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TOLEDO, BUCKAROO!!! IT'S THE RICKUBISCAM
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(sometimes known as the "rick, don't touch that!"
page.)
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DOES
THE CAPTION SAY "IT'S LIVE"? IF IT DOESN'T, IT
ISN'T.
Usually,
the newest material on my pages appears here first. But sometimes, it
doesn't. I'll try this--below is a
list of pages that have been recently updated (outside of this one).
Visit them directly to see what else
is new.
I'm still updating my pages and some of the updates don't really fit on
this
page.
When
I
started this domain, the only way to connect was via dial up and slow
dial up at first. Everything I posted then was configured so dial up
users could see my content over
low-speed connections. Now I'm
upgrading whatever and whenever I can so the old
media
looks better.
NOTE
09/13/2022: Over the last few days, I've done some
general
cleanup of my domain. Today, I've tweaked most of my pages so they
should look better (at least bigger)
on smartphones or tablets.
Note
02/03/2023:
With the larger numbers of larger images (usually 900 x 675) that I've
been putting on the pages, I've found that the pages take longer
to
load-and even with
good bandwidth connections. So if I upload an "article"
with more than 16 images, I may eventually split it off onto its own
page, although it will
usually show up first here on
the RICKUBISCAM
page.
Sometimes, a new domain update doesn't appear here on the RICKUBISCAM
page. The list below will show most current updates made elsewhere in
the
domain (but not every change).
Page or file
name
Last
Updates of other pages:
Ichnology page 4 05/04/2024
Added more material from summer 2023. Cicada killer drama.
Ichnology page 4 05/01/2024
Added more material from summer 2023. From two more days. A snake appeared!
Ichnology page 4 04/27/2024
Added more material from summer 2023. From two more days. .
Ichnology page 4 04/25/2024
Added more material from early summer 2023. I intend to add
more soon.
Ichnology page 4 04/09/2024
NEW PAGE! Added a
lot of material from early summer 2023. I intend to catch up and add
more soon.
Osprey page 03/21/2024
Added
a lot of pictures and a video clip of an Osprey observed feeding at
Fiorenza park 05/29/2023.
Rick's General Oddities 12/13/2023 Added
some pictures and a video of me tossing boomerangs at Scobee Field.
Eagle page 1 Eagle page 2 07/24/2023 New Page!
Split original Eagles page into 2 pages. Page 1 is observations from
2004 - 2021; Page 2 is from 2022 onwards. I can't believe I've seen
Bald Eagles so many times!
Cowkiller! page 2
Polistes 07/24/2023 New Page!
1st, split original Cowkiller page into 2 pages. Page 2 features all my
observations of Paper Wasps (Polistes spp.) collected on one page.
Ichnology page 2 06/12/2023 1st,
split original page into
3(!) pages. Next, added material to page 2 showing mystery
burrows at
Scobee Field in 2021(with some inhabitants)!
Rick's 3D model Page 5
(gator den; ver. 2)
07/04/22
I
once used Solidworks at work. Now Solidworks has access I can
use at home, so
I'm modeling an alligator den. My attempts are here.
Rick's 3D model Page 2
(cookiecutter shark bite) 07/01/22
Solidworks has access
I can use at home, so
I've modeled a tube that a shark had bitten.a plug out of.
Rick's 3D model Page 1
(gator den)
05/27/22
I
once used Solidworks at work. Now Solidworks has access I can
use at home, so
I'm modeling an alligator den. My attempts are here.
2008 2010
Videos of folding bicycles from 2008 & 2010
Update 04/22/2024 - 04/06/2024 I saw an Eagle on top of their
high-tension tower perch when I left the Westpark Tollway, so I parked
on the South side of Fiorenza park and
walked to the tower. There was a young Bald Eagle (maybe 2 years old?) on
the tower when I got there. The day was really windy where I was
standing, and the Eagle on the
tower seemed to be getting it, too.
The the Eagle left the tower, so
I tried to capture images as it flew off. The second image below shows
it flying North of me, in front of the landscaped hill on that side of
the
park. Then it circled back and landed on the small, flat island. I was
still East of the tower.
I moved around so that I was just
below the tower, so I could face North and watch the young Eagle
perched on branched there. Suddenly, an adult Eagle flew in
from the
West! It came in fast, but I was able to snap a few photos as
it flew right over my head and landed on top of the tower--right above
me!
I looked up at the Eagle, but the
Sun also in that direction. So I had to move to get the Sun behind me.
I tried getting a few pictures as I moved, but the tower blocked most
of
my view of the Eagle. I moved a bit further East, and then
watched the Eagle eat.
The Eagle quicky consumed most of
the fish. As usual, I tried to get video during this encounter, the
wind made it hard for me to stabilize the camera. The video was very
shaky. The Eagle pulled the tail off the fish, and swallowed it. The
third image below shows it in mid-gulp, (with nictitating lid covering
its eye, too!).
Although the video was shaky, I
could still harvest frames from it. The first 4 images below show it
dropping the last chunk of fish. After it dropped the fish, it "cleaned its beak"
by
rubbing it on the tower. I filmed video of this, and if I can use any
images from that, I'll add them here. During all of this, the
young Eagle was still on the island. When they
didn't
move for a while, I decided to leave and
get out of the wind. Only later did I realize that the Eagle
might have been sharing its breakfast with me when it dropped the
fish! No...I don't really think so.
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Certain
natural observations that first appeared on this page have been moved
to
my other pages. Go back to my home page, Welcome to Rickubis.com
for links to
those pages.
