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09-Dec-08

Do you remember when all this seemed impossibly far away, like something out of a fantastic science-fiction movie?

Some of my favorite things, and why

28-Nov-08

wombat
Vombatus ursinis - The Common Wombat1

anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla - The Giant Anteater2

white rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum - The White Rhinoceros3

1“Wombat” is fun to say. And it’s just simply adorable.

2They have no teeth, yet manage to eat up to 30,000 insects a day.

3Of the Black and the White Rhinos, the Black has the better scientific name (Diceros bicornis “Two-horns [Gr.] two-horns [Lat.]“) but the White just looks cooler.

I can’t stop laughing, and I can’t tell you why

10-Nov-08

Nighthawks mit T-Rex

I love my job.

New Employee Orientation

03-Nov-08

A ridiculously attractive girl took me on a tour of the Fish and Reptile collections, a trip that included expositions on her recent induglences in 80’s synthpop, vivid anecdotes regarding the industrial-strength smoke machine at her Halloween party, a working model of a Dunkleosteus skull, discussing why Facebook is good for two things only: stalking and sharing photos, the story behind her very unusual yet appropriate first name, and a side trip to a room full of aquaria, whose occupants included a 30-year old African lungfish whose tank was tightly sealed lest he escape again and a piranha. Normally, I wouldn’t be too terribly impressed by tall, quirkily dressed former art students-turned-zoologists — I mean really, what’s so special about that — but a woman whose idea of a good tour is showing you the piranhas, now that’s the stuff instant, huge crushes are made of.

FMNH

26-Oct-08

This is where I’ll be Monday morning.

And Tuesday morning. And Wednesday morning. And every weekday after that.