December 2009
9 posts
Finding the Hopi Rattlesnake, Part 5 →
Continued from part 1, part 2, part 3 & part 4.
Final pictures of the series, the first Hopi Rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis viridis, formally Crotalus viridis nuntius, found by Kelly and…
Lubber Grasshoppers →
In the Fall of 2008, South Eastern Arizona was absolutely flooded with these huge lubber grasshoppers. I first saw a few crossing a road and thought that they were male tarantulas out and about…
Are You Threatening Me? →
I respect lizards. Unlike cowardly snakes that try and escape immediately upon discovery, many lizards will go just a few feet and turn around to engage me in the most terrifying aspect of their…
Whoops →
I win
My First Desert Patchnose Snake →
Here’s the first Desert Patchnose Snake (Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis) I encountered in the wild from several years ago. He appropriately bit the hell out of my finger and escaped up a sheer dirt…
Stripe-Tail Scorpion →
I know this isn’t a lizard, but I still take pictures of them from time to time when things are slow. It’s (I believe so anyway) a stripe-tail scorpion (Vaejovis spinigeris), one of the more…
Round-Tailed Horned Lizards →
Here are a few pictures of one of my favorite Arizona-native lizards, the Round-Tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum). They always look so damn serious, which is even funnier when you meet…
How to Keep Your Design Out of Design Hell
This article is in response to a cartoon published by TheOatmeal called “How a Design Goes Straight To Hell” that’s floating around right now, to which any designer can relate to.
It can be avoided, absolutely, without any extra work whatsoever.
Anyone who’s ever hired a professional graphic designer knows results can be a mixed bag. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t, and it can be...