Chas has a pic up he took while visiting what he call our “Operation Ocotillo terraforming demonstration project”. You can see Libby and me in the background. In this spirit, I thought I’d post pics of another Martian locus here, with the caption: “Though we hadn’t yet added water, the dry habitat game was abundant, …
Tag: Random Weirdness
Late (Navajo) Barbie
Reid chips in late on the NM Barbie meme, via email: “I have been so swamped I haven’t had a chance to post my contribution to New Mexico Barbies. “How about Shiprock Barbie, though her real name is Barbie Begay, and her boyfriend, Ken Yazzie. Options include Hosteen Begay’s Hogan with loom and sheep pen. …
Crow and Kitten
Annie D sent this remarkable video. It seems legit!
Catron County Barbie
Peculiar has called me out on the New Mexico Barbie meme: what is Catron (Cabron, Cartoon) County Barbie like? Catron County is a strange one in our strange state– I have good friends there (next county over from me) who would be unbelievable in fiction. It is high and cold and mountainous, contains a few …
New Mexico Barbies
This is almost too “inside”, both bloggish and totally of New Mexico– but too funny to ignore. Stingray at Atomic Nerds has taken my challenge over at Nature Blog to add a Los Alamos Barbie to the already excellent collection of New Mexico Barbies there. Here is an excerpt. “..Los Alamos Barbie often comes with …
Sunday Links
We have all heard the legends of dolphins helping drowning humans. Now one appears to have helped guide stranded whales to safety. John Wilkins, who posts at the interesting evo- blog Evolving thoughts, went to see Richard Dawkins lecture and had some critical thoughts. I can’t resist quoting: “In particular I was annoyed that those …
Bear with me..
Two weeks of agent & publisher hell, slowly receding. Blogging may be light for a bit yet but here are some links, and there will be photoblogging of various creatures later. Nature and science. Carel blogs on an extremely odd, newly discovered snake that apparently has evolved a “lure” on the end of its tail. …
Links, Apologia…
If I can ever finish the saga of my completed but yet…unfulfilled?.. book, it will be a good one, or at least a lesson in the vagaries of contemporary publishing that would fulfill every cynical belief of Michael Blowhard. It has been that kind of month. Meanwhile, links and various photos. Science and nature: Paleoblog …
Falcon and the Snowjob
Relating to the recent pics of GWB hanging out in the Saudi weathering yard, Anne found this post by “BWildered” at the liberal blogsite Daily Kos: “Were you, like me, treated to an Abu Dhabi photo-op? Abu Dhabi royals introducing George W Bush to the arts and sciences of falconry. Where are the sharp-eyed falcons …
What is this?
Annie D. sent a pic of this little critter titled “baby chupacabra”. She was kidding but we don’t know what it might be. I think the ears look rather “batty”, but as Annie says it has an apparent tail. Marsupial? Anyone have an idea? Darren? Carel? Update: “Batwrangler” Sheila comes up with an ID: it’s …