Day 54: Lil Snake

2026-04-01

Hello! As I predicted, I couldn't change anything for April Fools.

Although, a friend of mine has made a brilliant extension for Google Chrome (and Firefox) to detect rickroll links — any URL directing you to Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley will be flagged. Hope it helps; be suspicious of things too good to be true on the Internet today...

I wandered around in a nature conservation area the other day. I've been told that I've been here before, that a decade ago, a younger me watched birds fly in droves as they migrated. There's photographic proof, similar to the town garden last month.

I can't believe how much has changed in a decade. Sure, the earth is still rotating at more or less the same speed as before. Tech continues to amaze people. And I'm only being a little cheeky when I say the US president is still the same.

But I'm different. In ways that I could never talk about to friends, much less the open Internet. In ways that even I'm not fully conscious of.

But I get to keep my curiosity. The ideas I've had to go out in the wilderness to take 151 pictures of objects that remind me of certain Pokemon are absurd, but they keep me going sometimes.

This photo is an example of that absurdity. I was walking in the nature trail that day, and I passed by this bridge over a running creek. I was about to walk on by, but these strange garter snakes were just slithering there. It was very strange.

Finally, I saw this art piece magnifying the wings of a butterfly. It takes up an entire wall and shows microscopic detail. I've tried doing macro photography before, but I've only ever seen the details of a wing in a science lab or online. Maybe I should explore macro photography more...

Cheers,
David