Once again, our beloved paleoentomology nerdlings at ScienceDaily.com have failed to disappoint. Ancient ‘Daddy Long Legs’ Revealed in 3-D Models! I just had to get a load of this particular 300-million-year-old Great-Great-Granddaddy Long Legs. (300-million-year-old Daddy Long Legs) It reminded me of when I first caught a glimpse of a 49-million-year-old spider, as I wrote [...]
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Ancient ‘Daddy Long Legs’ Revealed in 3-D Models
Posted in History, Life, Musings, News/Current Events, Personal Observations, Science, Thoughts, tagged Charles Darwin, daddy long legs, Dyspnoi, Entomology, Eupnoi, Evolution, natural selection, Paleoentomology, science, Science Daily, Sherlock Holmes, Silver Blaze, spider, Starship Troopers on August 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Exhibit One Returns from Israel
Posted in Family, Italian, Jews/Judaism, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, News/Current Events, Personal Observations, Philosophy, Politics, Rants, Relationships, Religion, Travel, tagged Aish HaTorah, Exhibit One, Israel, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Fellowships, Judaism on August 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I wrote about a month ago, my daughter, Exhibit One, “is returning to the Holy Land with the Aish HaTorah Jerusalem Fellowships. As part of the Jerusalem Fellowships program, she will be spending most of her time in Jerusalem and making day trips and overnight tours from there.” She stayed an extra week and, G-d willing, returns to [...]
My Café Rules
Posted in Food, Friends, Humour, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal, Personal Observations, Rants, Relationships, tagged Cafe on Main, Food, Humor, the Café Rules on August 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A new establishment is opening in the space once occupied by my old Café. [1] I hope I can find a new home and office there but I doubt it will give me that sense of belonging that I had at my old joint. Still, we live in hope. I’ve written in the past about [...]
Bumblebees: Back from the Brink of Extinction!
Posted in Humour, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Rants, Science, tagged bee rapture, bumblebees, CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder, Entomology on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Admittedly, I don’t get out much, so I think I might be forgiven when, a week or so ago, I was taken aback upon spying what I had presumed to be a hitherto-extinct creature. (a long lost friend) A bumblebee, an insect that I’ve not seen in the wild (i.e. anywhere outside my apartment) since [...]
Premature Waking: In My Solitude
Posted in Blogging, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Rants, Zombies, tagged blogging, Dead Snow, Hart House, insomnia, Nazi Zombies, premature waking, University College, zombies on August 22, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I have a personal quirk (one of many, I assure you) that I call Premature Waking. Premature waking is a type of insomnia. But not the usual kind where someone has trouble falling asleep. Trust me, I have NO problem falling asleep. I can nod off anytime, anywhere, under any condition. I can fall asleep during [...]
Females Can Limit Male Attractiveness!!
Posted in Humour, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, News/Current Events, Personal Observations, Philosophy, Rants, Relationships, Science, tagged bats, Engystomops pustulosus, Evolution, females, Fringe-lipped Bat, frogs, males, Physalaemus pustulosus, science, Science Daily, Túngara Frogs, Trachops cirrhosus on August 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Get ready boys and girls. It’s time once again for a headline torn from the cyber-pages of ScienceDaily.com! Yes, it seems that the boys have uncovered yet another hitherto undisclosed facet of the evolutionary gemstone, bless their nerdy little hearts. Females Can Place Limits on Evolution of Attractive Features in Males, Research Shows Bet you [...]
Eye Chart Surnames
Posted in Humour, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Rants, Relationships, Silly, tagged eye chart, long names, preppy, Sri Lanka on August 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Many years ago, when I attended a rather preppy law school, there was a charming young lady with an undecipherable and equally unpronounceable surname. It seemed to consisted of the letter “E” followed by a dozen or so consonants. To save ourselves time and possibly a sprained tongue, as well as to uphold the preppy [...]
Percussive Maintenance
Posted in Humour, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Philosophy, Rants, Science, tagged Armaggedon, Percussive Maintenance, schiaffo, Star Wars, zetz on August 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As used as we are to machines, appliances, electronic equipment and all the other gadgets that make our life wonderful, there are times when their failure to live up to expectations frustrates us to the point where we just have to smack them. It may be a primitive and irrational reaction but allow me to make two [...]
Bento Box Lunch
Posted in Cooking, Family, Food, Italian, Japan - Japanese, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Philosophy, tagged bento, bento box lunch, Food, Italian, Japanese, Susan Yuen on August 12, 2011 | 7 Comments »
As I wrote recently in my piece Mangia Cake, when I was a kid growing up, I knew Italian moms put a lot into the lunches they made for us. I was pretty impressed by the time and effort spent just so we could have something good and filling to eat at school. Then I saw [...]
Mangia Cake
Posted in Cooking, Family, Food, Italian, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Philosophy, tagged Doo Wops, Italian, mangia cake, Mangia Cake Girl, mangiacake on August 10, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Mario: “Hey, Brian… What the hell are you eatin’?” Brian: “Peanut butter and jelly on white bread.” Mario: (shaking head in disbelief, muttering) “Effen’ mangia cake.” [1] When I was a kid growing up, I knew Italian moms put a lot into the food they made for us, figuratively and literally. At noon, my friends and [...]
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