7 incredibly loyal dogs

I'm currently watching Life on Earth. It's fascinating in and of itself, of course; but also because it's now over thirty years old, and it's interesting to see where our understanding has advanced since then. Most are relatively minor (for instance, they still have Hallucigenia, a fossil from the Burgess Shale, upside down, and the Indonesian coelocanth population was still unknown); but now we're in the episode on reptiles, and his discussion of the extinction of the dinosaurs simply rejects the possibility of a catastrophic event in favour of gradual climate change.

It was about a year or two after the series was produced that Professor Alvarez put forward his evidence of a massive asteroid impact right at the K-T boundary, and longer before the Chicxulub crater at the Yucatan peninsula was fingered as the point of impact. It's very interesting, taking a trip back to the scientific arguments before those discoveries.

I don't want to be an adult today.

Do I have to?

What wonderful doggies! That made me cry, but the loyalty of dogs is a known crypoint for me. I cry just thinking about Jurassic Bark, for example.

Perkins, I vote no. I think you should go outside and play hopscotch!

This sentence from a Tribune article on our snowstorm amused me for some reason:

The snow also is likely to be what the weather service described as "fluffy."

(They mention that because the fluffy is more likely to drift.)

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Fluffy is usually a good adjective, too.

I'm fascinated that there are so many technological aids for potty training these days. (In my day, we just held it, going uphill both ways...)

Perkins, I vote no. I think you should go outside and play hopscotch!

I'm not sure I want to go outside today either. I think all my spoons may still be asleep.

I'm currently watching Life on Earth. It's fascinating in and of itself, of course; but also because it's now over thirty years old,

They had a set of James Burke's Connections at Amoeba the other day and I was wondering how they'd hold up. They were always so fun to watch as he wove together all the technological innovations that went into something like motion pictures.

And I gambled wrong. I feel worse this morning than last, although I said I was going to go into the office today. What I'd really love to do is be off sick, but I don't have that option until February.

I wonder where my argument with the rest of the project team is this morning? The IT lead is in the Central time zone, so he's had a chance to get a leg up on all of us. But I'm only mildly irritated by him. It's the PM who thought she had to convince me to work hard on this project that really pissed me off.

Do TiVos generate logs? I woke up to mine pushing static this morning (to you people who harsh on Neuromancer because the description is out of date, your window has come and gone). I'd really like to know what it crapped out doing.

I wish someone had told me about heating pizzas in the microwave and skillet earlier. Everything after the initial serving of Papa John's pizza was so disgusting, and now it's just as servicable as it was at first (which I like, so don't even bother).

I just gave blood and I feel like maybe it was a mistake to do at work. I feel like I usually do after, but forgot that is slightly woozy and lazier than usual for a while....