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Ankylosaurs’ week is almost over…

Posted by gufodotto on February 15, 2008


Darren Naish has kept his promise to publish one wonderful post x day about Ankylosaurs for a whole week!!! There’s only one day left but may be he’ll skip to rest…

Go and read them all right now, cause they’re worth it…

I personally loved Ankilosaurs when I was a child and used to play with it and beat the crap out of a plastic T-Rex with his knobby, armored tail.

Incidentally, my little brother used to keep the model dinosaurs in between cattle and poultry in his plastic little farm… Do you think he knew that chicken and T-Rex were, after all, very close genetically?

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Laelaps is on Scienceblogs!

Posted by gufodotto on November 6, 2007

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let’s play

Posted by gufodotto on October 18, 2007

Thanks to Alice:

1 – Prendi il libro che hai più vicino, vai a pagina 19, scrivi la linea 11:
pagina 19 e’ occupata da una figura… tipico.

2 – Se estendi il tuo braccio destro, cosa riesci a toccare?
il laptop, la bottiglia d’acqua, la cioccolata, la PSP nuova, l’ombrello, milioni di altre cose. questa scrivania e’ ingombra. e poi ho le braccia lunghe.

3 – L’ultima cosa che hai visto in tv?
Il notiziario delle 7 della BBC

4 – Senza guardare, che ora è?
boh. 13.45?

5 – Adesso guarda, che ora è?
14.21 – sto perdendo tempo eh?

6 – Oltre al suono del computer, cosa riesci a sentire?
sibil-rozio del condizionatore. il ticchetio dei tasti. porta che sbatte. i tacchi di barbie girl.

7 – Quanto tempo sei stato fuori di casa la volta che sei stato più tempo fuori?
sei mesi. ma mi sa che l’abbandono comincia ora.

8 – Cosa stavi facendo prima di scrivere questo Journal?
leggevo gli altri blogs. invece di lavorare

9 – Cosa indossi ora?
camicia bianca con quadri marroni piccoli e leggeri, pantaloni in velluto a righe crema con sovra-toni verdicchi, maglione in lana verde. mutande rosse. credo… controllo. affermativo.

10 – Cos’hai sognato stanotte?
non ricordo.

11 – Quanto tempo hai riso l’ultima volta?
mezzo secondo.

12 – Cosa c’è sulle pareti della tua stanza?
due lavagne piene di formule e numeri. il bistrattato Credo della ditta. un calendario con avvenimenti fittizi. scritti da me. che si son poi avverati. scary!

13 – Hai notato qualcosa di strano ultimamente?
quando sto seduto, mi fa freddo alle gambe. x quello ho appena calato il giubbottone in pelle sulle coscie.

14 – Cosa pensi di questo giochetto di domande?
troppo lungo.

15 – L’ultimo film che hai visto?
South Park – Bigger, longer and uncut.

16 – Se diventassi milionario cosa compreresti?
Una casa in campagna dove passare il tempo a coltivare l’orto, e osservare animali ed insetti. e le piante crescere.

17 – Qualcosa su di te…
Strano ma pigro.

18 – Se potessi dare una cosa al mondo, cosa daresti.
Dinosauri.

19 – Ti piace cantare?
In macchina, visto che la radio e’ rotta.

20 – Cosa pensi di Bush?
L’uomo tipico.

21 – Hai una bambina, senza pensarci, come la chiami?
Sara.

22 – Invece è un bambino, come lo chiami?
Paolo.

23 – Ti piacerebbe vivere in uno stato estero?
Ci sto in belgio. essendo appena rientrato da casa (Sardegna) non e’ proprio il massimo.

24 – Cosa ti piacerebbe di dicesse Dio arrivato in paradiso?
Hai sbagliato la scommessa. Mi reggi sti fulmini nel mentre che li lancio?

25 – Chi vorresti che rispondesse a queste domande?
Chiunque capita nel mio blog e proprio non ha altro da fare.

Finito.

