A notice of ET 8 Apr 2010 We here at the Institute for Making Computer Keys Click are often disheartened by the lack of public notice of our efforts, unlike that rat bastard PZ Meds who seems to have cornered the entire internet, and that which he doesn’t have, that rat bastard Bora at A Blog Around the Clock (he’s not kidding! Guy never sleeps!) has. My measly 20 readers are basically the audience those two haven’t managed to isolate and capture yet. So it’s nice when the IMCKC is given some kudos, and we grasp at it greedily. Hence, notice that ET has been deemed one of the top 50 Biology Research Blogs at Medicalicious (why can’t I think up such clever blog names?). Yes, I’m lumped in with PZ and Bora, but I’m also lumped in with such worthies as John Lynch and Mike Dunford, both of whom I have leeched off while travelling. And there’s some loopy Canadian guy there too… Administrative Biology Humor
History Chocolate history 20 Jan 2013 Reader Jeb McLeish has brought to my attention an early attempt to do the metaphysics of chocolate: The Natural History of Chocolate by D. de Quelus (1730): The Spaniards, who were first acquainted with Chocolate after the Conquest of the new World, have laid it down for an undoubted Truth, that Chocolate is cold and… Read More
Administrative A philosophy blog 24 Jul 2010 I have only just found the blog Journeyman Philosopher by Paul Mealing, a fellow Australian. It is a thoughtful and infrequent blog in which he deals with everything from quantum mechanics and time through to popular culture and speciation. I strongly recommend subscribing to this one. Mealing is a writer,… Read More
Administrative Admin notice 8 Mar 20218 Mar 2021 Just so you all know: I have been given a part-time formal position for a couple of years teaching at the University of Melbourne. Concurrently, I have been preparing two book chapters, editing a book, and writing a book. So ET has been rather neglected. My apologies. It will resume… Read More
Those of us in the By Touch division, not to be confused with those idiots in Hunt and Peck, are not bored to be noticed as part of the few, the proud, the measly 20. Don’t believe the morons in Wireless if they tell you some of us also read Farinjulia or speak Canadian.
If the Institute is looking for a new name might I humbly submit Qwertynaceous? As for Canadian loopiness, that was established when their primary exports were William Shatner and Celine Dion. Pluralist professors were just icing on the cake.
Yes, I’m lumped in with PZ and Bora, but I’m also lumped in with such worthies as John Lynch and Mike Dunford, both of whom I have leeched off while travelling. And there’s some loopy Canadian guy there too… I resent that remark. Did you forget you also leached off me while traveling in Canada!
The Institute for Making Computer Keys Click? This xkcd cartoon seems as if it could have taken place there.
Hey! You are listed above PZ in that list! Not bad at all. And over at wikio you are number 36 in the science blogs list (but PZ is only 32, the top blogs are dominated by climate change at wikio), being in the top 50 is not shabby. On wikio I am a lowly 52 🙁
I resent the prejudice against the Hunt and Peck Division. Since our division has at least one member, that’s five percent of the readership. Though I am suspicious of the claimed figure of 20 readers; methinks the venerable silverback is engaging in (uncharacteristic? perish the thought!) modesty.
First, I am a six and a half finger typist (literally! I lack half a finger), and I must watch the keyboard when I type, so make that 2/21, or about 9.5%. I am never modest, but as a descendent of Englishpersons, I must occasionally engage in litotes.
damn, now I have to look up Litotes (a town in Thrace, I always thought. Rhetoric, on the other hand, was in the Peloponnese.) Ever learning…
Is your snide reference to litotes a snarky reference to “not bored”? By Touch Division is also not unhappy, not displeased to be Finally Noticed, and notes that we may not be inserting the felt padding that some who felt disenfranchised suggested.
“My measly 20 readers are basically the audience those two haven’t managed to isolate and capture yet. ” Well and one student from germany who briefly talked to you and shook hands with, after hearing a lecture in Göttingen (sadly, not the one you held). But who is this Mayers you speak of?
Yet another list that displays its shallowness by not including Darren Naish’s most excellent Tetrapod Zoology blog.