So, here I am in Arizona, still 9 Mar 2008 Yeah, yeah, OK, I know I’ve been absent except on the comments, but I’m traveling, all right? Everything I have worth saying gets said over beer or whiskey, tonight to Jim Lippard and John Lynch, the latter of whom is my present host. I must thank Malte Ebach for his hospitality over the past week too. On to Utah on Wednesday. Lynch tells me I’m off to see fossils and stuff in Tucson tomorrow. I hope he means geological fossils, and not my contemporaries. Even I think I’m an old fogey. Speaking of fogeys, it’s PZ Mashgvsihem’s birthday. He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. Despite his complete lack of appreciation of subtle philosophy, he’s really not so bad for a cephalopod loving Satanic destroyer of all that is decent. Go wish him a happy birthday, or say a prayer in the comments. He loves that, you know… Administrative History
Administrative A paperback of Species: A History 12 Jan 2011 My not-inconsiderable ego has expanded several sizes upon the news from University of California Press that my book Species: A History of the Idea (see at right or on the My Books page) is to become a paperback. I hope to make a couple of corrections, and maybe add a… Read More
History The classification of clouds 26 Nov 201228 Nov 2012 [A segment of my new book, coauthored with Malte Ebach] The classification of clouds Clouds were regarded as so subjective, fleeting and resistant to classification that they were a byword for the failure of empirical classification, until Luke Howard in 1802 proposed the foundation for our present system of cloud… Read More
Administrative Some stats 14 Aug 201018 Sep 2017 It occurred to me that I don’t do a very good job of tracking the stats of the three incarnations of this blog. So here they are: Posts Hits ET 1 : 411 142,117 ET 2 @ Scienceblogs : 1,272 912,249 ET 3 : 618 tba 2,712 1,054,366 Ho. Ly…. Read More
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
He is only slightly less fogeyish than I – he has three 17 year olds in his head, while I have them plus a one year old, which is why it’s so noisy inside here. I’ve no idea what you are chundering on about. I’ve got you both beat by a handful and I’m still trying to work out how to become a responsible adult. Old fogies indeed, don’t you know that life begins at seventy.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.
Life begins at forty, Thony C. Seventy almost no sexual life…. don’t trust Chinese proverb, I mean this time. I took a quick visit to PZ, I felt that here is more lovely more graceful, perhaps more civilized. Keep on, John.