A nice experience 12 Oct 2007 My mate Ian Musgrave, Astroblogger and expert in several fields of science, and his lovely family, are up visiting rellies in Queensland from the arid wasteland that is Adelaide. We all went on a bushwalk and while we were eating apples at the top of the cliff, we saw a couple of dolphins (bottlenose, I think), a mother and calf. Way cool… All you urban prisoners should be quite envious. Administrative Humor
Humor I’ve been LOL’d!!1 17 Jul 20084 Oct 2017 Courtesy James F in the “Getting Rid of Darwinism” comments Read More
Academe The end of a dream… for now 21 Dec 20109 Jan 2023 A while back I declared that my career was over as an academic because things were going to hell. Instead, things went on to get better, and I got a postdoctoral research fellowship at Sydney. So I looked like a real putz. Then I got an associate professorship at a… Read More
Administrative PZombies in Brisbane! 30 May 200818 Sep 2017 So we managed to attract 5 local PZombies (Craig, you are in trouble for not turning up!) on a wet Brisbane night. We had some interesting discussions (which I fear means that others listened to me nonstop) over beer. It’s nice to know that those of us who are in… Read More
Rest assured we are envious – except for Myers who’d simply deride your experience because it didn’t involve atheist squid….
We pay no attention to Mshzlkhst, because he is beneath our notice. We are not in the slightest envious of his high readership, beautiful wife and children, or tenured job. Or his comparative youth. Not at all.
Since I live in a country where I can not have a trophy wife, were I so inclined, I can only weep. However, this urban dweller does live a reasonably short ride away from locations where people can watch migrating gray whales; one of which is used for the “official” census. We are also seeing an increase in blue whale sightings, probably because of climate change.