Pandas.

I just discovered these panda photos. They are a couple years old, but no matter, they are just too fun and I can't resist putting them up. I love the little panda in the bottom row, 4th from the left, I can't tell if he's trying to smile or just make a grotesque face.

I'd love to have a panda, I would leave him out front, he'd be like a guard dog, only bigger. I wonder if the panda would chase cars? More pics here.



I also found the following video over at Stuff on Fire, it has to do with pandas, great vid, I can't resist putting it up either.

Culmination of human evolution? Ability to record funny animal videos?

I've been spending some time on Youtube, and one of the main things I notice is that there are tons of videos of animals doing things, usually kind of funny things. I'm a huge animal person, but there comes a point where I reach a saturation level, where enough is enough, animals doing the same stupid things over and over again gets a bit played out.

And it doesn't stop there, everywhere you look there are photoshopped pictures of animals that are meant to be funny. Or movies like Garfield or that kung fu dog movie, or Air Bud.

I suppose that is the loss of childhood, when you see animals doing funny things, or acting human, and you don't find it all that funny anymore. I still have extremely fond memories of that talking black cat on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. My sister would watch that, and I would join her just to see that cat. Inexplicably funny. Maybe it was his snide demeanor.

In spite of my mini-diatribe, I still find some animal videos funny. As much as I get annoyed, sometimes you just can't help yourself. Shoot, who'm I kidding, I still LOVE animals doing funny things! I feel like an alcoholic berating someone else for drinking.