Travel, Tech, Thoughts…
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Myakka River State Park
After two days of checking out Sarasota, we decided we’d spend all of this day in the State Park. We went for an early ride to the canopy walk, which is basically two towers with a suspended wood walkway between them: (here’s Debi on the walkway) The best part about the canopy walk is that…
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MOTE Aquarium and Ringling Estate
I forgot to mention one fun thing that happened the previous night. We had just finished setting up camp and it was getting dark when I heard a loud rustling in the brush near our camp. It was loud enough that I though someone was walking through the brush. When it finally stopped, I thought…
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Coquina Beach and Longboat Key
We decided we needed a little get away to relax before classes start again (on the 22nd). The problem with taking a vacation when you live on the coast in Florida is that where you live is basically a vacation spot. I know that’s an pathetic quandary, “Oh, poor me, I can’t decide where I…
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How do you measure up against the candidates?
A friend sent me a link to this quiz to get a sense of how you measure up to the current candidates for President: I’ll tell you who most closely matches my views if you tell me who most closely matches yours.
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alternative ambulance
Debi’s been on an anti-“alternative medicine” kick as of late. She found this comic today that gave us both a good laugh: Kind of drives home the point 😉 (courtesy of —————- Now playing: Fireside Orchestra – The 12 Days of Christmas via FoxyTunes
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Reason’s Greetings!
We usually try to put together a nifty little year in review holiday letter for friends and family. If you read this you probably got a copy in your email. If not, let me know and I’ll add you to my email list.
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an early start to our holiday break
A couple of weeks ago now, some of our friends at UT (both biologists) invited us to go on a field trip they were offering to students as extra credit. The field trip was to the Manatee Viewing Center funded by TECO (that’s Tampa Electric). It’s kind of a weird place. There is a massive…
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Bank of America – Satan’s bank
When I moved to Florida in June I knew that I was going to need a new bank for my local banking as our bank in Cincinnati was a local credit union. I didn’t think banks were that different as I’d never had a bad experience with one. So, I chose our new bank based…
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not much going on
I haven’t posted anything in about a month as all we’ve really been doing is working. Honestly, I never believed working as a college professor was as time consuming as it is. I’ve been putting in easily 60 to 80 hour weeks and I still don’t feel like I’m keeping up. I’m just hoping things…
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conference entertainment
I spent the past weekend participating in an academic conference I regularly attend (Society for the Scientific Study of Religion). I have a number of friends and colleagues who attend and we had a good time together. But I have to tell about one session at the conference. The conference organizer – who did a…