Atomic Nerds

As the weekend was occupied in projects such as giving the Nerd Ranch a much-overdue thorough cleaning, bottling beer that’s been sitting lonely in the fermenter for weeks more than it should have, and attempting to give our metabolisms an equally needed boot in the ass to help mitigate the holiday-feasting damage, I have not had time to sit down and compose something actually interesting. (Any allegation that my usual posting method involves desperately trawling through Science Daily and roaring “THAT’S NOT NEWS, DAMMIT!” will be met with a firm “Not always!”.) So here’s what’s been entertaining me lately.

Congo Memoirs. One source of perpetual entertainment is dropping the relentlessly logical science boffin of varying types into the relentlessly illogical Africa, and this series of posts about a biological anthropologist’s adventures in Zaire is no exception. Apparently, what you really need to make a recipe for sure-fire entertainment is a mixture of scientist, natives who have no idea why the white guy is so relentlessly interested in animal footprints/bones/bugs/whatever but are willing to make a living off it, and animals that really are contemplating making them all lunch.

Dave Barry’s Year In Review was always so relentless funny that he apparently still does them even after retiring from his Miami Herald weekly column. Go read, and see if a little of the pain that has been 2008 is purged through the catharsis of it all.

Badass of the Week. This was linked to me in gunblogger chat (which is a totally awesome way to deal with boredom, by the way) and was quite possibly the most wonderful web find of the week. This is a perfectly endless source of inspirational material, and written by someone absolutely hilarious. Badasses of all sorts are included, among them my new personal heroine. Stingray was greatly pleased that his own personal hero was already in the rosters.

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