Bird on a Bush

Last night I received a phone call from a professor at a university in southern California. His department had purchased a used robot and needed help understanding what they had. The robot had been manufactured by a company I once worked for but had left at the turn of the millenium. The professor had googled the robot’s name and his search returned my name and phone number. So much for anonymity in a world of seven billion people. Google knows everything, obviously. How do they do that?

This bird sits outside my window and spies on me. I wonder if it works for Google. Perhaps it’s reporting back to its evil masters, “Yes, I see him now … he’s standing at the window pointing a camera at me.”

Nothing would surprise me.

A bird in the hand is worth…

This next photo was taken on a different day. Same bird? It’s trying to act nonchalant, as if to say, “I’m not spying on anybody – especially not you.” But remember, birds have been tweeting for thousands of years – long before humans learned how to tweet.

Bird on a Wire

Incidentally, Bird on a Wire is the name of a 1990 movie starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn. Not to be confused with Bird on the Wire, a Leonard Cohen song recorded in 1968 and included on his second album, Songs from a Room.

Oh. Stream of consciousness. It happens.