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Update 04/18/2024 - 08/03/2023 (yes, last year)
In Houston This dirt circle (first image
below left) was formed around the tree, most likely by years of me
doing exercises
in
this area. If the weather stays dry enough, the
fine-grained dirt shows traces of what walks through. This picture is
from 7/21/2023. Sometimes I film the exercises.
When I noticed the
tracks in the dirt I took pictures of them, also. In 2019, I
saw
this Cicada nymph (image 2nd from left, below) making a set of tracks
through my circle.
Since then, I can recognize similar
tracks. Most of them, like this one, cut across the circle
and
probably head towards the tree in the center. In 2023, conditions
allowed
for many days of track observations. I think these
images from 8/01/2023 show a nymph track crossing above the
scale, while a snake has crossed below the measuring
scale.
The animal tracks go through the tracks that I'd left there the day
before. Each "square" is about 7mm/side. There are
many more
images from this time
period on this page (and I'm still adding
more as I catch up).
The
last photo (1st image below left) shows a trail coming out of one of
the Cicada burrows, along with a few "dinosaur"
tracks-probably
from Grackles. 2 days later
(8/3/2023) This Cicada nymph crawled up the tree in the center of my
circle. This nymph
(and most others here) climbed at least 8 feet up in the tree before
their final molt
into adults. I continued my exercises. But about 40
minutes later I picked up my camera for more drama.
A
Cicada Killer had captured an adult Cicada, and was preparing it for
transport back to its nest! I'd never seen this event before, and
captured
what I could as it happened
about 8 feet above me. I lost sight of it
among the leaves. The stinger is stored inside the tip of the abdomen,
and extended when the female wasp uses it. The tip
of the
stinger
touched the Cicada many times, possibly probing for insertion points to
inject venom.
We
can see two large spurs on the rear leg. The spurs help females dig
more efficiently. Males have smaller spurs (they don't dig), and they
don't have working stingers,
but show false barbs (that don't
retract) at the end of their abdomen. More probing, and/or injection;
done to paralyze the Cicada for storage. Reminds me of a dentist
applying Novacaine. The needle is used in more than one spot. Video edited from these events can
be seen here.
02/25/2024
Brazos Bend State Park A beautiful day, where there
were many things to see (as usual). I
started back towards my car about 2pm. I noticed something
brown
about 50 yards away, and I thought it was a Nutria. But it was a
football. Now I know what the Nutrias probably do when no humans
are around. They play football.
I don't think the alligators can play
because their front legs are too short--but Nutria have little paws
with claws that they can use to manipulate plants.
This was Pilant Lake and the
Observation Tower at 2:15 pm.
40
Acre Lake at 3:00 pm. I was standing near the middle
of the
East loop, looking generally to the Southwest. Note
the sign at the right edge of the picture.
03/07/2021 Sometimes, one of the park gators seems
to say:
Just pay attention to the sign, okay?
04/08/2012---Easter
Sunday at BBSP gets very busy. This year, I had time to put a camera on
my bicycle handlebars and do a quick ride on the Elm Lake Trail before
it got busy. I was
experimenting with doing "virtual" trail tours of
the park. I'm not sure if this works or not, but here is an
edited
version of the footage I filmed. A surprise unique to the park happens
near
the 6:47 mark. Links to the video are here (files are about
200mb): Elm
Lake trail mp4 .
11/06/2011---Piper
the Pup 
now
has her own page. For Piper-related stuff, you can go here, but
I don't update often.
Pages that show where mom gator has left
babies, possibly so she can forage: 03/06/2016
03/14/2016 12/05/2021
and two times when a mom left after a bellow
bout: 02/16/2020
08/28/2022
I
have created all the content
on *my* pages. That means that I have either shot the video, taken the
pictures, or performed any demonstrations. That also means that I've
edited
every image on these pages, that is, I've cropped,
enhanced, resized,
labeled,
and otherwise optimized *every* single image on my pages. That means
that
I've also edited, enhanced, extracted images from, recoded (in two or
three
or four formats) every *video clip* on these
pages. I've also, for
better
or worse, composed all the text and layout on these pages. I've had to
learn to use the various utilities for doing all of this, as well as
finding
and legally getting copies of them in the first place. I'm also
responsible
for all the hardware used to do this. I also pay for the server space
used
for all of this information as well as for my access to it. It costs a
lot of money, time, and effort to put these pages out here...hopefully
to
entertain and to inform. And this is *after* I spend time at my "day
job". People are welcome to the information here, but if it's
used
elsewhere, then I deserve credit for my effort. If it is used for
someone
else's profit, then I
deserve part of that profit. *That* is the
purpose
of my notices about copyright.
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USED MUSIC IN SOME OF MY VIDEO PRODUCTIONS AND CLIPS. IT HAS BEEN
LICENSED
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DO
NOT
EVER APPROACH ALLIGATORS. THEY CAN BE EXTREMELY
DANGEROUS IF
THEY FEEL THREATENED, JUST LIKE ALMOST ANY ANIMAL. DON'T
DISTURB ALLIGATORS AT THIS PARK, OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
For
the story of my hip replacements, click here. I've
come to think that these
pages are less about me than what I'm writing about, but I've been
talking to lots of old folks (like me) that
wonder how that surgery works.. So, this page shows my experiences with
it.
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RICKUBISCAM
GALLERY!
----a
chronicle of past rickubiscam
images (16 pages starting from
the year 2000!!)
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REPTILE GLASSES
This gif was made in 2011 (I had more
hair!)
This gif was
made in 2011 (I had more hair!)
This
page was born 9/16/1999. Rickubis designed it.
(such as it
is.)
Go back to my home page, Welcome
to Rickubis.com
I'm on Mastodon
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