Here I am in Vancouver, which is a lovely place despite the rain, and while I'm overloading my cortex with philosophy of biology, we hit a landmark here. 100,000 unique visitors! And nobody to share the champagne with, if I had any champagne...
Tomorrow I go to Seattle for three days of recuperation, if mine host, Josh Hayes, sci.bio.evolution moderator and all round good guy, doesn't exhaust me by making me walk up mountains and stuff. Then to Berkeley, where I'll tell some serious folk why they have been wrong about essentialism in biology for fifty years, and if I survive that, back home to Brisbane, and sleep. Did I mention the jet lag?
I'm having an excellent trip, or would be if I was 20 years younger. I think it's time to find a new avatar - anybody got a pic of a tired and wan silverback gorilla?
In the meantime, go to Janet Stemwedel's blog Adventures in Ethics and Science for pics of my cotraveller, Professor Steve Steve, with various well-known philosophers. Well, they're well-known to me. But I didn't get to talk to them, as the good panda prof. hogged all the conversation, and all the food. I got some beer, at any rate...
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Not quite the article I was expecting, considering it was partially titled, "Shagged Out."
It's a colloquialism, meaning exhausted. Like a dead parrot.
John...
Try to get to The Elysian for a beer. Ask for David Buhler and if he's there, introduce yourself. If you can let me know when you will go there a bit ahead of time, I'll let him know to look out for you. I want a picture! Somebody has to tell me if my brother's pub is worth a visit. We need him to make a beer with a Darwinian theme (especially with DI so close).
(signed) marc
While you're in Seattle, do enjoy the fact that you never have to settle for Starbucks coffee.
It's a joke.
John, do you have any Bay Area downtime on Wednesday or Friday? (I'd come to your talk Thursday, but I'm teaching my grad seminar that night.)