We haven't adopted a rabbit. But ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger became aware of a compelling rabbit in need of a home, a bunny down in Jackson, Michigan. Not a Flemish Giant, or even a New Zealand, a rabbit almost as big as a Flemish but, you know, pretty big yet. (We think Sunshine was likely a Flemish/New Zealand cross.) This would be a more average-size rabbit, like, eight pounds or so.
The distinctive thing, though: his ear. Something attacked it, so the poor thing's almost half chewed or burned away. And ... like, lengthwise, so the part of the left ear that touches the right ear is there. It's the outside of the ear that's gone. The rescue didn't have information about how it happened. A fight with something seems most likely.
We like large rabbits, yes, but there's something compelling about a rabbit that's had such a life already, and bunnyhugger kept coming back to his page. And Jackson isn't far away; we could meet the bunny and maybe bring them back any afternoon.
The rabbit was adopted, but not by us. Have to suppose it was by someone looking forward to caring for a rabbit who'd had a previous life that hard already. Hope they're what he needed.
Going to share pictures of the Women's North American Championship Series at Wizards World arcade, much like the last couple days. But there's a big surprise coming this time ...
I think every time I see a Grand Lizard I photograph the backglass. It's just such a good example of this kind of art, you know?
Also my, but this grand dragon has a look, what with the ... harness that seems to be support for her cape of tiny skulls? Also pretty sure she's not kneeling on top of a squat, wide creature with that face (above the 00 and 40 readouts) but I can't swear to it.
I stepped outside for a snack and then noticed something happening out front. What's this?
Yeah: it's a brand-new pinball game being delivered!
It would not be entered into the tournaments, of course, but it would be open for playing in just a few minutes after this and become the thing everyone had to try at least once.
Installing the game. You can maybe see the scoring is three seven-digit LEDs; the game is deliberately retro with the look of a mid-80s game but, of course, modern play style.
Getting ready to put the glass back on and open it up to general play. In an ominous move the game defaulted to being five quarters --- $1.25 --- a play, although they soon changed that to a dollar a play.
And now, a game's getting moved out to be put in tournament play. I had written it was Nine Ball earlier but no, it was Stars getting swapped out.
The move. ... Sure hope that guy works for the arcade.
Here's what they needed that Stars for. The epic alphabet battle between AB and BC.
Jacket left behind on a stool, which struck me as the sort of thing that shows the tournament advancing and people getting tired and maybe also figuring that it's not that cold inside the venue. (It would get a bit warm, possibly because of a hundred games all turned on and there being no windows.)
Some of this stuff is free giveaways meant for anyone who wants it. Some of it is door prizes for people who are in the tournament. Choose wisely. (The Godfather is a Jersey Jack pinball game I saw at one (1) Pinball At The Zoo and nowhere else. I saw more Grand Lizards at the Women's Intergalactic Pinball Tournament in July than I have ever seen Godfather pins.)
Trivia: In June 1893 the British battleship Camperdown collided with Admiral Sir George Tyron's flagship Victoria because of a faulty signal Tryon issued, and that no one had courage to countermand. Tryon and 358 officers and men died in the collision. Victoria's second-in-command, John Jellicoe, survived. Source: To Rule The Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, Arthur Herman.
Currently Reading: The Emerald City of Oz, L Frank Baum. Marvel Comics adaptation by Eric Shanower, Skottie Young.
