The puns just write themselves! Great news. Beekeepers showed up and have relocated the hive. They first showed up within minutes of me hitting publish on that earlier post. They spent a long time surveying the situation, undoubtedly because of where the hive was and also so they could do it right. According to a coworker with beekeeping experience (they may have come due to him contacting the local beekeeping society) they were probably looking for the queen, so they could take her first.

My day job is literally in Times Square. The address is 3 Times Square. Despite the grand-sounding name, the building is only a little over 15 years old. Across the street, however, is a slice of history; One Times Square. What was, long ago, the New York Times Building. It doesn’t look like this anymore. Now it looks like a large place to attach billboards. Yes, there’s a building under there.

The questions of whether or not other animals are sentient, and what “sentience” really means, have been with us for a long time. I spent a lot of time reading studying animal behavior, via independent reading, online courses, and classes. Most of this information doesn’t cross over into what consciousness is. When you focus on behavior, then you pretty much stick with inputs, outputs, and consequences. This constraint is a best practice; a critical technique when it comes to solving problems.