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On this theme, my older daughter (8) went to a film festival with her mother yesterday afternoon at the library, both of them couldnât stop talking about âSwing to the Moonâ about a spider trying to get to the moon
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Oooh, did you read about the ones who build underwater webs then fill them with air so they have a little gossamer Atlantis from which they hunt water bugs? Animal Architecture, the book, is a real gem.
Especially if the phone also doesnât work. 
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I love the diving bell spider, and now have that book on hold at the library (and this one is fast-tracked for potential ownership, I thinkâŚthanks!)
The first time I was able to legitimately amaze my kids with science was to put a cup upside down, put my two fingers pinching a ball of toilet paper up in the cup, submerge it in the bathtub, then pull it up and show them the paper completely dry from its diving bell.
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Oooh, nice orb weaver!
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Ah! Speaking of, I just got around to todayâs funny pages:
Did not know that about centipedes, which Iâd give a wide berth in any case.
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âWhoâs that on the phone, dear?â
âShhhh! Itâs the Finns!â
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huh⌠Mark Trail looks different than i remember from the sunday funnies of old (when i was a wee lad).
reminds me of a little rhyme my mum always repeated WRT spiders:
âif you want to love and thrive,
let the spider go alive.â
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Jules Rivera came on as illustrator a few years ago. I liked the fresh take, but our paper dropped it shortly after so I havenât kept up.
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Jules Rivera is doing a great job freshening up the strip. The Washington Post still carries it.
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I was just going to suggest that this looks like a Toynbee tile. Almost certainly not the original artist, but the style is very similar.
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Yep! I couldnât remember the name of them, but thatâs precisely what I think it must be! Thanks for the reminder and @BakaNeko!
Very cool to see randomly around my city!
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It doesn´t look like one of the vintage/original plaques. I think it is a XXI Centrury version. Is it related to the Saint Seiya anime?
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My daughter calls it âthe kiteâ.
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No, it definitely rather recent⌠itâs been a while since Iâve been to that part of town⌠I think the last time we were there was prior to the pandemic, so late 2019? Iâm sure it wasnât there then. It has a 2020 date on it, soâŚ
No idea!
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