Ray's thought for the Day
Once upon a time a bunch of biologists went down to Del Rio to find out if there were still any ocelots alive in that neck of the woods. Provided with chicken cages, and cameras with motion sensors, all they needed was some chickens. With some difficulty the biologists found a feed store that vended chickens. The biologists felt like they got over charged on the chickens, but what the heck. With some difficulty the biologists loaded the excited chickens into the cages and hoisted those cages up on top of the biologists' great vehicle and tied those cages down good so they wouldn't blow off . Away the biologists and the chickens went to the potential ocelot photography site. Later the biologists had to wash the great vehicle.
The method was to set up the cages near potential ocelot brush habitat, set up the cameras and leave all the stuff out there for several nights running. The ocelots would naturally come over to the cages to visit with the chickens and the remote sensors would espy the ocelots and the cameras would take pictures of the ocelots, thus proving there were some ocelots in that neck of the woods still.
The results indicated that no ocelots got their pictures taken during the research interval. However, a house cat and assorted raccoons did get their pictures taken, thus indicating their presence during the research interval.
From what passes for a daily newspaper in these parts we learned today that Perry announces $125 million program to beef up security and that Texas will be placing hundreds of surveillance cameras in vast stretches of remote crime hot spots along the Texas-Mexico border and post the videos on the Internet as part of a virtual watch program, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday.
I wonder who will be getting most of the $125 million. The article doesn't say. Anyway, this certainly is a hoot of a program. Can you guess some of the reasons it's a hoot of a program?
Oh, one additional quote; The governor said the state will use an additional $5 million to place the cameras with the voluntary participation of private landowners who will "be able to monitor and defend their property from those who might endanger their families."
Maybe I can get a job monitoring the video tapes. Noper, on second thought, that job would need to go to a virtual video tape monitoring expert with the right political predilections.
The method was to set up the cages near potential ocelot brush habitat, set up the cameras and leave all the stuff out there for several nights running. The ocelots would naturally come over to the cages to visit with the chickens and the remote sensors would espy the ocelots and the cameras would take pictures of the ocelots, thus proving there were some ocelots in that neck of the woods still.
The results indicated that no ocelots got their pictures taken during the research interval. However, a house cat and assorted raccoons did get their pictures taken, thus indicating their presence during the research interval.
From what passes for a daily newspaper in these parts we learned today that Perry announces $125 million program to beef up security and that Texas will be placing hundreds of surveillance cameras in vast stretches of remote crime hot spots along the Texas-Mexico border and post the videos on the Internet as part of a virtual watch program, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday.
I wonder who will be getting most of the $125 million. The article doesn't say. Anyway, this certainly is a hoot of a program. Can you guess some of the reasons it's a hoot of a program?
Oh, one additional quote; The governor said the state will use an additional $5 million to place the cameras with the voluntary participation of private landowners who will "be able to monitor and defend their property from those who might endanger their families."
Maybe I can get a job monitoring the video tapes. Noper, on second thought, that job would need to go to a virtual video tape monitoring expert with the right political predilections.
posted by ray pistrum at Friday, June 02, 2006
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