...or something, anyway ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted, so here's a quick rundown of events since Interfuse ( Read more... )

...and all you can do is hope that whoever's got it is making good use out of it ( Read more... )

…( when all your fingernails are broken off really short. )

It’s times like this that make me think maybe I should stop juggling fire ( Read more... )

Or more just the frosting, I guess ( Read more... )

So I'm back at the Smithsonian for Spring Break, and rather than actually being in the lab, we've been displaced because of stupid politics. So yesterday and today we're in the collections instead, playing with hippo skulls, which is also lots of fun, even if not as messy. Oh well ( Read more... )

We finally finished with the hippo head. It took a 15+ hour day to do it, but we did it. Thursday we got to the lab at about 8:10, and didn’t leave until 11:25. That sucker was thoroughly overripe. The muscles along the back of the skull and a lot on the underside (inside the semicircle of the lower jaw) were just amorphous goo, due to rotting ( Read more... )

We need bumper stickers that say that. Another quote from the other hippo hacker: “We are boldly thinking where no one has thunk before. And we didn’t even have to split an infinitive to do it ( Read more... )

I'd intended to post sooner, but you know, life happens ( Read more... )