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Sunday, November 13, 2005

One more time from LA

It's been another long and enjoyable day here in LA. There are some more summaries of our productive meeting yesterday, from Jenny D, Free Range Librarian, and most thoroughly, from Clifford Johnson. Since there are comments at Cosmic Variance that Clifford was always the photographer and wasn't in any of the photos, here's another picture of him.

LA visit
See? I told you he eats ice cream with chopsticks.

I spent the morning at the Natural History Museum, with Duane, Bruce, and John…

LA visit

…and with Don Frack and Troy Britain. I wasn't at all impressed with the Collapse exhibit, but the insect zoo was very cool.

LA visit

We met up with Andy Groves and spent a few hours at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which is rather hard to describe, except that it was remarkably bizarre and we really needed some psilocybin to appreciate it properly. We also made brief tour of the Page Museum.

Dinner was at El Chollo—good Mexican—and we were joined by the Mysterious Radagast. I have top secret photos to prove it, but I'll be nice and protect his anonymity by giving you picture of me and Andy instead.

LA visit

I'll be heading back to good ol' Minnesota early in the morning, and will be back in the regular blogging business tomorrow.


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Comments:
#48531: — 11/13  at  02:45 AM
Glad you made it out to the MJT! I left there with a slight headache from trying to figure out what was real and what wasn't, but I loved it anyway. (Or maybe I was subliminally hungry from all of the In N Out scents wafting over.)

There's a pretty good book about it called "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders," by Lawrence Weschler, that gives some of the background of the museum (which is basically the work and vision of one guy, David Wilson).

The Page Museum is nice, too -- I spent many a happy lunch hour there when I worked across the street. But it's no MJT.



#48534: Arun — 11/13  at  08:28 AM
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWS01/511130515

Intelligent design evolving into hot issue in Indiana.

Rep. Phil Hinkle, R-Indianapolis, said an early tally showed 53 percent of his constituents who responded to his survey favor intelligent design being added to the curriculum.
Hinkle said he believes in God, Jesus and voting the will of his constituents. And he doesn't believe evolution is science.

But a bill adding intelligent design to the science curriculum might not get his vote.

"I'm not real sure we ought to be getting into this," Hinkle said. "I think government needs to get the heck out of education."



#48535: RPM — 11/13  at  08:45 AM
Do you always wear blue shirts?



#48537: Ron Sullivan — 11/13  at  09:56 AM
Wasn't the Great Wall of Dire Wolf Skulls at the Page one of the damnedest things, aesthetically, you've laid eyes on? I do like the bronzy finish the tar pits leave on the bones they yield up.

And my opinion on the MJT, well, I've posted before. It just tickles a very deep tendril of my interior fancy.



#48539: — 11/13  at  10:44 AM
<quote>
#48531: Mnemosyne — 11/13 at 02:45 AM
Glad you made it out to the MJT! I left there with a slight headache from trying to figure out what was real and what wasn't, but I loved it anyway. (Or maybe I was subliminally hungry from all of the In N Out scents wafting over.)
</quote>
Ditto on the MJT. Be careful about In N Out, the put Biblical Chapter N Verse on their drink cups, a subtle form of brainwashing.



#48546: — 11/13  at  12:48 PM
Cheesh, what a bunch of nerds.

Looks like fun was had. And thanks for the link to the MJT.



#48549: — 11/13  at  01:38 PM
Ditto on the MJT. Be careful about In N Out, the put Biblical Chapter N Verse on their drink cups, a subtle form of brainwashing.

In N Out pays their employees above market rate, including full benefits. If they do that because of their religious convictions, more power to them. I've got no problems with Christians who actually apply the teachings of Jesus to their everyday lives. I'd rather give my money to them than to someplace that treats their employees like shit in the name of the free market.



#48551: cvj — 11/13  at  03:11 PM
Wow! I forgot that you took that picture. I've not had time to brand and market the chopsticks+icecream technique yet! Everybody will be doing it one day, you know..... only a matter of time.

Cheers,

-cvj



#48557: Ron Sullivan — 11/13  at  07:42 PM
>Biblical Chapter N Verse on their drink cups, a subtle form of brainwashing.<

Brainwashing? Nah. You actually have to look to find it -- if I recall correctly, it's on the inside of the outer bottom cup rim. Alaska Airlines, now, they're much more obnoxious about it.

And I do like In 'n' Out's employee policies, insofar as I've heard them. I confess I even like the food.



Trackback: How Best to Spend a Saturday Morning Tracked on: Abnormal Interests (64.81.36.251) at 2005 11 13 12:25:25
Yesterday I spent the morning with PZ Meyers, who was visiting Los Angeles for a science and blogging meeting at USC the previous day. Bruce Breece, John, Don Frack, Troy Britain, PZ and I wandered around the Natural History Museum...



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