He didn’t give him time to say anything. He grabbed one of those garbage cans, you know, one of those cardboard garbage cans with the metal rimming, and he smashed him over the head with it, and then he kicked the garbage can out of the way and started kicking his head in. Five...
This is the time of year when nature’s colors in this area usually go through a shift. Normally, the bright colors of summer’s flowers begin to disappear and are replaced by the autumnal colors of changing leaves. But, the warmer and wetter weather through September and October has allowe...
I’ve raved about the perfection of la Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée before, and that love will never die. But this time, in one of my wanderings I stumbled across a museum that surprised me with how fun it is. (I also got to explore the sewers, which I ...
Finally (actually this happened first; my post is going back in time), I visited UCD’s zoology building for the PhD viva and saw a few cool specimens there, as follows: Giant deer in UCD zoology building foyer, with a lovely Pleistocene landscape painted on the wall behind it. Sika dee...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
As always, this is a labour of love, but it aligns with an important message I share all the time– it is time to pay attention to the information that matters, and what is going on in our world matters. The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and...
Maybe if we looked at the beginning of the 20th century and asked the pioneers of sci-fi what the world would look like in 100 years’ time the answers would be very interesting. This, of course, is the biggest age of change we have ever had technology-wise. ...
Yesterday, Max and I took a ride to a warm water creek with the JP Ross 3wt. Beaver Meadow and snared a few of these. Sure needed it. Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture Its been a long time, since I have mentioned EBTJV–a great organization and I encourage folks to contact them and...
She’s always been used to seeing me draw. We draw all of the time together — on paper placemats at restaurants — and we play a game together where she’ll draw a squiggle and I’ll have to make a picture out of it and vice versa. So I don’t think she ever found it unusual...
"Once again, it's time to hand out the Dundie Awards! Now you can have your very own trophy, which recalls the classic "Dundies" episode. The trophy comes with six interchangeable placards." (including all of the awards given out in that particular episode, like "bushiest beaver," "wh...