Avast Me Hearties!

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day ye scurvy bilge rats!

This be the likeness of Pirate Queen, Scarlett Harlott, cast yer eyes upon her site or be cursed fer certain!

May yer seas be calm, yer rum flow freely and yer booty be bountiful!


New evolution signage

The latest in my “just for kicks” collection of evolution related signage:

Thanks to Ryan for taking the picture with his phone for me.

 

Please forgive the mess

I’m trying to do a little customization to the code on my blog (just trying to widen the content area) but the stuff isn’t really cooperating so things might look a bit ugly for a while.

My apologies and suggestion are welcome.


Update: OK, so I’ve implemented some (most?) of the changes I was planning…how does it look? Comments? Criticisms?

Merry Christmas everyone!

And a happy New Year!

 

A new evolution sign for my collection

Whenever I’m out and about (and have my camera) I like to collect snap-shots of commercial signage that is related to evolution in some way. There’s nothing deep about it, just something I like to do. Anyway here is the latest example that I have added to my collection:

This particular sign was for a used car lot down the street from where I work (lately, when there is work). For the rest, if you’re interested, see the signage collection page on my web site.

The Carnival of Evolution #30 is up!

The latest Carnival of Evolution is up over at Bob O’Hara This Scientific Life!

I’ve recently been asked to join the CoE as a contributor, which is great, I’m honored to be asked. Unfortunately I didn’t have anything to contribute to this particular issue, which is not so great. Still, you should all go check it out for lots of interesting evolution related blogging.

Oh hail no!

This apparently occurred on May 16th (2010) in Oklahoma City, OK.

Words fail.

Just watch the video and be glad you weren’t standing out in it:

Rate my rants

While perusing my friend John Wilkin’s  blog Evolving Thoughts I discovered that WordPress has a post rating feature (one to five stars) and having learned this I have turned it on so that you can shower my rantings with five star ratings. The rating bar can be found at the bottom of each post, so have at it!

A little housekeeping

I have bitten the proverbial bullet and procured myself a few domain names to cover this blog and my web site as well.

Henceforth the address for Playing Chess with Pigeons is http://pigeonchess.com (as you can see  at the  top of your browser window) and the new address for my Creation/Evolution Locus page is http://commondescent.net.

Please update your favorites/bookmarks and any links that might be effected.

Sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

This graphic should make the changes clear:

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(Source)

Or if that doesn’t do it here is something more relevant to this blog:

Merry Christmas everyone, and a Happy New Year!

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