I just cooked corn on the cob by wrapping it in a wet paper towel and microwaving it.

Last night I cooked hamburgers with a George Foreman grill.

Woo convenience cooking!

Thanks to funding from various parts of the university and the advisor's grant, I went to the Fourth International Trilobite Conference in Toledo, Spain. And I basically forgot to take pictures. Damn. Anyway, here's some representative ones.


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So, I attempted to ask the Internet how to say "God's horse shall fuck you" in Hungarian, because I couldn't find the quote in the book that I read it in originally. Instead, I found an Ethnology article all about Hungarian profanity. It is amazing ( Read more... )

I've been back a while now, but too lazy to post pictures ( Read more... )

I am back in Utah for fieldwork. Today was day 5 of actually being in the Tule Valley, not just settling into the bargain motel in Delta. Days 1 and 2 were at H, same as last year. Days 3 through tomorrow are at sections C and D. They are beastly. D is accessible only up a very steep gully, which conveniently has a 40-foot cliff that has to be ( Read more... )

I hate crackout faunas. Hate hate hate. There are inevitably about four sclerites representing a "species", none of which is totally whole or fully exposed, some of which are exfoliated to hell, most of which lack any non-dorsal view, and alarmingly many of which don't appear to belong to the same species ( Read more... )

I started going to the gym again. Actually, it's probably premature to say that, since I just bought the pass and went once today. Supposed goal: cardio every day except maybe Tuesdays, and some weights every other day, or maybe an upper/lower split, although that will probably kill me until I get more adept at the elliptical ( Read more... )

So... I thought that the house was shaking because someone upstairs was jumping rope.

How utterly naive of me. I guess they're just quiet except for the shaking.

Bats are making noises inside my wall, or possibly under the eaves above my window. I don't mind bats, but their presence puzzles me.
What the hell are they eating this time of year that enables them not to be hibernating? Whatever it is, I hope it's not also in my walls.
At least they are bats, not mice or raccoons.

Printed in red ink inside my Snickers wrapper (formatting preserved):

Substantialiscious \sub-'stan(t)-shu-'li-shus\
(noun). The weight of something when you weigh it
with your tongue.

If they weren't so tasty, I'd strongly consider not buying them.