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The Big Splash…

Posted by gufodotto on September 6, 2007

And the new Nature is out too, with a brief piece on how different sciences are homing in on the Dinosaurs’ Asteroid Catastrophe, tackling it from various fronts and cross-fertilising each other with insights and suggestions on where and when EXACTLY this did happen.

I believe these links are freely available to anyone. If not, they should.

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Chimera, Grifon, Laelaps…

Posted by gufodotto on May 24, 2007

Which one is NOT a mythical creature?

Laelaps introduces us a really intelligent alternative to visiting the Creation Museum, some damn piece of crap put up by some pice of crap-ass creationist in the american untellectual junkyard.

So, you should rather go, Laelaps suggests, to the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibition on Mythical Creatures, where fantasy is certainly better used than in thos bible stories – I think desert shepherd should have been just that, without attempting to compete with science fiction with their “Bible”.

(I will admit though that I read the bible in comic version, where I was a child – it was given to me by a nun aunt, and I didn’t know better. drawings were ok, too, although I found the stories strangely anticlimatics. Also, I believe the Apocalyps wasn’t include. The only decent part, probably. Pity.

Luckily, I have the Gaiman and Pratchett version of it.

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Kate, I hate you!!!

Posted by gufodotto on May 24, 2007

How could you possibly throw mud on my idols? how do you dare to put dinosaurs’ purity and chastity in discussion? I know you’re just pointing at words uttered by someone else, but shame on you for propagating such infamous lies!!!

[irony hat off] now, I can enjoy reading the discussion itself. thanks a lot for showing me the light…

I guess this picture may be interpreted as a carnosaur leaving a love byte on another?

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Dinosaurs!!! Yeay!!!

Posted by gufodotto on April 18, 2007

Dinobase has been launched, Sarda reports from Bristol!!!

I love dinosaurs. So I’ll be definitely having a look.

And in a seemingly related subject, I have been looking for a good introductory book about the angiosperms’ evolution, and more in general plants’ evolution, but haven’t found one yet.

Also, a book extensively detailing past climates of the Earth would be wellcome. Or both in one, a sort of Annals of Natural History of Planet Earth. Passers-by, any suggestions?

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Study Identifies Dinosaur Protein

Posted by gufodotto on April 15, 2007

from the Science section of the NY Times, a piece by John Noble Wilford.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/science/13dino.html?ref=science

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Why God killed the dinosaurs?

Posted by gufodotto on April 14, 2007

Hylarious Lyrics:

God sent the dinosaurs to protect Jesus
from the Jews
Sodomites, and black people too

Dinosaurs and people used to chill all day
When dinosaurs felt bad they’d call up people
And know everything was gonna be O.K.

But then a bunch of people were really really bad
And this made God really really mad

So he made a flood to kill all he could
And Noah couldn’t help the dinosaurs
Because his boat was made of wood

And as the waters rose
The dinosaurs climbed Mr. T-Rex’s nose

And everybody watched on deck
As the dinosaurs broke Mr. T-Rex’s neck

And all the animals started to cry
As they watched all their
Dinosaurs friends die

God why’d you kill Mr. Dinosaur
I wanted him to live you wanted him to die more
And now Jesus is nailed to the cross
He can’t get saved by Mr. Triceratops
And the Jews are gonna eat him
Because the Romans didn’t feed them

And their claws are out and their teeth are bare and Mr. T-Rex would save him if he was there

God why’d you kill Mr. Dinosaur he was my best friend why couldn’t you ignore

The fact he had big teeth
Or was it ‘cos he was green?
Was it because he ate people?
Or because he was mean?
Was it because he had no soul?
Or that he lacked a heart?
Was it because it’d smell so bad everytime he’d fart?

Is that why you killed Mr. Dinosaur?
Is that why you killed Mr. Dinosaur?
Is that why you killed Mr. Dinosaur?
God why’d you kill Mr. Dinosaur?

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Planet Smasher

Posted by gufodotto on April 13, 2007

I feel rather destructive today…

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