Daily Archives: 05/07/2010

A Naked Ape Looks So Much Like Man

Sanjay Upadhyay of Bangalore, India, took this photo of Ashes the chimpanzee that’s in November 2009 National Geographic:

Ashes the chimpanzee was born fuzzy but later lost all his hair. Visiting the Mysore Zoo, Upadhyay came across the naked animal. “He was sitting alone and looked sad,” recalls Upadhyay, who works for a software company.

I am amazed. The lats and delts on Ashes as well as the trapezius. The forearms. The shin. It is pretty amazing, don’t you think? The only real difference is the opposable big toe.

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A Naked Ape Looks So Much Like Man

Yummy Breakfast at Miriam’s Kitchen

Responded to a call of too few volunteers on the Monday-after-July-four — as did many people — and helped out on a morning shift at Miriam’s Kitchen. Such a different experience.

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While I am not a morning person, getting up at 5AM to make it to Miriam’s by 5:45 is really no hardship. Lots of sous-chefs and lots of hands-on-deck and tons of cool people. That said, I am all about my afternoons at Miriam’s Kitchen serving dinner and doing the morning prep and clean-up.

I do my next service at Miriam’s on Wednesday. If you want to give it a go or volunteer, please let me know. You can also check out Miriam’s at @miriamskitchen on Twitter and facebook.com/miriamskitchen.

Pop them a “follow” or a “like” when you have a chance!

Yummy Breakfast at Miriams Kitchen