Nineteen Days To Something-Or-Other!!
YESSSS! For those who missed yesterday's updates, my vital organs have all grown back successfully, and since I didn't relapse to Slugform during the night, I'm declaring Victory. This is especially timely because there are only six more days left in the semester, followed by a brace of Reading Days, followed by Final Exams! (Cue "Emperor's Theme" from Star Wars.) Thus, for better or for worse, in 19 days, I will be Done with my First Year of Law School! (Insert gif of Kermit the Frog, flailing enthusiastically. No, seriously; YOU are going to need to insert it; I'm having a technologically challenged moment.) Here's a url :
https://youtu.be/tv4KQbDaCfM
In other news:
--I've been following the travels of @UrsulaV in Botswana and the environs. The odds of contracting SnailPox have been hotly debated; recently conducted Internet Research suggests that your risk of having your feet perforated by free-swimming parasitic schistosomiasis larvae goes waaaaay down so long as you have the presence of mind to wade only in water with at least 75% of the salt normally found in seawater. YMMV.
--Elsewhere, oxpeckers may be more classifiable as parasites than symbionts (thanks to Richard Roberts, aka @MadeOfTeeth Craig, Adrian (2009). "Family Buphagidae (Oxpeckers)". In del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Christie, David. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. pp. 642-653. ISBN 978-84-96553-50-7.) @MadeOfTeeth also postulates a delightful prospective evolutionary pathway for oxpeckers which produces the Great Downy Stegosaurus and its thermoregulatory FLOOFing of feathers, but you'll have to contact him directly to get the full story, because I'm still insufficiently Twitterliterate to capture the entire hilarious serious of tweets.
What else may interest you...? Hm:
--At a secret lair in Florida, a Jaguar vogues upon receipt of gouache: http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/1472581.html
--Statistical analysis helps enlighten both experience and perception of bias (ideally promoting more understanding and less dismissiveness in discussing these topics):
http://rowyn.livejournal.com/531199.html
--And, the Nissan Juke is promoted from "co-conspirator" to "bad influence":
http://iron-fox21.livejournal.com/1930.html
That's all I've got for the moment. Have a lovely diurnal anomaly, and enjoy your organ systems!
--msh--
https://youtu.be/tv4KQbDaCfM
In other news:
--I've been following the travels of @UrsulaV in Botswana and the environs. The odds of contracting SnailPox have been hotly debated; recently conducted Internet Research suggests that your risk of having your feet perforated by free-swimming parasitic schistosomiasis larvae goes waaaaay down so long as you have the presence of mind to wade only in water with at least 75% of the salt normally found in seawater. YMMV.
--Elsewhere, oxpeckers may be more classifiable as parasites than symbionts (thanks to Richard Roberts, aka @MadeOfTeeth Craig, Adrian (2009). "Family Buphagidae (Oxpeckers)". In del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Christie, David. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. pp. 642-653. ISBN 978-84-96553-50-7.) @MadeOfTeeth also postulates a delightful prospective evolutionary pathway for oxpeckers which produces the Great Downy Stegosaurus and its thermoregulatory FLOOFing of feathers, but you'll have to contact him directly to get the full story, because I'm still insufficiently Twitterliterate to capture the entire hilarious serious of tweets.
What else may interest you...? Hm:
--At a secret lair in Florida, a Jaguar vogues upon receipt of gouache: http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/1472581.html
--Statistical analysis helps enlighten both experience and perception of bias (ideally promoting more understanding and less dismissiveness in discussing these topics):
http://rowyn.livejournal.com/531199.html
--And, the Nissan Juke is promoted from "co-conspirator" to "bad influence":
http://iron-fox21.livejournal.com/1930.html
That's all I've got for the moment. Have a lovely diurnal anomaly, and enjoy your organ systems!
--msh--