Bethesda Fountain

2014.01.12 - Bethesda Fountain Photo by jby.

Taken a couple weeks ago, now—but maybe a good one to get back to regular-ish photo posting with.◼

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Actually all this snow is already gone

2013.12.21 - sunset, barn Barn, sunset. Photo by jby.

Taken on my Saturday run around the old neighborhood.◼

Home of the Double Original

2013.12.18 - home of the Double Original Photo by jby.

Home of the Double Original.
(AKA the Original. Doubled.)
(i.e., twice as much Original as the Original.)
(That is, the Original x2.)
(As in, essentially two Originals.)
(Whatever the Original is. Probably a hamburger?)◼

Snow-covered campus

2013.12.11 - Saint Paul campus Snowy campus. Photo by jby.

Yeah, so this is about what we can expect from now till March.◼

Right on cue

2013.12.04 - first real snow Photo by jby.

The first serious snowfall of the year, in the first week of December.◼

2013 Twin Cities Marathon, in photos

So, that marathon I ran this morning? Went pretty damn well. My official time is 3 hours 19 minutes 55 seconds, which is a personal record marathon time—by about ten minutes! I attribute this to (1) spectacular autumnal weather—clear, cool, and perfect for running; (2) some half-arsed attempts at speed training I did over the winter; and (3) actually paying attention to my pacing, instead of my usual marathon strategy of just running as fast as I can until I end up barely able to walk the last mile.

I didn’t do much tweeting from the course, but I did take a bunch of photos—the camera on my new iPhone is a lot better than my old one. So here they are, with a reconstructed transcript of my internal dialogue:

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Science online, I did pretty much all of my science offline this week edition

But I did take a lot of photos!

Don’t worry, I’ll dive back into the blogosphere once I’m caught up. Probably next week, at this rate.◼

Weekend in New York

I did manage, in the course of three weeks in New York state, to take a weekend for some time in New York City. It was nice. Very nice, even.


New blog on the block: Natural Current Events

Western conifer seed bug. Photo by Emily Jones at Natural Current Events.

I’ve been meaning for quite some time to point readers to Natural Current Events, the photoblog by Emily Jones (who, to disclose fully, is a postdoc with one of my doctoral committee members). It’s a photoblog with nice natural history notation, mainly focused on insects, their host plants, and their predators — but really covering anything that will stand still long enough for Emily to catch a photo. Each post is like a short walk through your neighborhood woodlot with a natural-history-savvy friend.◼