We just adopted a German Shorthair Pointer, a dog that needs to run. So I take her out in the fields every morning so she can stretch her legs. And I, obviously, walk across the field and back while she runs, about .4 miles each way.

It has been said this is a heavy tick year. And sure enough, when we got back the first day she had one or two ticks on her and I had at least one. So we started on a systemic flea and tick poison that literally kills the little buggers after they bite.

I, OTOH, can’t take that med, so I end up picking 1-3 ticks off myself every day. No diseases yet, but a whole lot of sores from where the ticks had enough time to bite and start to extract nutrition before I caught them. What a nuisance!

BTW that’s Augustus De Morgan, the same De Morgan responsible for De Morgan’s Laws:
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not (A or B) = (not A) and (not B)
not (A and B) = (not A) or (not B)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws
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Basic stuff. You can’t go very far into propositional logic or Boolean algebra without De Morgan’s Laws. Also useful for electrical circuits and computer programming.

I was unaware of his literary side. “A Budget of Paradoxes” looks scholarly yet entertaining, weaving between English, Latin and French. Must have been a clever bloke!

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23100/23100-h/23100-h.htm

You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another’s said or sung,
‘Twere politic to do the like by these;
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v10n11_1936-08/page/n14/mode/1up

“Siphonaptera” is a name used to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong):

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

The rhyme appears in De Morgan’s A Budget of Paradoxes (1872) along with a discussion of the possibilities that all particles may be made of clustered smaller particles, “and so down, for ever”, and that planets and stars may be particles of some larger universe, “and so up, for ever”.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/watch-tiktok-video-woman-digging-223256954.html?

On the other hand a cougar walked through the yard a couple nights ago. I always tell my girl when she needs to go out at night to not get eaten. She announces herself in a “if I find you in my yard I’m gonna kill you” way. But it is all bluff.

All I can think is yuck.

A diet I always regarded as very strange, until I saw the actual lyrics in an old piece of sheet music from my aged aunt.
The real words are even stranger.