Television is very quick, very immediate, but the content is often kind of trivial.

A station was reviewing some year-end summaries of sports activities, while we were waiting for some computer stuff to finish processing.

We like to click the television on when some task is chewing up computer time, and the keyboard slows down to a crawl. We use the same monitor for both, with a switch box that brings in some external television signals, especially in case we need to keep an eye on the ever changing Texas weather, which we have had some exciting times with in 2009. But that is another story.

The story that ESPN was showing in their year-end review was a Padres-Astro game back at the beginning of July, with some so-called "killer bees" that invaded the stadium. Someone made a comment that the swarm was attacking a Padres jacket, but that is not clear from the picture here, where a jacket is visible at the bottom, thrown across the back of a folding chair, and up above there is some guy waving his arms, which would appear to be a rather fruitless gesture, since some insects are actually attracted to rapid movement (freeze!). It delayed the game for around 50 minutes, as the players, and some of the fans had to be cleared. We don't follow sports, but this falls into our curiosity about social insects, a specialty area of entomology. We had to search around for the story online, the newspapers don't seem to keep news of this importance on-line for too long, we found a lot of dead links before we found a description and a picture together.



But if you want to click the link to see the picture of a guy flailing his hat at the swarm, here is an article for you to review about bees in the infield:

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/07/02/swarming-bees-delay-astros-vs-padres/