08.05.08
My Kind of Humor
Common Blue Morpho taken with camera in “Multi Burst” mode.
My friend Tyler MacDonald invited me to the conservatory in Columbus where we saw butterflies and plants. It was sweet.
Unfortunately, I had left my camera at the North Virginia hotel where I had stayed the previous weekend for the Taking Action for Animals conference. Thankfully, I called the hotel as soon as I realized my camera was missing. They had the camera in their lost and found, but were preparing to send it to another lady who claimed it was hers. Thankfully, the little slip of paper with my name, address, phone number, and email that I put in the camera case pocket — and then told them about — helped to convince them that it was actually mine.
However, someone must have messed with my camera. No, there are no interesting and sordid new pictures for me to share with you. Someone had just switched the camera to the “multi burst” setting which means the camera takes 16 small pictures really rapidly and makes them into the kind of picture you see above. Oblivious to this hucksterism, I took all of my photos at the conservatory in this manner which is why you get to see the same common blue morpho sixteen times.
You may be curious about this butterfly’s name. Well, when he opens his wings, you see a lot of pretty blue, but when they are closed you see the pretty brown pattern above.
Like the morpho, not all butterfly’s names are apparent. There were also some butterfly’s known as crackers, and I was suprised they weren’t white. But it turns out they get their name from jumping and making cracking noises while in their chrysalises to scare off predators, so I suppose that name makes sense too.
Anyway, this is a rather long and rambly introduction to the wonderful joke that Tyler told me. So with out further ado, here it is:
What is green and has wheels?