February 23, 2007
Just realized, while tidying up today, that I have two book shelves FULL of field guides. What can I say? I love books, I’m curious about the natural world and I make collections.
I’m lucky enough that I have a discount/used book store where I can usually stock up (my latest purchases there were Observing the Moon and the Stokes’ Animal Tracking and Behavior.
I’m most excited about a book I had to order from Alibris: Myxomycetes: A Handbook of Slime Molds. I think that Slime Molds are the neatest thing.
February 15, 2007
This is what I do when I should be working on my comprehensives. Oh well, reading week is for, well, doing anything but reading.
Browsing my RSS feeds (I guess that counts as reading, doesn’t it?) I noticed that Jason Kottke had posted about origami. In the post, inspired by a recent article on Robert Lang, an origamist extraordinaire, Kottke posted a link to a simple origami project and a photo of the finished product.
In the past I’ve been more than frustrated by paper folding; I think it’s the representation of a three dimensional object in two dimensions that gets me. But, after having stumbled through the instructions once (and getting the subject of the next photo in my stream), I ended up with my very own post-it-note box. What an achievement!
February 14, 2007
Sad, but true:
And the reason why this is an image is because spammers harvest email addresses from pages. Update your respective address books.
Proof? I was labelling all the email from my gavan account in Gmail. Here’s a screen shot of my junk folder:
See you later Norman Felbert, Paavo Sheilds, JayTonya Kerkoulova, Anthony Garcia & the obtusely named “peripheral”. If those are your real names…
