what have you done today?

[Sixties Relic]

Perhaps he has joined forces with the forum spammers and cloned himself?!

A few years ago, on a night out, I almost collided with someone who looked very like the front man from one of my favourite bands at the time. I didn't think any more of it until I read an article in one of the music papers that made me realise that it was him!

So far today I have done very little. Must get on...

[magic.bus]

i saw 3 members of G4 on a train once.. it was amazing!! they were popular at the time and once i went back stage at T4s pol winners party and saw loads of famous people.. and once i saw the fluffy haired guy from the kooks at a spinto band gig in norwich.. TRUE STORY.. but thats it really i should get going meting more famous people

[Sixties Relic]

I watched about ten minutes of "Glee" by accident. It made me feel slightly queasy.

[Galco]

I still haven't seen "Glee." A lot of my friends love it.

Today I saw The Pee-Wee Herman Show downtown at a neat little new venue called Club Nokia. It was stupendous. Paul Reubens can still do it. This is his first public appearance as Pee Wee in nearly 20 years...

[Sixties Relic]

Today I worked out what bothers me about "Glee": the musical performances (from what I saw) are so polished that I can see my face in them! I realise that it's supposed to be escapist but I prefer things to be more ramshackle.

[Sixties Relic]

I spent part of this morning directing traffic after an accident at the top of the road. Thankfully, neither driver was hurt. This afternoon I baked loads of stuff to take into work tomorrow and didn't even have time to think about "Glee"!

[magic.bus]

today i drove back from edinbrugh.. one of the best weekends ever.. even with the rain!!!! love it
went to the tempting tattie and the castle, dynamic earch, museum of childhood, and this optical illusion place.. and anoyed some crazy french people!!
im glad to be home now though!!

[Hippocleides]

Yesterday I saw a dinosaur movie at a science museum and learned something quite astonishing. Did anyone else know that velociraptors had feathers? My mind was completely blown. Like most people, my mental image of a velociraptor originally came from Jurassic Park and was then reenforced by years of various History/Discovery channel specials. But apparently in September of 2007 a team of paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History discovered feather quill knobs on a velociraptor forearm. I feel like this should have been a top story on every major news source, but Googling it now I can only find articles in science-specific journals. I am also irritated that the intro to the wikipedia article on velociraptors rags on Jurassic Park for showing them with "anatomical inaccuracies" such as no feathers, when the makers of the movie could not have known about the feathers in 1993. This whole revelation still has me in shock.

Also, the Spellcheck on my computer does not recognize velociraptor as a word but thinks that googling is O.K.

[Galco]

Having been a student of biology, I was aware of this, and of course when I first came across it my mind was rather blown as well. The knowledge is not new. Since the 1990s excavation in the Chinese Yixian Formation has evidenced some Jurassic genera of dinosaurs as having feathers. It's easier to wrap your head around this from an evolutionary standpoint. In the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods, the evolutionary history of dinosaurs began to diverge. One path led to the evolved modern reptiles as we know them, the other led to the modern aviary family, or birds. Take a look closely at any bird's feet. Don't they look rather like dinosaur claws? And they are after all scaled. The missing link so to speak was the Arhaeopteryx, which has a history of discovery dating back to the 1800s but only fully understood since the mid 20th century. It was a birdlike, feathered creature approximately midway along the evolutionary timeline from dinosaurs to avians.

Today I rehearsed for a musical.

[Hippocleides]

I had known that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds, but I was just unaware that this extended to velociraptors, one of my favorite dinosaurs. Now I just don't know if I can take them as seriously. Would the Jurassic Park kitchen scene be as scary if the children were pursued by giant feathered beasts? If I saw this thing coming at me, I would mostly just be confused.



But maybe that is a predatory mechanism? Cause your prey to be so bemused that it doesn't immediately notice your talons and flee?