://www.wildflorida.com/wildlife/mammals/Fox_Squirrel.php

(Not my pictures.)

[NYC_SKP]

1. The mongoose lands at midnight.

This is NOT a drill.

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2. Are the bass biting?

(Line from an old Mission Impossible show where Jim Phelps is going to listen to the tape recorder that was hidden in a tackle box on a pier.)

[NYC_SKP]

3. "tape recorder"?

J/K, I remember getting one at radio shack as a kid, I loved it!

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4. In one of the very early episodes they used a record player!

The local ME (Memorable Entertainment) channel started Mission Impossible with the pilot episode in April. Did you know that Steven Hill who is now on Law & Order was originally the "controller" for the MI team? In one of the first few episodes, he visited a shop where people could listen to vinyl records in private booths (I never heard of that type of shop before) and the record had his briefing. Another early episode had him go into a phone booth and the briefing was given to him over the phone. By the time Steven Hill left the show, they had begun using the tape recorder. As far as I can figure, from watching the end of the series and the beginning, they used the same model tape recorder all the way through.

It wasn't until a number of episodes into Peter Graves taking over the "controller" role that they began destroying the tape - one of the first times it was destroyed, Phelps had to drop the reel into a vat of acid.

Another bit of trivia which I should send to Brad Blog - the fifth episode, called "Wheels," had the MI team stopping an election tampering effort. The lever machine had been preset with votes for the bad guy and Barney had to reset them after the election had started by turning counter wheels inside the machine.

[pinboy3niner]

5. That reminds me of this, lol...

Enjoy!

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7. The cat's wet now!

[NYC_SKP]

6. That is some cool info!

I'm gonna search for clips after the mom's day party dies down!

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8. I wish I could figure out how to copy recordings off my DVR to DVD

But it'd probably be cheaper to just buy the series.

[NYC_SKP]

9. RCA outputs to computer or digital camcorder?

I've had to dick around to get video from VHS to digital and sometimes it takes a component in between.

RCA or S-video or other outputs from DVR can be sent to a recording device, sometimes a laptop, for recording into some other medium.

Ideally, everything ends up on a drive as a digital .mov or .dv file, sound and video combined.

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11. This computer doesn't have video input

And I haven't been able to get my husband to bring the stand alone DVD recorder from upstairs. The last time I tried to copy off the DVR, digital copy protection defeated it. Somewhere here I have a box that bypasses digital copy protection, but I need a device to record to.

Maybe I should just upgrade the computer video card to one with input. But right now I have 70 old MI episodes on the DVR. It'd take me a while to transfer them!

[RILib]

10. I read that as skunk...

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12. Skinks only stink when they're dead

Seriously, once when we were out of town, our cat killed a skink and brought it inside. The people taking care of the cat found it, threw the dead skink in the garbage. When we got back, the entire house reeked. It took us a while to track down the odor - it was the three day old dead skink. Nasty, nasty smell. Worse than dead mice under the freezer.