Knit Darwin’s tree 27 Sep 200818 Sep 2017 If any of my readers are good knitters, check this out: The pattern, not the girl. Preverts! Hat tip: Colin Purrington Evolution Humor
Evolution Vagabonds in taxonomy 27 Jul 2008 A new genus name for water mites, from a recent paper in Zootaxa: Vagabundia comes from the Spanish word ‘vagabundo’ that means ‘wanderer’. It is a feminine substantive; sci refers to Science Citation Index. We pointed out some time ago (Valdecasas et al. 2000) that the popularity of the Science… Read More
Evolution Quotemining in the 19thC 23 Jul 2009 Dispersal of Darwin again has an excellent piece of the history of evolution: he traces the quotemining by the theologians in the 1880s of John Tyndal, a known Darwinian of the day, to “show” that evolution is unproven and speculation. It seems that the dishonesty is unchanging. Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Species as objects of explanation 11 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 Following on from my previous post “Are species theoretical objects”, I want now to discuss what the status of species as phenomenal objects is. Read More
My audience are all old farts, in virtue of liking my blog. Hence it’s just gross to look at… err.. look at …. Look, I’m a bit distracted right now, OK?
My audience are all old farts, in virtue of liking my blog. Hence it’s just gross to look at… err.. look at …. Look, I’m a bit distracted right now, OK?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel, Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here. Col. “Bat” Guano: You wanna know what I think? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Yes. Col. “Bat” Guano: I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your prevertion, and you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
but it doesn’t have “I think” scrawled on it anywhere… that’s the most endearing thing about that first tree
From digging around her blog, the tattoo seems to be Charles D. — but it is a temporary. It does look good though (as does she).
Talk about a sucker punch! If you really wanted us to focus on the pattern, you could’ve just photoshop-cropped that section. Preverts indeed.
Antiquated Tory (isn’t that an oxymoron?) wrote: “Knitted SHORTS?!?!?!” I’d eat those shorts if she was wearing them!
Antiquated Tory (isn’t that an oxymoron?) wrote: “Knitted SHORTS?!?!?!” I’d eat those shorts if she was wearing them!
I suspect my knitting girlfriend will have the same reaction as Tory’s wife (you’re too late now, AT, but the correct counter-argument involves the keeping of anatomy warm). Anyway, John, who are you calling old?
My knitting wife’s reaction to those was, “Ok, let me work out how many balls of yarn that will take, and you pick the color.” I married well. 🙂