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
Administrative Travel Diary 3 6 Oct 2009 Here I am in Erlangen, after two whirlwind days with Thony Christie, seeing Albert Speer’s version of the Coliseum, lots of Nurnberg and Erlangen sites, and some originals of Conrad Gesner’s never-completed Historia Plantarum. That man was a damned good artist. I owe Thony some serious thanks. But I signed… Read More
Administrative More roundup 15 Sep 2008 Mohan Matthen, a philosopher of biology, has a very nice takedown of Thomas Nagel’s qualified support for teaching creationism on his blog. Hat tip Leiter. Richard Losick has an excellent piece on the problems of using cultured lab strains when studying microbes, at Small Things Considered. A new blog on… Read More
Biology mtDNA varies in a single individual 4 Mar 2010 It turns out, according to a recent study, that mitochondrial genomes vary within a single normal individual (human, but we should be able to generalise). What, I wonder, does this mean for the use of DNA barcoding? 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.