"What other fossils were found around it?"
Considering that it took six years (if I remember what I read/heard accurately) to find this one, I imagine there's a whole lot of excitement about going back to Ellsmere Island this summer to continue searching.
Our pointer dreams fairly often. If I say "Rabbits" loudly enough, she'll stop.
I had a hamster when I was about 8 or 9, but I don't remember it exhibiting behavior like PB. On the occasions when it got away (while the cage was being cleaned, I suppose) it would hide under/behind the refrigerator.
"Why is a manuscript copy of 'The Raven' like a writing-desk?"
It's not, unless it's a really big folio.
This TNH exposition"Bush is to public discourse as Three Card Monte is to card game. . . .about Mr. Bush's speeches in the post about Jane Smiley's "Notes to the Converts" made it into Dan Froomkin's White House Briefing column today. Page One, no less.
Since it's an open thread and the cost of books and book collecting has been mentioned, who's read any of John Dunning's Cliff Janeway mysteries? Janeway's an ex-cop now making a living as a used bookseller in Denver. I own one of the books (The Bookman's Wake) and wasn't too enthused, but I wonder if I just got the runt of the litter.
"The smarter vampires"
I now have an image of Marty Zweig and Jim Rogers rising from coffins, clutching fistsful of bonds and stock certificates, mouthing phrases like "I vill drink your basis points."
EconoGothick might have a future.
"Spike was including accrued interest."
Er, financial or literary?
TexAnne, you are not the only one. I had "misled" wrong for about 15 years.
Gosh, Greg, you're missing a whole bunch of good anti-creationist thought if you don't try PZ Myers. Just be ready for the squid photos, and the giant mouse-crunching centipede, and the...
Oh, you get the idea.
The trouble with the converts is that some of them (Bartlett, Wilkerson, O'Neill) were on the inside and didn't seem to do much to bring reason to the table while there. It's only after they bailed that they announced their apostasy.
For that reason I have trouble being too laudatory of them. I'll be polite (not that I expect to be in the same room), but that's about it.
FWIW, Mr. Chaucer's blog has moved from the link provided in the Particles to a new location.
"and see if you now have beachfront property..."
When I was at the U of A in Tucson we used to joke about California falling into the ocean along the San Andreas fault line, thus giving us the opportunity to go surfing off the coast of Yuma.
Larry, I can telecommute too; in fact, my free-lance biz is all done that way, but I'd be hard-pressed to keep anything in the fridge/freezer or go out to the local Safeway (which would be having similar problems) if the oil supply dried up.
A very strange list. The methodology wasn't detailed in that article, which makes me wonder just how the research was done. I'm not ascribing nefarious motives, but...
Here's the story about top ten cities prepared for an oil crisis that CNN/Money picked up. Honolulu is barely mentioned, and that one parenthetical sentence is no positive. Hmm.
Eric, did you boggle at Honolulu's presence on that list that Stefan Jones presented up there above your comment?
All our lighting and gas comes from oil shipped in from off-island, and we have a bus system as mass transit. We are anything but accustomed to riding in anything other than our own cars. I'm gonna have to go look at the website which compiled that data to see what supports the conclusion that we're even close to the top ten.
Greg,
Soundtrack from the official site. There's also a "talk-back" section at the top of the page which looks to be a way of posing a question via e-mail.
Greg London, Google "city installation wi-fi." You'll find all manner of announcements about cities planning to do it, including London, New Orleans, Philly, and others. In the US some of the telcoms are fighting tooth and nail to stop it, but I think they're on the losing end.
"the taste they exemplify is the normative streak against which brilliant new things sometimes distinguish themselves. All subcultures have some analog to this."
Aha! "Old school baseball" v. "Sabremetrics."
Stefan Jones, thank you. I hadn't heard that one, and it made me laugh for the first time today. Misadventures with the dog poking her way through our fence and resultant fastening of wire mesh had made me pretty grouchy.
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