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
Creationism and Intelligent Design On the lateral transfer post 2 Apr 2009 Well yes it was a joke. But it was based on the inappropriate manner in which the well-known work on lateral transfer was reported by New Scientist as showing that Darwin was wrong. That genes occasionally cross over taxonomic borders among single celled organisms by transduction (viral exchange), conjugation (sharing… Read More
Evolution Ardi rules 2 Oct 2009 Some conclusions about Ardipithecus ramidus : 1. It may be a human ancestor or it may not. We do not know. 2. It had relatively little sexual dimorphism like humans. 3. It walked on two legs, but not well, and probably lived in woodlands. 4. It ate fruit and some… Read More
Evolution On the supposed bottleneck 70,000 years ago 3 May 2008 John Hawks has a very nice post for people with basic math, explaining why a recent press release announced that 70,000 years ago the human species encountered a population bottleneck of 2000 individuals, and why it’s most likely wrong. In the process he explains effective population size. It’s a tad… 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. 🙂