I'm reminded of my friend Dan. He was one of 23 kids (or some such number). He was maybe fourth or fifth. He tells of sitting around in the living room as a kid, with a half dozen or so siblings, watching TV. His mom and dad come home with a new baby.
"Oh, kids, we have a new baby."
"OK, Mom" (slightly annoyed...she's inturrupting a good show...)
... parents trudging up stairs ...
"Hey Mom, is it a boy or a girl..."
"Ah, let me check..."
Anyway, we have a New Scienceblogs.com Science Blogger, and it's a girl!
Maria Brumm studies ground water in tectonically active settings, and blogs from here.
And, of course, the first thing she does is rag on me. I'm going to have to go over there and kick her ass.
Comments
What that I'm going to kick her ass, or that she's a girl?
She's a hydrologist. She can take a hosing.
Posted by: Greg Laden | February 1, 2008 2:16 PM
She did more than rag on you:
"So assuming that cockroaches prefer to see Earth history as a series of distinct periods rather than as a continuum, will they lump the Holocene in with the Pleistocene, or with the Anthropocene"
Ouch.....;-)
Zuska? Rubber boots? Greg, you will need a pressurized frogman suit if she comes over here with that crap....
Posted by: the real cmf | February 1, 2008 4:43 PM
My first day of trying to be all professional-like as a blogger, and... it's okay, though, I can get with the flow. I think.
Posted by: Maria Brumm | February 1, 2008 4:53 PM
FTR: I was talking about Zuska's brand of turd slinging...
Posted by: the real cmf | February 1, 2008 5:20 PM
Wait, that wasn't a menstrual pun riff?
Oh...
Posted by: Maria Brumm | February 1, 2008 6:44 PM
Menstrual pun riff? What would that sound like?
Hmmm...Alice Coopers big revelation?
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3929
a guitar riff... WaWAAAAwaaaaawawawawawVawavawavawaWaaawaaAAAwaaa
and then the chorus dudududududududududud-dundundundun....
Posted by: the real cmf | February 4, 2008 5:31 PM