After posting the link to Ruhlman on food below I went and caught up on the miles of quite wonderful comments. I like “fussy” pro Mike Pardus’s comment among many others (good for “writer” as well.) “Hi, y’all…….It’s nice to see that things settled down a bit since Michael posted my comments on initial post.For …
Month: July 2008
Things to come..
(To keep my nose to the grindstone…) Book reviews. EXCELLENT new book on why the Mega- Predators are ecologically vital. Science, new and rediscovered (hint: Leopold’s Kaibab redux.) “Whale killers.” Science as well as emotion, written not typed, and re- wilding too! More reviews: Evolution vs ID, Matthiessen’s Florida (still unfinished), Chinese wolf novel ditto. …
Links
According to this story in the Telegraph the most aggressive breed of dog is the dachshund. Lily would not be surprised– she is almost suicidally brave defending herself. Interestingly, Sir Terence Clark tells me that, while he was attending the Saluki Congress in Finland last week, a report was given that Germany has passed new …
Apologies
I seem to be doing this too much; that is, apologizing for lack of content. I think this (often) is an uneasily split- personality blog. Sometimes I am a link aggregator, sometimes a photo blogger; and sometimes I expose my own personality a bit. Trouble is, when I most “need” to do that is when …
NYT on NM Cockfighting
I am sorry, but I think this article on NM’s anti- cockfight crusade can be quoted to make its own argument against the ban. “After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers, backed up by a helicopter, slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus was not illegal immigration or drug smuggling, but a less pressing …
Independence Day
From the Mullenix homestead on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee River, about half way up the state’s western border, Happy Independence Day to all. We’ve got four generations milling about today, all eating hotdogs, hogging the pool and chasing the borzoi around to make him drop the sunscreen. I hope everyone is spending the …
Breed Names
From Luisa at “Lassie Get Help” comes this irresistible compendium of breed names from actual registrations. I have heard “Datsun” for “Dachshund” myself. But how about “Winner ” or “Weiner Boy” or “Doxin” for that breed? Or “Pet Bull” or “Pul Bill” or “Pit Bowl”? How about “Crocker Spaniard” or “Shit Zoo”? More and worse– …
More Links
Is this chameleon the shortest- lived vertebrate? Chameleons rarely live long in captivity– perhaps this is less because of bad treatment than genes! HT Lauren. A wolf shows up in northern New Mexico. I know some will find it suspicious that it arrived on Turner land, but there is no biological reason why not. For …