Happy Birthday erika!
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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Sue - Sep 18, 2012 1:14:16 am PDT #20412 of 30001
hip deep in pie
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 2:12:34 am PDT #20413 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.
Happy birthday, erika!
sj - Sep 18, 2012 3:01:33 am PDT #20414 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Happy Birthday, erika!!!
I missed Trudy! Of all the nights to actually sleep.
lisah - Sep 18, 2012 3:40:04 am PDT #20415 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Happy birthday, erika!!
Polter-Cow - Sep 18, 2012 3:40:17 am PDT #20416 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
I have that book! I liked it, but it wasn't as great a read as I expected.
Happy birthday, erika!
JenP - Sep 18, 2012 3:41:21 am PDT #20417 of 30001
Happy Birthday, erika!
sumi - Sep 18, 2012 4:52:09 am PDT #20418 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday, erika!
Does Neil Shubin explain why our knees are such a ridiculous design?
billytea - Sep 18, 2012 5:19:25 am PDT #20419 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.
Does Neil Shubin explain why our knees are such a ridiculous design?
I do not know, but I think that's an easy one. We're bipeds getting around on quadrupedal knees. I believe that's also largely what's to blame for hernias, and possibly some of the difficulties of childbirth (though quadrupedal hyenas have that even worse, courtesy of an umbilical cord half the length of the birth canal).
Zenkitty - Sep 18, 2012 5:40:43 am PDT #20420 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Don't hyena females have a pseudo-penis through which they must give birth? Hyenas must exist as the creature that evil people get reincarnated into.
Volans - Sep 18, 2012 5:44:51 am PDT #20421 of 30001
move out and draw fire
Happy birthday erika!
It was a while before Mal could watch Walking With Whatever - I started him a little too early on that and had to coax him out from behind the couch.
However, I watched so much David Attenborough while pregnant that we joked Mal would think that was his father's voice, and seriously he continues to ask for any Attenborough vid by preference.
Also, he wants a platypus. He's been figuring out a way to put a river in our backyard.
This I think is your future, billytea.