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The other night we had a visitor to the platform. The platform is located halfway between Qatar and Iran. I got told by the night shift about it, and that they had taken some pictures of it. I didn't realise that they had actually taken this wild bird inside the control room and had the thing perched on their arms! I saw it in the morning when it was resting in a cage with food and water and it looked pretty impressive then, before it was opened and flew away when it was ready to. Then I saw the pictures, and surpised that no one got eaten alive or their eyes torn out.
I put a picture at the link below, it is a fair size when you seen it on the arm of the operator. Really surprised how at ease it was. Somebody said in Qatar the bird would have fetched around $10k, so some of the guys were disappointed they let it go!
see the pictures here
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The way it's sitting on that guy's arm suggests it is someone's hunter, rather than a wild bird, that got a bit lost and stopped for a rest.
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It had no marking rings on its legs.
Apparently it is migration season.
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DaveAuld wrote: they had actually taken this wild bird inside the control room
How in the world did they manage that? As a wild bird, I would have thought that it would have flown away when someone approached it.
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That's what I would have thought. When I went to look at it, I checked to see if there were any leg rings etc that would suggest that it might be 'owned', but nothing.
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Not all owned animals are tagged.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Not all owned animals are tagged.
As an employee (who has no obvious tags) of a company...that is a very deep statement. 
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Have you considered flying away? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Can't you see I'm obviously trapped here...in my gilded cage.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Not all owned animals are tagged.
Not all tagged animals are owned.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Previously owned now set free (flew away) probably. Although by choice or not is another thing.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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DaveAuld wrote: Somebody said in Qatar the bird would have fetched around $10k, so some of the guys were disappointed they let it go!
Glad you let it go, as at the risk of being superstitious there is a certain poem about a particular bird and the sea.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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DaveAuld wrote: Then I saw the pictures, and surpised that no one got eaten alive or their eyes torn out.
or, unless that coverall is made of very heavy duty fabric; just getting their arm torn up...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It is a light weight summer overall cloth. So yes, it left marks!
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Just to be a downer, I hope health and safety don't see the pictures, a bird of such proportions (or any bird) taken into a workplace will have then shitting bricks.
Impressive beastie, I have a photo of a wallaby hopping through our garden, taken from the home office window. Nowhere near as impressive 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It is the middle east, health and safety has different meaning here.........not once has anyone ever said, put a lid on that cup in the 2.5 years I have been here!
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In an earlier post Blown Off the Face of the Web[^] I noted how my appearance in search engines was hijacked when an on-line gambling site bought the previous domain when I released it and grabbing up my 14+ years activity. The new version of the site was disappeared.
This may be in part to my changing the intra-site links to full paths rather than the simpler name (which mapped to the real host). Maybe.
Well - it finally reappeared in a search. The tiny crack I was looking for. Clicking through and paging and lingering. It was still there later. Now, I'm mobilizing an small army of users to search for it, click through, and browse. Let Google stats take care of the rest. I also warn the growing army to absolutely not click on the Thai script version out of curiosity as it will aid the enemy.
Since the search is of interest to only a comparatively small group, click-throughs and browsing should lock it on page one of the search rather quickly. It's been two days and it's already at the top of one search, mid-page on one that failed completely last week.
Hopefully, now it's my turn. Nah hah hah!
[update]
2017.09.28 - apparently they noticed my site above theirs and fought back. I'm not surprised; just wondering if it's with a bot-army or poorly paid meat-bags?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 28-Sep-17 10:41am.
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"Satellite comber is top sheet." (9)
Good luck.
Andy B
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MOONRAKER
(but I have no idea why)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well done - it's your turn tomorrow.
I'll let others have some fun working out the full solution.
Andy B
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Moon = Satellite
Raker = Comber
The uppermost sail on a fully rigged ship is the Moonraker.
This space for rent
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Well done Peter, but just pipped by your namesake for the answer.
Andy B
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But a sheet is a rope, not a sail! 
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Well you live and learn! Thanks Matt, luckily the clue solvers managed to work around my error  .
Andy B
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