Trudy! Hi! Welcome back! I missed you.
Apatosaurus
I pat a saurus, too. Whenever they let me. They're bitey, you know.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Zenkitty - Sep 17, 2012 6:16:24 pm PDT #20402 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Burrell - Sep 17, 2012 7:33:25 pm PDT #20403 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Good news, Kate.
Is that the Walking with Monsters series, with things like the Burgess Shale fauna and the gigantic millipede? I love that series, though there are apparently a number of inaccuracies. Nonetheless, it's great stuff.
Yes that's the one. We love it too, it just made it all seem so real. Like a nature show only instead of herds of gazelle running across the plain we get herds of iguanodon.
billytea - Sep 17, 2012 7:55:30 pm PDT #20404 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I want to watch Walking with Monsters now. I'm very impressionable!
Yes that's the one. We love it too, it just made it all seem so real. Like a nature show only instead of herds of gazelle running across the plain we get herds of iguanodon.
I remember that herd, that was the Ornithocheirus ep, I think. That reminds me, when I saw David Attenborough (saying that never gets old) they played a clip from a recent effort of his, Flying Monsters 3D, on pterosaurs. Fun clip.
Cass - Sep 17, 2012 8:25:38 pm PDT #20405 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I want to watch Walking with Monsters now. I'm very impressionable!
On Netflix streaming, if you have it. Fun series.
That reminds me, when I saw David Attenborough (saying that never gets old)
It should NEVER get old. I expect to talk about David Attenborough with the phrase, and billytea saw him, for ... ever. Because it's David Attenborough and you saw him speak. That's epic.
I really love David Attenborough.
billytea - Sep 17, 2012 8:42:12 pm PDT #20406 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
On Netflix streaming, if you have it. Fun series.
I live in a whole different country, so no. But what I do have is Walking with Monsters. By which I mean that I'm watching it now. When I said I wanted to watch it, I guess what I really meant was "I want to walk to the other end of the house and pull it off the bookshelf in the theatre room".
It should NEVER get old. I expect to talk about David Attenborough with the phrase, and billytea saw him, for ... ever. Because it's David Attenborough and you saw him speak. That's epic.
He was awesome. And surprisingly good at accents. Here I will put in a plug for his autobiography, "Life on Air": [link] It's an excellent and entertaining telling of a remarkable life.
billytea - Sep 17, 2012 8:47:29 pm PDT #20407 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Haikouichthys! Animal bodies are so extraordinarily complex today. It's worth remembering how much simpler they were back in their early evolutionary history.
Time for another plug. This book concerns the science of evolutionary development (evo devo), or how regulatory genes control the growth of a creature (including us): [link]
Cass - Sep 17, 2012 9:22:02 pm PDT #20408 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I live in a whole different country, so no. But what I do have is Walking with Monsters. By which I mean that I'm watching it now. When I said I wanted to watch it, I guess what I really meant was "I want to walk to the other end of the house and pull it off the bookshelf in the theatre room".
How crassly US-centric of me. I sort of thought they were everywhere that had the tubes filled with cats and, likely, pornography.
Still, I would like to walk to my bookcase and watch awesome stuff. I don't have nearly enough documentaries on hand. I just depend on the kindness of internets.
This book concerns the science of evolutionary development (evo devo), or how regulatory genes control the growth of a creature (including us)
SOLD!
I mean, I would like to purchase this book and read the heck out of it.
billytea - Sep 17, 2012 9:30:54 pm PDT #20409 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
How crassly US-centric of me. I sort of thought they were everywhere that had the tubes filled with cats and, likely, pornography.
We have a local version, Quickflix, which I'm currently using to go through The Good Wife, Parks and Recreation and Waking the Dead. (Taking Biyi through the first two.) I don't use streaming though, just Luddite-friendly disc rental.
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 1:08:43 am PDT #20410 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Monsters have now finished their walkies. And I should recommend another book. Endless Forms Most Beautiful is specifically about evo devo, but another book that has a lot to say on the subject - and I think puts it into a more interesting context - is Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish. [link]
The story behind it: the author, Neil Shubin, is one of the discoverers of Tiktaalik. [link] This is a very important transitional fossil - a lobe-finned fish from the time when tetrapods - land vertebrates - were first evolving. If not our own direct ancestor, it's a close offshoot.
Shubin used this as a starting point to discuss the evolution of the various components of our (tetrapod) bodies, and specifically what we can learn from the comparison to Tiktaalik. It's a very effective narrative structure, and when talking about how bodies developed, necessarily pulls in a lot of good information on evo devo.
Calli - Sep 18, 2012 1:09:14 am PDT #20411 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Isn't today erikaj's birthday? Happy birthday!