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Dinosaurs in the Nature Center, Oh, My!

And by “dinosaurs,” I mean, “geese and cranes.”

All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.(Click the image! Click it!)

Have I mentioned how cool I think it is that birds are now considered to be dinosaurs? Two of the things I loved most as a kid turn out to be the same thing! Más [...]

An Adventurer's Guide to the Dinosaurs of Paradise: More Hornfaces!

Last week, one morning: I woke up, and in my bed -

Just your basic, everyday Einiosaurus procurvicornis!!

Had an Einiosaurus running through my head!

(With apologies to The Beatles and A Day In The Life.)

Yes, that happened. I was in a doze, somewhere between asleep and awake, when the perfect opening to the scene I was [...]

The Dinosaur Lords

THE DINOSAUR LORDS, my epic (in every way) fantasy novel, has gone out into the world!

Dinosaur Hunt!

What’s the point of writing a fantasy novel with dinosaurs if you can’t make toy dinosaurs fight? None at all!

Sick and tired...

I’m sick, tired, and unproductive, though intending to get better soon. Plus: dinosaurs!

One more river to cross!

Okay, I’m not yet finished with the rough draft of my epic (in several senses) fantasy novel, The Dinosaur Lords. But I’ve at last hit the final milestone before writing those most blessed words of tongue or pen, The End!

Another, slightly creepier take on Hesperonychus.

And after only six and a half years. [...]

Writing words like pulling teeth

As I near The End, it becomes so.

Teenage dinosaur gang dies trapped in mudflat.

It’s pure avoidance behavior. I know that. There’s that within me, as there is within all of us, that wants very badly for me not to succeed. There’s also that within me that shies away from the load of [...]

Reviving freezer-burned brats

I can’t promise this will bring back seriously freezer burned bratwurst; these were freezer-burned, but I don’t know how badly. How do you measure that, anyway?

At any rate, I defrosted them. Chopped up a quarter-onion or so and plopped it in water in a pot – enough to cover the brats, so there aren’t [...]

Bombay Calling!

But first, since we needs more graphics on this site, and also since I’ve been dying to post this:

Japan welcomes its robot overlords

Hat tip to Katherine Mangu-Ward at reason.

What’s it got to do with the subject of this post? Well, accomplished rationalizer that I am (it’s a living), I could spin you [...]

A disaster movie waiting to happen?

Does anybody else find this, ah, disturbing? Wired.com informs us that Drillers Accidentally Create First Live Magma Observatory.

That’s right: workers at a geothermal site in Hawai’i accidentally busted into a pool of live magma. Which, as we all know, is lava that has yet to come out.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh.

In other, totally, [...]