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Category: Personal
Posted on: January 18, 2007 3:21 PM, by PZ Myers
¡Hola, amigos! I'm posting this from sunny, tropical…Michigan??!? Wait a minute, I thought January trips were supposed to be to some place with warm beaches and drinks with umbrellas and bikinis, not Detroit. This is more of a lateral shift, a change in longitude, rather than latitude.
There must have been some terrible ConFusion in my travel plans…
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As Jimmy Buffet say, "Changes in longitude, changes in onngitude."
Or was it his brother Warren?
Posted by: quork | January 18, 2007 3:34 PM
Welcome to Michigan, PZ. As I said in the forums, gimme a ring if you need something to do.
Posted by: Shelley Batts | January 18, 2007 4:06 PM
Not this Warren. (Though I am frequently subject to buffeting.)
Posted by: Warren | January 18, 2007 4:07 PM
Intercratonic shift is just continental drift - that's just plain WRONGITUDE, dude! Of course, when the Yellowstone hotspot comes your way, look for some changes in the vertical dimension - see the January Scientific American article The Mississippi's Curious Origins.
(Alas, you must be a member to view the entire article, so if you want the more technical version, try this: The Mississippi Embayment, North America: a first order continental structure generated by the Cretaceous superplume mantle event. Who says the mid-continent has to be boring?
Posted by: Fred Levitan | January 18, 2007 4:10 PM
Why would you wanna go somewhere tropical? We have snow and grey skies and wind chills....
Uh, never mind. Now I'm getting depressed. Oh well, in 6 months it'll be warm again.
Anyway, welcome to Michigan!
Posted by: abeja | January 18, 2007 5:06 PM
Any chance we'll get to see a PZ vs. Ed Brayton cage match?
Posted by: Kevin Klein | January 18, 2007 6:10 PM
welcome to michigan, PZ. i grew up in the city that's hosting the convention, so i assure you that you're in for some boredom if you leave the safety of the hotel. unless you have a fondness of Legoland-style suburban houses or high-class shopping malls (which sounds a bit like an oxymoron, i know).
i couldn't tell you why, but i have a certain devout love for the detroit area. i hope you make it out of there with your wits intact. some people don't...
Posted by: clockwork | January 18, 2007 6:16 PM
This is tropical, for Michigan. :)
Posted by: JavaElemental | January 18, 2007 7:18 PM
I can't believe the famous PZ Meyers is currently located within walking distance of my house! I hope you have a pleasant stay in the Winter Water Wonderland.
Oh, and don't complain about the weather. It's a full 12 degrees warmer here than it is in Morris, don't forget the sunscreen!
Posted by: Binky | January 18, 2007 10:51 PM
*mails PZ a drink with an umbrella in it* Sorry, you're outta luck on the beaches. And while I could also mail a bikini I'm not sure on your size. :P
Posted by: Azkyroth | January 19, 2007 5:17 AM
And Detroit can sort of seem tropical, or at least the Detroit airport can. Find the corridor between the "A" gates and the "B" and "C" gates. Go about halfway in, get clear of the moving walkways and just stand there watching is walls.
At some point, you'll get bright colors and tropical birds.
I imagine it's the kind of experience that's even better high, but really that hallway doesn't need anything extra. It's sufficiently trippy already.
(This hallway completely outstrips the freakiness of O'Hare's undulating neon lights corridor)
Posted by: Daniel Martin | January 19, 2007 9:53 AM
"i couldn't tell you why, but i have a certain devout love for the detroit area."
-clockwork
as a fellow Michigander, I have to agree, there's nothing else like Michigan, with the fabulous ruins of Detroit, the economy in the toilet;we were forth last economically back in 2005, and that's only because Katrina made mincemeat out of Louisiana and Mississippi.We're still ahead of Washington D.C. though, yay!
In spite of all this, our state has an ennui and culture that is quite quirky and odd in it's own way and no amount of suburbanization or deindustrialization will ever take that away.
Posted by: HenryFord | January 19, 2007 10:15 AM
Come to East Lansing! Cavort around with Dr. Pennock! Teach a few classes! :)
Posted by: Michael Saelim | January 19, 2007 5:52 PM
I had so wanted to attend this Con, with PZ *and* Howard Waldrop, one of my favorite writers; I hoped to have my copy of Howard Who? autographed. Circumstances have conspired against me. Guess I'll just have to reread the book snuggled under a warm blanket. Have fun, all ye ConFused.
Posted by: Faithful Reader | January 19, 2007 8:23 PM