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Something that will stand the test of time
I finally got from my brother the photographs that I took at the American Museum of Natural History when we were there in January. Not all of them came out, but here's a selection. Almost none of them contain members of my family; mostly they're the dioramas that I love and always wish I'd photographed every time I visit. Think of it as a walk-through museum. Only with much less information, because while I may have taken the photographs, I completely forgot to take notes.
Some pictures from Yale's Winter Ball are also appended. Thanks to Roman Sazonov and Jeff Mankoff for the photos. I'm hoping for more in a few days.
And I'm using a mouse for the first time in months, because the touchpad on my laptop has died. Nicht so gut. All my computers have died in the spring. They're like the Snegurochkas of Macintosh: only they don't come back in the winter.
(Cut for extensive photography.)
My father and brother in their unnatural habitat. It's not a terrific picture of either of them, but it's the only one I've got right now. And I'm very fond of them.
Biodiversity!
Life in the Ordovician seas. May contain tentacles. Also, trilobites.
Life in the Permian seas. The age of sponges.
Life in the Cretaceous seas. When cephalopods ruled the earth. From my earliest visits to the museum, these three dioramas of ancient oceans were always favorites of mine. I want to have swum in those seas.
My father and me. As may or may not be discernible from this angle, we have the same nose; only mine hasn't been broken four times.
The Hall of Northwest Coast Indians. Another ancestral favorite.
Mountain lions. This should mean we're in the Hall of North American Mammals. I took a number of photographs from the African Mammals as well, but that was before I remembered to turn off the flash.
Jaguars. Still in (southwestern) North America.
From the predominance of leopards and peacocks in this shot, I would guess we're now in the Hall of Asian Mammals. Either that, or this country used to have a much more exciting ecology than I thought.
Fortunately, the American Northeast can still boast a respectable range of the species grad student, from the Well-Dressed Historian of Medicine (Crispin Barker) to the Classicist in Basic Black (me) to My God, It's the Assyriologist in a Suit for the First Time in Twenty Years (Torger Vedeler).
Left to right: the shirtfront of Torger Vedeler; me, with what I consider an intensely stupid expression; Chris Crick; Bobbi Sutherland; Crispin Barker; Shelby Condray's camera.
Here we note that the Well-Dressed Historian of Medicine is an adaptable creature, as it coexists peacefully with the Lovely Medievalist (Bobbi Sutherland) and the Jack of All Trades, er, Computer Scientist (Chris Crick).
Watch this generalized space. There should be more photographs soon.
Some pictures from Yale's Winter Ball are also appended. Thanks to Roman Sazonov and Jeff Mankoff for the photos. I'm hoping for more in a few days.
And I'm using a mouse for the first time in months, because the touchpad on my laptop has died. Nicht so gut. All my computers have died in the spring. They're like the Snegurochkas of Macintosh: only they don't come back in the winter.
(Cut for extensive photography.)
My father and brother in their unnatural habitat. It's not a terrific picture of either of them, but it's the only one I've got right now. And I'm very fond of them.
Biodiversity!
Life in the Ordovician seas. May contain tentacles. Also, trilobites.
Life in the Permian seas. The age of sponges.
Life in the Cretaceous seas. When cephalopods ruled the earth. From my earliest visits to the museum, these three dioramas of ancient oceans were always favorites of mine. I want to have swum in those seas.
My father and me. As may or may not be discernible from this angle, we have the same nose; only mine hasn't been broken four times.
The Hall of Northwest Coast Indians. Another ancestral favorite.
Mountain lions. This should mean we're in the Hall of North American Mammals. I took a number of photographs from the African Mammals as well, but that was before I remembered to turn off the flash.
Jaguars. Still in (southwestern) North America.
From the predominance of leopards and peacocks in this shot, I would guess we're now in the Hall of Asian Mammals. Either that, or this country used to have a much more exciting ecology than I thought.
Fortunately, the American Northeast can still boast a respectable range of the species grad student, from the Well-Dressed Historian of Medicine (Crispin Barker) to the Classicist in Basic Black (me) to My God, It's the Assyriologist in a Suit for the First Time in Twenty Years (Torger Vedeler).
Left to right: the shirtfront of Torger Vedeler; me, with what I consider an intensely stupid expression; Chris Crick; Bobbi Sutherland; Crispin Barker; Shelby Condray's camera.
Here we note that the Well-Dressed Historian of Medicine is an adaptable creature, as it coexists peacefully with the Lovely Medievalist (Bobbi Sutherland) and the Jack of All Trades, er, Computer Scientist (Chris Crick).
Watch this generalized space. There should be more photographs soon.
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*runs away*
Also, your brother looks distressingly wholesome and clean-cut without his facial hair.
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Hey! The jacket is only two-and-some years old!
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I love those ancient sea exhibits.
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---L.
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*ducks*
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