The Caveman’s Corner

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Weird mistake in D. masillae paper?

I noticed this reading through the paper for my last post. I’ll quote how the authors describe Table 3:
Table 3 lists 30 anatomical and morphological characteristics commonly used to distinguish extant strepsirrhine and haplorhine primates. They were taken from the standard primate textbook by Fleagle [74], form the classic W. C. Osman Hill monographs of [...]

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Star Trek vs Star Wars

I just came across this today and it amused me profusely:
http://puntabulous.com/2008/03/17/puntabulous-guest-debate-10/
Welcome to another edition of Puntabulous Guest Debates! Today I welcome Avitable who has my favorite header and headline in the whole wide world. We’re going to wrestle the topic that has plagued dorky science fiction fans (are there any other kind?) since 1977.
STAR WARS [...]

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I know someone else has noticed this.

John McCain is Colonel Tigh. All the time I’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica and whenever I watch McCain speak I keep thinking, I’ve seen this guy before. Who is that?

Ahaha, I’m not the first one to think of this. Victory.
And then it dawned on me. That’s John McCain or alternately that’s Colonel Tigh! Oh, grizzled, [...]

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Research Project?

Yet again, I’m contemplating embarking forth on a research project. Who knows how far this one will go, as my last… several… have died after I got overwhelmed by the preliminary reading. I do think this project has some distinct advantages, however: A) I now have access to the UT database at home on my [...]

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Blog Guilt

Oh, my poor blog… I have neglected thee so. And I’ve stopped reading them too. I don’t know why exactly. I still want to blog. The desire has not left me. I just seem to be in a rut. I still haven’t started the Meet a Contemporary I should be doing, not because I’ve been [...]