Extortion just won't work, especially when the threat is so tantalizing. Greg Laden tries to get me to join in this thinking blog meme by telling me I'll get a basement full of snakes if I don't participate. Bring 'em on, I say. Gimme my snakes!
- Log in to post comments
More like this
I thought I was being a nice guy by not blocking John Kwok the moment he tried to friend me on Facebook. But that was a mistake.
At first, there was only the occasional strange note from him via Facebook "email." But then, several hours ago, the dam broke and the Kwok just poured in. The…
I expected that my students would get a little trial by fire in the furious life of the public intellectual, and the commenters here certainly provided that. Maybe a little too much of that. Dial the ferocity back a notch, OK? Constructive criticisms are greatly appreciated, but the nasty stuff is…
It's annoying. Garbage is thriving: the Discovery Channel is running ads for the Creation "Museum", and our very own scienceblogs is intermittently running an ad for creationist literature. There are a couple of things to know about this. One is that the economy sucks, and the media, in particular…
I'll tell you more later.
It's later now. I'm teaching a course in neurobiology, and one of the things I'm doing is having the students blog, to recount their experiences with neurobiology outside the classroom. In past years, I've set up a separate blog space for them to use, but I had a…
"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"
-Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark
I like snakes, too. Snakes and bats. They make me think.
;-)
I don't have a basement. I guess that's why the snakes live in my attic.
Voila.
I'm sick of these muthaf#@!ing snakes in this muthaf#@!ing basement.
Thanks for the link.
Does everyone know where PZ Myers is planning to be tomorrow evening? Paul, you better not post it or there will not be enough beer and wine to go around...
Tantalizing. Yep, that's the word for it.
(I love "tantalizing." It's such a pretty word, and sorta sounds like "tentacles.")
(Speaking of which: Greg Laden, next time try threatening him with a basement full of squid, with the occasional octopus thrown in for good measure. Actually, more than the occasional octopus; I only worded it that way for lack of any idea how to spell the plural of octopus.)
(Don't forget the water.)
Mafockin snakes on a mafocking blog!! (sorry, I had to let out that Samuel Jackson joke ;)
PS. Bats are cool!
A basement full of snakes isn't much of a threat to the avergae australian as we don't have basements in our houses. Snakes in the cutlery drawer are another matter, but easily solved with a lump of wood and a willing forearm.
Kyra ... That's very funny. I think it ends in an i (One octupus has two eyes, more than one octupus has only one i ... that's a good one if you have any fifth graders aroud the house).
The tantalizing bit: PZ is scheduled to be one of the panelists at an event in Minneapolis tonight. He is probably too humble to blog it himself, but it is a public event ...
Hello.. Did you know? I recently got a shiny new dot com domain name. =)
Would you be so kind to change the links from ilkeryoldas.blogspot.com to www.thethinkingblog.com ?
Thanks a million!