I took Arkel's quiz not because I do such things, but because I'm still looking for panniers and, while I'd written Arkel off because their THESE ARE MADE FOR BIG TOURS panniers were far too expensive for me, a friend just mentioned the ones he's planning on getting which would do the job just fine and aren't nearly as pricey, and so my list of ( Read more... )

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Golden frog that communicates by semaphore, kind of.

strange behaviour of a species of Caecilian - the first time I saw our aquatic ones I first thought - eel? snake? worm?

I'd like to see that series! Wonder if it'll come out on DVD like Private Life of Plants.

educational floral porn

Four eyes! Four eyes! I wish I had the adaptation Anableps anableps has for seeing above and below the water.

In my world, any light not used in the signaling of a turn spontaneously combusts and leaves behind a healthily-sized crater in the offending driver's car.

Unrelated - for isomorphisms, a few photos.

Miniscule - an awesome animation series with a cute, though slightly annoying website
(Parts) of some episodes are on youtube.

It's quite fantastic, the number of TAs who cannot follow instructions for submitting marks. Both undergrad _and_ grad. Let's not count those who seemed not to have known the existence of the post with the instructions on the instructors-and-TAs-only board. I'll give allowances to the undergrads, but how did those grad students get admitted?

I logged about 77 km today. Having not seen real sun in weeks, I brought my camera along, and did a leisurely ride. It started here. Click forward to follow my ride!

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