It’s funny – as a species, we seem to have a propensity for discovery, to explore uncharted areas in the hope/belief that something magical awaits just over the horizon. It’s probably responsible for most of our explorations across the planet. There is definitely a cool feeling when you’re traveling, and you see a new and interesting place awaiting you on your path
Category: Random
The proper way
Sorry, this will be brief, and pointless. Courtesy of a post by Sean Carroll, I herewith present the proper way to order your favorite drink:
1. Ask for what you want.
2. Drink it.
You will note that I have excluded everything having to do with learning how anyone else does it, receiving instruction, and most especially long discussions about what effect some method produces. It’s your
Nicely done!
[UPDATE: The video has been taken down now, since apparently the copyright holders of the ABBA music felt that a non-profit organization using it was “too commercial” and was unlikely to boost the sales of a thirty-five-year-old song. Did you need more proof that attorneys are not bright?]
It’s been a while since I mentioned having worked in an animal shelter, a portion of my life
This one goes to twelve
Hey, I figure I had to post something precisely at 12:12 am on 12/… aw shit.
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
But at least I waited a day just to thwart all that goofy ‘Caturday’ stuff…
Kinda dark Wednesday
Skeptic magazine just wanted to screw with my timing, and immediately after I put up the last book review (previous post,) they started a five-day 25% off sale on everything in their store, which includes the
By the numbers
The last post was one from my numbered series, and unfortunately I have three more from other series in the pipes, so you’re going to see a lot of sequels – I’m going to try and space them out as much as possible. And hopefully, I’ll do a better job than Hollywood sequels. At least mine are all by the original director…
Book on sale
Courtesy of Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution Is True, I want to alert people that Donald Prothero’s book Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters is now on sale at Amazon, in e-book format. Normally $23.99, for month of November it is just $3.99!
In addition, one of Coyne’s readers, James (yes, the same James we all know and love) is throwing in an extra bonus:
Mad, you say?
In honor of the day, I present to you an image from a few weeks ago, while I was trying to get decent photographs of a tiny thread-legged assassin bug, Stenolemus lanipes. I thought the pattern on the abdomen could be considered appropriate.
Though I admit, now that The Girlfriend’s Younger Sprog pointed out the ‘horns’ to me, which I’d missed at first, I now can’t help
True story
“Now where did this odd callous on the side of my thumb come from?”
Oh. Yeah.
That might do it…