Terrapin Procrastination

I have serendipitously discovered the most astounding proof that no matter how far you extend microprocrastination, it can never become ma...

via Chris Clarke : In 1926, a guy named Burton Frasher photographed a desert landscape in a place called Centennial Flat , not far from D...

At 10:28 PM Pharyngula timestamp time (=EST) on February 24, 2010, teh Eternal Thread reached exactly one year in age. From shortly after i...

      Thelonious Sphere Monk? Yes, please. Now listening ...hoo!

...if only I had the skillz to replace the soundtrack with...mmm...'The Porpoise Song'? 'Blue Jay Way'? 'White Rabbit...

Imagine that Martin Scorsese directed a CGI short about a coal train rolling down the hill from Cima to Kelso with NOBODY DRIVING THE TRAIN...

Following the recent embarrassing trouncing of my once-bold-seeming prediction by that darn reality , I hesitate to prognosticate again. ...

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This sentence links to a typically incendiary blog post by Chris Clarke.

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With the 20K and 1 y stumbling blocks milestones approaching, a first stab at some comparative subThread-level trends. First, subThread d...

A reasonably current synopsis:

newstyle oldstyle is better, yes?

Presumably you know what I'm talking about already; if not this is unlikely to be of interest. Teh Cephalopodian Overlord of Pharyngul...

for Cat's Cradle alone, but so much more too. for Sometimes a Great Notion alone, but so much more too. one more Kesey shot:

Having deployed sophisticated computer modelling techniques, I am now prepared to formally predict that Teh Thread Everlasting will exceed 2...

Sir David Attenborough’s Tree of Life (please start here!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IrUUDboZo (a little animal/vertebrate-centric ...

A comment from Dania on The Thread Everlasting tapped into an interesting period in the history of The Thread when its death was prematurel...

(click to enlarge) Annual breast-cancer death rates squares: "black" women triangles: "white" women curves are quadratic...

HST: OK.

For lyrical and musical honesty.

actually a small subset thereof

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Nassau was pretty good musically and fun personally; MSG was awesome in both departments. Hoo!

So it looks like I'm going to both the Nausea Mausoleum Nassau Coliseum and Madison Square Garden shows this weekend, Friday and Saturd...

I quote from Blair Jackson's excellent liner notes to the recent archival Grateful Dead release , recorded in Feb. 1968: ...hipster hero...

Soon, all internet communication will consist solely of acronyms. You read it here first. (Or not.)

Miles Davis , finest musician of my lifetime IMO.

I was inspired by this post over at Darren Naish's always-fascinating Tet Zoo blog to post one of my favorite photos (h/t Joe Bidwell)

Yes, my 1996 Jeep Cherokee is featured on Google Maps' Street View! See here .

That's George A. Bartholomew , my intellectual role model. Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and inspiring, if low-key,...

Where "it" was comment #1000 and "that much" was an hour and 41 minutes. *shrug*

PZ Myers sez : "if this turns into another thousand comment thread, I shall be very, very cranky." Current projections, based on d...

You know? I mean, who cares?

In the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead

Darwin's Reach , an interdisciplinary conference, March 2009

"I blog, therefore I yam what I yam" -Popeye Descartes