elainegrey

Well, my expectation that the new MobileMe calendars-in-the-cloud would cause irritation has been met. The calendars will not sync on my phone now. ( blah blah sync blah blah )

We fell asleep quite early last night, 8:30ish on the couches, with Nova's coverage of Arctic Dinosaurs fading into the monitor hum.

Monitor hum? Why yes, you see, there's something maddening going on with the speakers and the mac mini and the monitor. When the speakers and the monitor are being used with the XBox, all is well. When the monitor is switched over to the macmini, a annoying hum develops in the speakers. The hum is affected by what's being shown on the monitor: fortunately, video in full screen (including the visualizer) has less hum than a browser open.

The Nova documentary ends while the paleontologists are still scraping away in the Liscomb bone bed mine along the Alaskan North Slope Colville drainage. This morning i wanted to see what more recent reports might be available, and kept finding odd statements from creationists that "unfossilized bones" were found in the Liscomb beds. No such nonsense in the documentary, of course, although there were points about how exposed bones had been fragmented and damaged by freeze-thaw cycles. I found a 2001 Q&A on a mailing list that addressed the rumor and concluded the bones have undergone change.

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I'm rather not sure how to reply to this inquiry:

"Some researchers show [some very different relationships than my colonial heritage research shows -- and with no dates]. Is this incorrect or what?"

I ended up being helpful, but i am annoyed to get a "Some researchers" after a post that is DENSE with citations to compilations of Colonial records and to genealogy texts from the 1800s. I don't know if his statement is wrong or not. Those relationships could be three generations later in a totally different state.

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Murgh. It's really time to get headed in to the office. I do not feel so unwell that i should not go, but, i don' wanna!