Microchipping your pet.

A subject I had never before thought about popped up today with a news article about microchipping your pet. This involves inserting an RFID chip under the skin of the animal. Both veterinarians and animal shelters commonly scan a lost animal for a chip in order to determine whether it has an owner.

The procedure costs about $50 but varies from veterinarian to veterinarian. Someone with 37 chickens, 2 dogs, a pig and a donkey faces a formidable cost. The cost escalates still further if you have a pet hornet nest, and, worse, I'm not sure whether the chip would fit into each hornet. If you have only one or two pets, it is affordable.

An eccentric professor, S. Gordon (Grover) Krantz

Grover Krantz was an anthropologist at Washington State University. He wrote about many things, but was most famous for the Pacific Northwest's famous giants, the Sasquatch otherwise known as Bigfoot.

Krantz believed Bigfoot was a tribe of Gigantopithecus survivors. My own identification of Bigfoot is different, but anyway, here is a very interesting Washington Post article of where Grover ended up after death (in the Smithsonian, on display).

It is a story far more happy than sad, but it does bring tears to the eyes.