Bootstrapping for Dummies (49)
A sunny day today. The high was 84˚F, with a heat index of 85˚F.
I was more productive than yesterday. I made a decent start to the phylogenetics discussion section of MP2, trying to make sense of the 30 most parsimonious trees produced by my PAUP4 analysis last weekend. And I wrote my "appreciation" piece on Peter Straub for Locus. The problem, the worst problem besides the inherent sadness of the task, is writing only 500 words. I'll send it off to Tim Pratt tomorrow, after I read it a few more times. Oh, and the proofreading and editing on Bradbury Weather is essentially finished...unless I decide to read over A Barrenness of Daffodils, a Lerna of Ills one last time. Even if I do, it's awfully close to done.
Oh, and I'm back at work on Winifred the Tylosaur. The jacket with the posterior lower left jaw has sat neglected for months. I got back to it a few days ago. I'm using dilute formic acid to remove some of the harder matrix that was slowing things down so much.
This afternoon I saw a really excellent document on Phil Tippett. I was fortunate enough to be introduced to Tippett by the late paleoartist Dan Varner (when Dan and I were working on a never to be realized mosasaur book) during the 1988 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta. There was a "secret" showing of Tippett's Prehistoric Beast (1985) in one of the hotel rooms, and I'm sure I fawned and made an utter dork of myself. But...man, Phil Tibbett. Oh, and I watched an episode of Nova on volcanology.
Tomorrow evening, most likely, those three issues of Sirenia Digest that contain the serialization of Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Nos. 97, 98, 99) will be removed from the Big Cartel shop. So do not say you were not warned.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
2:12 p.m.
I was more productive than yesterday. I made a decent start to the phylogenetics discussion section of MP2, trying to make sense of the 30 most parsimonious trees produced by my PAUP4 analysis last weekend. And I wrote my "appreciation" piece on Peter Straub for Locus. The problem, the worst problem besides the inherent sadness of the task, is writing only 500 words. I'll send it off to Tim Pratt tomorrow, after I read it a few more times. Oh, and the proofreading and editing on Bradbury Weather is essentially finished...unless I decide to read over A Barrenness of Daffodils, a Lerna of Ills one last time. Even if I do, it's awfully close to done.
Oh, and I'm back at work on Winifred the Tylosaur. The jacket with the posterior lower left jaw has sat neglected for months. I got back to it a few days ago. I'm using dilute formic acid to remove some of the harder matrix that was slowing things down so much.
This afternoon I saw a really excellent document on Phil Tippett. I was fortunate enough to be introduced to Tippett by the late paleoartist Dan Varner (when Dan and I were working on a never to be realized mosasaur book) during the 1988 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta. There was a "secret" showing of Tippett's Prehistoric Beast (1985) in one of the hotel rooms, and I'm sure I fawned and made an utter dork of myself. But...man, Phil Tibbett. Oh, and I watched an episode of Nova on volcanology.
Tomorrow evening, most likely, those three issues of Sirenia Digest that contain the serialization of Living a Boy's Adventure Tale (Nos. 97, 98, 99) will be removed from the Big Cartel shop. So do not say you were not warned.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
2:12 p.m.