grrlscientist | September 6, 2008
Professor Steve Steve sleeps on the bar, shitfaced.
Image GrrlScientist 29 August 2008 [larger view].
Free advice for men: this is bad behavior when spending time with a single female, especially if she has to carry your mouldering carcass home with her.
grrlscientist | September 6, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 3]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto…
grrlscientist | September 6, 2008tags: Long-Billed Thrasher, Toxostoma longirostre, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-Billed Thrasher, Toxostoma longirostre, at Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 31 March 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | September 6, 2008I found a decent pub in London that provides free wifi and a wall outlet so I can plug in my laptop and stay until they shoo me out when the pubs close! Can you hear me screaming in ecstacy? Of course, it had to be my last night here, just before I have to get up early so I can make my flight to the States tomorrow. Can you believe my luck? Actually, I am not sure if this is good or bad luck, but the fact that they have decent ale in addition to wifi and access to an outlet is pure joy for me. For those of you coming to London who might be searching for something similar, here's precisely…
grrlscientist | September 6, 2008Here's a (relatively) newly published blog carnival along with something interesting that you might enjoy;
Carnival of the Vanities, 4 September issue. This is the oldest of all the blog carnivals and was the inspiration for the massive number of them that are now posted.
London's Lexicon, issue #15. Not exactly a blog carnival, but an ongoing internet photographic meme, nonetheless.
grrlscientist | September 6, 2008tags: London England, Harry Potter film sites London, Harry Potter, photography, photoessay
Classic telephone box in London. These are an endangered species.
Telephone boxes appear throughout the Harry Potter films, particularly as an entrance into the Ministry of Magic in the fifth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. When the telephone in the box is dialed (62442, the word M-A-G-I-C).
Image: GrrlScientist 4 September 2008 [larger view].
I am disappointed with the slowness and instability of the wifi connection I am using to post this and other entries, so I…
grrlscientist | September 6, 2008
YIKES! I am arriving home tomorrow early afternoon, in the middle of a dying hurricane. If my flight manages to land without problems (unlikely), I still have to rely on the train to get home and NYC subways tend to flood when the rain gets heavy, as is predicted for Sunday, especially the subway line I need to ride home. The thought that I might end up trapped at the airport or worse, on a stopped train underground is not comforting.
grrlscientist | September 6, 2008I am stuck in a McDonald's which has the only free wifi connection I've been able to find in London, and made a horrifying discovery: there is a Darwin-shaped wall stain that I cannot see, nor apparently, I cannot even read about because the story is considered to be "an: "Adult/Mature Content;Humor/Jokes." So it is your job, my peeps, to read this story and tell me about it (I will be checking on my blog one last time tomorrow morning before I depart for NYC).
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008Hi Science Girl, you've probably received tons of emails from other geologists, but your mystery object is an ammonite fossil, a nautiloid sea creature which lived between the Silurian/Devonian (ca. 400 million years ago) and became extinct with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous (65 Ma). Definitely one of the more spectacular fossils! Nice photos and content on your site by the way.
Cheers,
Jacques
Geologist
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 2]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto…
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008tags: Blue-crowned Lorikeet, Vini australis, parrots, birds, images
The Blue-crowned Lorikeet, Vini australis, is a parrot found throughout the Samoa and Tonga islands and Lau archipelago. This individual was photographed in the Blackburn Pavilion, a large indoor tropical aviary at the London Zoo in England.
Image: GrrlScientist 3 September 2008 [larger view].
I wanted to share this image of an adult blue-crowned lory that I photographed at the London Zoo a couple days ago. More zoo bird images are coming as soon as I have a stable wifi connection.
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008Here's a bunch of blog carnivals that have either been published recently, or that I've missed in my previous Carnivalia;
Carnival of College and Finance, sixth issue. This blog carnival focuses on the finances of people who are in college or who are academics.
Cancer Research Blog Carnival, issue 13. This carnival discusses cancer and health policies that affect cancer research and treatment.
Carnival of Sexuality, which discussess all aspects about human sexuality.
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008tags: Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, at Valley Nature Center, Weslaco, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 31 March 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/320s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008tags: Natural History Museum, London, England, mystery object, travel
Mystery object at the Natural History Museum in London, England.
Image: GrrlScientist 3 September 2008 [larger view].
When racing through the Natural History Museum in London, I photographed this object and forgot to photograph the plaque that provided information about it. Besides showing this to you because it is beautiful and because I want to pique your interest in seeing the huge number of Natural History Museum images I will be posting soon, I would also be pleased if you could give me and my other readers more…
grrlscientist | September 5, 2008tags: Professor Steve Steve, London, England, Nature Network conference, science blog conference, Nature Network science blog conference, travel
Professor Steve Steve at the beginning of the famous Ale Trail pub crawls (there is more than one of these "Ale Trail" pub crawls in London) -- he convinced me to pursue this Quest through London. Bad Bear!
Image: GrrlScientist 4 September 2008 [larger view].
This is a picture of Professor Steve Steve during yesterday's lunch, when he was determined to convince me to pursue one of the Ale Trails pub crawls through a group of classic pubs in London…
grrlscientist | September 4, 2008tags: Professor Steve Steve, London, England, Nature Network conference, science blog conference, Nature Network science blog conference, travel
Whose is bigger?
Sales person, Mark (left), and Nature science blog writer, Bob O'Hara, compare their shortbreads at the famous Twinings Tea Shop in London.
Image: GrrlScientist 4 September 2008 [larger view].
I wandered London yesterday in search of all the local film sites for the Harry Potter films (more later about that, including images), but along the way, I saw the famous Twinings Tea Shop and had to get some images.
While inside, Bob…
grrlscientist | September 4, 2008tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 1]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at Broadway and 41st for the 1, 2, and 3 trains.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
The pair of 7'x20' glass mosaic murals, entitled "The Return of Spring" and "The Onset of Winter", depict various New York City street scenes and were paintings translated to mosaics by Artistic Mosaics Travisanutto…
grrlscientist | September 4, 2008tags: Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, at Valley Nature Center, Weslaco, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 1 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/100s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | September 4, 2008Some of these reciprocal links are late, but it's better to be late than not at all, I suppose. Here's some blog carnivals for you to enjoy while I am seeking out more London adventures to tell you about on my blog;
Carnival of Horses for September. This blog carnival focuses on the best horse-related blog entries that have been published in the previous month in the blogosphere.
Gene Genie, #34. This blog carnival links to essays about genetics for you to enjoy.
Medicine 2.0, #31. This blog carnival is about medicine and it has a lot of interesting links for you to explore!
Carnival of…
grrlscientist | September 4, 2008
Octopus at the Natural History Museum in London, England.
Image: GrrlScientist 3 September 2008 [larger view].
As soon as I saw this sculpture on a pillar at the Natural History Museum in London, I thought of one person. Guess who that person was? You have three guesses and the first two don't count.