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
Administrative Off to the wilds of Oxfordshire 14 May 2010 So, tomorrow I fly to Oxford (well, to Heathrow, and bus to Oxford) to this conference on religion and toleration. It looks to be an interesting conference, and I am commenting on a paper by one of my favourite anthropologist/psychologists, Ara Norenzayan from UBC. It includes such luminaries as Amartya… Read More
Evolution Strong reciprocity 22 Sep 2007 On Friday I assessed an essay by a masters student on the evolution of reciprocity and altruism (she cleverly introduced a notion of benevolent behaviour rather than “altruism” in social contexts, to avoid confusion with genetic altruism. Then today my various feeds identified this rather excellent essay (more of a… 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. 🙂