Author Archives: rpg

I’ve only just noticed – the latest Carnival of the Cats arrived on Sunday. So toddle on over there for all your moggie magic! So good, even the Beast is letting me blog tonight!

I was going to write something serious today, but that has been rather derailed by the photo my agents sent me from yesterday’s secret Nature Editors’ outing to Cromer beach.

I really want to just give the link to this and stand back, but some of you will need the background. Last year the creationists started talking about a film – Expelled. A few people on the anti-ID side (e.g. … Continue reading →

This morning I received a worrying book through the post for the beast. Although he might try to take art up seriously, his lack of a cultural education (he’s Australian) could be a disadvantage. On the other hand, it might … Continue reading →

This afternoon I ran an analysis of some sheep data. Being a good boy, I checked how well the model was fitting to the data, and got the following plot:

This morning, The Beast got very excited. Normally he sits on the mouse mat demanding attention, or sits on my making sure I can’t refuse. During the course of this, he was distracted:

The US blogosphere has semi-regular updates about a guy called Vox Day. I wonder if there’s anyone who reads his stuff apart from his detractors (as is pretty much the case for Uncommon Descent). I mention this now because of … Continue reading →

I’m sat in a project seminar listening to Timo Knürr’s presentation on association mapping in pine. Unfortunately, Timo is ill, so the talk is being given by his collaborators. One of whom hasn’t even seen the slides.

Aagh! On the latest Birds in the News, Grrlscientist put up this picture of a cassowary:

Via Orac, I see that Wikio has a listing of top science blogs.