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April 17, 2008
A long time ago i was totally mesmerized by Charlie the kinda angry unicorn and his magical journey. Today I am happy to notice that he’s back with a new banana filled adventure. If i’m not mistaken, that’s a singing santa-hatted banana slug. You heard me… santa-hatted banana slug.
It’s stupid, and funny, and […]
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February 28, 2008
so I don’t use GPS, but i love the idea, and we’ve had lots of mapping talk and some training here at work for GIS, though my department
doesn’t really deal in it since the vast majority of our collection only has information as detailed as “right side of Waianae Ridge, Hawaii,” or “near New Caledonia,” […]
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January 28, 2008
today i had to go fishing around for what i think are the prettiest mollusk images to update the department’s website… and i was so happy i remembered the Man O War Slug (Glaucus atlanticus) because it’s just so so so pretty. The best picture i found (or actually 2 different glaucus species) was so […]
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January 7, 2008
Yes, you heard me… cold blooded murder. Actually, that’s pretty funny all things considered.
A grad student brought in some clams collected last week in Florida, so they need to be accessioned. They were stored in a cooler in little baggies with wet packs with ice packs in the bottom. I believe my boss was under […]
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December 18, 2007
i find data entry to be the most challenging part of my job because i just don’t want to do it. It is hard to find the motivation to just get in there and copy a book onto the computer.
Sometimes i satisfy myself by learning something about geography or history, and that makes it all […]
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December 6, 2007
Kentucky is home to Licking River.
I am starting to think everything funny has already been made up, we just have to find it. Apparently it’s pretty easy to find Lioplax sulculosa there.
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December 5, 2007
I have always been fascinated by cetaceans. They were my first in-depth animal study, along with learning everything I could about dinosaurs. By the time I went on my first whale watch, I was calling species on the basis of fin markings, back hump profiles while sounding, and facial characteristics. My family went on a […]
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December 4, 2007
I had a moment of laughter at work today while going through the database. I’m cataloguing a lot of material that was collected in the 1930s from the Bahamas, which is not so funny. No, it was the particular locality in Nassau that had me cracking up at my desk.
Old Sponge Pier
Now, what would this […]
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November 20, 2007
MCZ Mollusk department lot 124276
Class: Bivalvia
Family: Pholadidae
Genus: Martesia
Species: striata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Locality: Cuba, Cienfuegos Harbor
Collected by: Mark, E.L. in Feb 1901
(currently this is not in our online database as it has not been updated since August, and I entered this data in October)
Note: “From keel of barque “Joseph Maxwell,” the 1st vessel captained by the “Pirate […]
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