Pycnonemosaurus in December
There will likely be typos.
Cold today. Our high was 55F, after an overnight low of 30F. Sunny, though.
Just got a good email from Drew Gentry, concerning a collaboration we've had in the works for a few years now. Otherwise, not much of a day. I was ill all night, and it leaked out into the day. I managed a few emails.Some Bashi. A little bit of work on my portion of MP2 (I guess my next paper with Drew will be MT3), mostly working out the degree to which the mesokinetic joint in the cranium of this new mosasaur was, in fact, akinetic. This condition becomes very common in later mosasaurs (Plotosaurus, Goronoyosaurus, etc.) those after the mid-Campanian. The skulls become very rigid compared to the highly kinetic skulls of less derived, earlier taxa, like Clidastes and Platecarpus. But...I prattle. I read some old JVP papers. I fell asleep in my office chair listening to Bruce Springsteen.
On Facebook, I wrote: There are few things more dangerous, to a society and to individual freedoms, than a revolutionary who believes they're "on the right side of history" and is willing to deprive others of their various freedoms to further their own ends. (Keeping in mind I take a dim view of revolutions in general, as they lead so rarely to anything but chaos, totalitarianism, death, and misery). This idea of "being on the right side of history" as opposed to merely working incrementally towards greater freedoms (an inherently subjective idea), as you define freedom, is monstrously arrogant and presupposes knowledge of what cannot be known. We cannot know the eventual consequences of our actions. Obviously. Which actually led to an interesting thread.
Oh, and As a (mostly) lifelong Southerner I am ashamed to say it took me so many decades to discover that few things are as delicious as grilled baloney and pimento cheese sandwich. Add a Dr. Pepper, and a moon pie on the side, perfect lunch. No, seriously. Try it.
I posted a favorite, and currently very apt, Camus quote: "Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."
Um...also...there this stupid thing called Roblox (Spooky told me about it), which is sorta like Second Life for people raised on Minecraft, only instead of Legos, things look very Playskool. You know, for grownups. Jesus, the world is getting dumber and dumber.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
8:08 a.m.
Cold today. Our high was 55F, after an overnight low of 30F. Sunny, though.
Just got a good email from Drew Gentry, concerning a collaboration we've had in the works for a few years now. Otherwise, not much of a day. I was ill all night, and it leaked out into the day. I managed a few emails.Some Bashi. A little bit of work on my portion of MP2 (I guess my next paper with Drew will be MT3), mostly working out the degree to which the mesokinetic joint in the cranium of this new mosasaur was, in fact, akinetic. This condition becomes very common in later mosasaurs (Plotosaurus, Goronoyosaurus, etc.) those after the mid-Campanian. The skulls become very rigid compared to the highly kinetic skulls of less derived, earlier taxa, like Clidastes and Platecarpus. But...I prattle. I read some old JVP papers. I fell asleep in my office chair listening to Bruce Springsteen.
On Facebook, I wrote: There are few things more dangerous, to a society and to individual freedoms, than a revolutionary who believes they're "on the right side of history" and is willing to deprive others of their various freedoms to further their own ends. (Keeping in mind I take a dim view of revolutions in general, as they lead so rarely to anything but chaos, totalitarianism, death, and misery). This idea of "being on the right side of history" as opposed to merely working incrementally towards greater freedoms (an inherently subjective idea), as you define freedom, is monstrously arrogant and presupposes knowledge of what cannot be known. We cannot know the eventual consequences of our actions. Obviously. Which actually led to an interesting thread.
Oh, and As a (mostly) lifelong Southerner I am ashamed to say it took me so many decades to discover that few things are as delicious as grilled baloney and pimento cheese sandwich. Add a Dr. Pepper, and a moon pie on the side, perfect lunch. No, seriously. Try it.
I posted a favorite, and currently very apt, Camus quote: "Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."
Um...also...there this stupid thing called Roblox (Spooky told me about it), which is sorta like Second Life for people raised on Minecraft, only instead of Legos, things look very Playskool. You know, for grownups. Jesus, the world is getting dumber and dumber.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
8:08 a.m.