The Climate Mash

"Monster Mash" replaced with "Climate Mash"

http://www.climatemash.org/

No lieutenant your men are already dead..

So now I have to post the link to my favorite on-line movie...

Life in the Day...

This is funny- best with sound!

Happy Halloween!!!

http://www.hallmark.com/ECardWeb/ECV.jsp?a=5889711541178M000000N

Best video ever

This is rather entertaining.

Science rocks...

BBC has the most excellent science news. Here are my two favorite stories this week...

This is the actual story headline:

A sea creature killed just before it could defaecate has given new insight into the feeding habits of plesiosaurs.

And this story about a new worm that was found on whale skeletons whose name means "bone-eating snot-flower." It's apparently rather hard to find whale skeletons.

Pony wants my dinner!

I uploaded a short video of one of the ponies that wanted to share our dinner. The video is here.

The folks a few campsites over made the mistake of actually sharing, soon found their table overrun with 4 hungry horseys!!

Here's one of the wild ponies that got up close and personal. Lots of cattle egrets around too. 

Anyone now how to post multiple pictures to the same post using Picasa/Hello? It looks like everyone had a great weekend! It was a lovely weekend. JoAnna, Jon and I went camping at Assateague National Seashore. Spent some time with the wild ponies, some of which were very interested in sharing our dinner!
 

Sheep and Wool Festival

Chris and I did end up going to Dutchess County this past weekend for the Sheep and Wool festival - it was a perfect weekend for fall colors and really nice sceneryon the drive down. I never knew Dutchess County had such nice views. The festival was in Rhinebeck but we stayed overnight in a Saugerties and checked out the lighthouse on the Hudson and the little town. Here are some pictures of spinning, the sheep dog trials and the historic lighthouse (which is a bed and breakfast too).

Photo of the week...

There are many to choose from. I'm going with the funky blue ink. Bill prefers the trichomes.

Land Use Impact on Water Quality

This is an interesting way of getting municipalties to take advantage, or at least try out, models that predict the impacts of land use on a water quality. I was surprised to see these kind of thing in a web-format.
Check it out-
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/runoff/lthianew/

Sigh

Ever been so bored at work, and time is passing so s l o w l y (on a Friday afternoon) that you can’t ever imagine not being bored again? You feel as if your whole world will always be your stupid, boring cubicle and you’ll never do anything of interest again before you die?

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

More crazy pythons

From the Miami Herald:

Frances, a Siamese cat, went missing a few days ago. Now experts say he likely fell victim to the 12-foot python discovered Sunday, contentedly coiled in the grass behind Frances' house.

The snake was the second to go public, part of a disenfranchised colony of Burmese pythons that seems to have taken up residence around the Everglades and now refuses to be ignored. This week another enterprising, if bad-tempered, python treated himself to a pre-Thanksgiving feast in South Dade.

Autumn.

I'm not sure if I've ever shared this photo or not. It's one of my favorite aumumn images. Taken from my former office n Illick Hall. 

I am looking forward to a lot of pie!

As we've gotten our first comment spam, I've turned off anonymous posting. Have to log in now with a blogger username to comment on posts. If anyone needs an invite to become a member/contributor, or wants to play around with admin access, just lemme know!

Kev's pies

If not everyone has heard yet, Kevin and Carrie are requesting everyone bring a pie to their wedding to be used in place of a wedding cake. I personally think this deviation from tradition is a welcome change, and I post my recipe below for mile-high apple pie that I will be bringing:

• 10 high-quality baking apples such as northern spy, properly peeled and sliced
  
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 8 oz marajuana (a true stumpie recipe)
  

The secret to getting a truly thick pie is to pre-cook the apples in the oven, as fresh apples reduce in the pie. When people start asking "What is this in my pie, oregano?" the proper reply is "No, grandma, those are apples, now lets go dance in front of the strobe light".

Yeee-haw.

Eyes Were Bigger than Stomach

This is gross. What an ambitious python!
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Python explodes after swallowing 6-foot alligator in Florida Everglades http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1005-gator.html The National Park Service released photos that show the carcass of anAmerican alligator that was almost swallowed by a Burmese python. Park officials discovered the animal carcasses in a remote part of Everglades National Park, in south Miami-Dade, Florida, on Monday, Sept. 26,2005. It appears that the 13-foot long Burmese python attempted to swallowthe six-foot alligator before its stomach ruptured, resulting in the deathsof both animals. ...............

SU vs ESF

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Bob Loblaw

Does anyone else watch Arrested Development? I'm in a fit of giggles right now saying "Bob Loblaw" (a charachter in tonight's episode).

Even if you don't watch the show, try to say Bob Loblaw outloud and not giggle.

Bob Loblaw

...so funny...

New camera...

Bill and I broke down and got a digital camera this weekend. We were the last holdouts, right?

We also went for a little hike in George Washington National Forest where we admired all the brown foliage.

Isn't he cute?