Interesting Links Day 3: Dinosaur Comics
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Interesting Links Day 2: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Note: Some comics in SMBC contain NSFW adult themes. Click the comic to be taken to the publishing site.
Interesting Links Day 1: XKCD
For six days Phil is going to share web comics he enjoys. Today is xkcd.com. Just for today we’re going to take you to one of Phil’s favorites on XKCD. For the next five days we will take you to the daily comic on each site. Click the comic to be taken to the […]
An update from The Guide to Phil’s Galaxy
Believe it or not… Phil has a day job! His clients are demanding that they get more attention than his website. Don’t Panic! Posting will resume once probability of 1:1, normality, is restored. And don’t forget your towel. In case you’re wondering, the answer is 42. In the meantime, Phil is going to post links […]
The PaPER and the Poets Three
This is another of Nanlee Haston’s poems. I’ve introduced her story in an earlier post, The PaPER and the Poets Two And a thousand giants of the land, took hold of humorand burned it at the stake: heretic of fate. As mothers fathers children dogs were turnedto bark at moons (too soon to recognize my […]
Calvin Jones, Florida State Archaeologist
I graduated from Florida State University with an Honors BA in Anthropology. It was directly a result of Calvin Jones hiring me in the summer of 1972. An Honors degree has the same requirements of a Master’s degree or Doctorate: original research, a committee, a thesis/dissertation and a defense! I will publish my thesis in […]
Introductory Lecture to the Man and Environment Course I Taught
This was the introductory lecture to the course I taught in 1969 and 1970 at the Miami Dade Junior College, called Man and His Environment (click here to see the brochure advertising the course). I think it is completely germane to our present day concerns! ECOLOGY Ecology: the study of the relationships between the different […]
I Was A Naturalist At A Young Age
When we moved to Miami in 1956 we lived in the historic (now, not then) Betsy Ross Hotel on Ocean Drive. The beach was across the street. Wow! From Brooklyn to Paradise. After a year Dad bought us a home in West Miami, near the famous Tamiami Trail. It was pretty much the western edge […]
Everglades
These are graphics that Phil helped create when he was on the research team in the Everglades. Its purpose was to help people understand the impact of the local fauna on the formation of islands in the Everglades.
The True Story of How John Cougar Mellencamp Came to Be Called The “Little Bastard”
I was there. I witnessed it. And I just spoke with my friend Eileen Alexander who gave him that nickname to confirm my recollection, AND she gave me permission to name the guilty parties! Some background is necessary. If you have read the postcard story you will know how I came to have clients in […]