Bernie the bird

[Q]

So, this big white heron has been hanging around my apartment for about a week. He's pretty cool...and very friendly. If I call him, he runs right over to me. When I walk out to my truck, he follows right behind me. A couple days ago I broke up a piece of bread and threw the pieces to him. He ate them, but he didn't seem all that impressed. Yesterday I gave him some hamburger. He liked that alot better. Today he took a piece of steak right out of my hand.
I never thought a wild bird would do that. I named him Bernie.

I took some pics of him, but I can't post them till my replacement HDD arrives, so a generic Bernie will have to do for now.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

That is sooo cool!

 

[Q]

I'm still amazed. He's not a baby, so where ever he was living before, somebody must have been pretty nice to him for him to be this tame.

 

[Leslie]

that's wicked! He's healthy and all?

 

[Professur]

He's probably a runaway from Disney.

 

[Q]

I don't know too much about birds, but he looks healthy to me. I'm guessing he's about a teenager or young adult...and he likes to eat.

 

[greenfreak]

I thought Heron only eat fish? I guess if he's that tame, he'll eat anything that people give him. I don't know how good that is for him though.

So you got them to send you a replacement drive, huh? That's pretty cool! So does that mean you'll be IM'ing and stuff now?? No more excuses.

 

[Q]

Well, the broken drive won't even be arriving in Ca till next Fri I sent it UPS ground. 10 days. I guess they must use bicycle couriers now. Hopefully I'll see the new drive in less than a month.

 

[greenfreak]

You've been waiting for this for months, 10 days ain't gonna kill you

I'm glad they relented though. Did you have as much of a fight on your hands as you thought or were they cool about it?

 

[Justintime]

 

[Gonz]

Now fo rthe important question...what do the dogs think of your new friend?

 

[Q]

Scrappy HATES him. Dud and Chopper just look at him, I don't think they care too much.

Greenie, I got an RMA with no problem at all. I just went to the website, plugged in the serial and part numbers to verify the warranty, answered a small questionaire and they emailed me an RMA. I'm curious now though. I did have a 3 yr warranty, with 1 yr left. Will the new drive have a 3yr or a 1 yr warranty?

 

[Justintime]

I don't think so, it'll just be under warranty with the time remaining.

 

[Q]

Great this one took 2 years to puke...and I though since Hitachi took over IBM I might be getting a Hatachi drive...but apparently they must have a pretty big warehouse full of IBM's. I'm getting another Deathstar....yippy skippy.

 

[Justintime]

shit.. I've had problems with ALL GXP models.. Maybe you should use it as a doorstop and buy a seagate or wd

 

[Q]

I could have a nice new 200gb WD for what I paid for that sucker 2 years ago....

 

[Stop Laughing]

Get him to work in McDonalds commercials to endorse a new burger, the Bernie Mac. Too bad the name's taken already...

 

[Aunty Em]

Nah... sign him up for Bernie Inns!