Tet's New Robotic Dinosaur

That last dinosaur was riddled with anatomical mistakes and no fancy photoshop coloring. Not so any more, my friends! The new one even comes with an accurate scale bar! The height of fashion among all the super-hero paleontologists, this robotic Daspletosaurus sp. could be your sweet new ride for 6 low minimum payments of $999,999.99(USD).

Call now and we'll include a free army of genetically engineered hamsters*! Call in the next five minutes and we'll double your hamster order and even give you a dozen cultures of mechanical baby sand dollars!

Call now for a deal you can't afford to miss! The robotic Daspletosaurus sp., the double army of hamsters and 12 cultures of mechanical plutei**! That's a $5 million in savings, but this deal won't last long!

*Hamsters have been genetically engineered for cuteness and lasers. Some international restrictions may apply.
**Plutei offered are diagonally asymetric but may wander in the morphospace.

--m

(Sorry about the length of this post, I really got into that sales pitch.)

It's Friday, So Good News

It's Friday and I'm takin' the night off.

However, I know some of you might feel bereft in the internets without an update (hah.) so I'm going to leave you with something awesome.

http://themomentafter.wordpress.com/

The Moment After is a blog about the drinking escapades of a young woman who "leads a fairy-tale life, attending glittering balls and wearing beautiful gowns." Okay, that quotation is a total lie and it's from the blurb on the back of the romance novel I just read.

Anyways, if you enjoy a) alcohol, b) adventures, and c) sarcasm and fine wit, you'll probably enjoy The Moment After. Go check it out.

With that, I leave you!
--m

It's All in the Goggles...And the Plotting

Mad scientist goggles: $17.19

Rent for sweet, evil lair: $670.00 (plus utilities)

Scrap metal for building robots: $200.00

Paperclips, rubberbands, lasers and misc. office supplies: $342.43

Speedy internet connection for youtubin' and blogging: $64.75

Opensource program to livetrace your campaign poster: $0

World domination: priceless.

--m

(The impetus for this comic: I love that my best friend got welding goggles and that I got to take a photo wearing them. Also, I like making pop culture references.)

Chances are Good You're a Nerd

Sketchily drawn, but a comic at last! Tonight I went to an event at the Shedd aquarium with my good amiga, Spazzerina. And I did proclaim several things to be my "favorite (insert marine biology nerd thing here)".

It was a great evening and now I'm going to bed, which I'm super excited for!

--m

Chondrichthyes are actually sharks and other cartilaginous fish-type-thingers, so not inverts, but they're still my fave chordates.

A Summer Review

On the back of an envelope I sent

This summer I spent ten weeks at one of my most favorite places in the world, Friday Harbor, WA. I was a student there in two intensive, graduate-level courses, Comparative Invertebrate Embryology and Larval Biology. I'm back home for a brief stint (after boats, cars and trains) and absolutely wiped. Tonight I'm sharing a few choice photos with you rather than drawing.

Expect comics tomorrow.

More photos after the break!
--m

Mad Scientist or Super Hero: Does It Matter?

The answer is no, it doesn't matter.

Tonight's comic is dedicated to the only male student in my class (of ten students). In real life he's even more amazing than his fictional character (Dr. Mastadon, despite the fact that he works with dinosaurs, not mammals) and he did breed an army of hamsters.

Basically, this is an inside joke that I put on the internets because I don't want to slave over a hot tablet tonight. Call me lazy.

--m

Don't Ask Me to Choose

But then I think how much I would miss rice and beans.

Photo credit me, from Monterey Bay Aquarium. That place does make me wish I was a mermaid.

--m

My Nose is the Gift that Keeps on Giving

The title of this is what my lab mate told me as I blew my nose for the umpteenth time today. I'm hoping it's not a cold and actually a tiny baby starfish.


Pteraster tesselatus is probably my favorite star, so to have one parasitize my paranasal sinuses would be like a dream come true.

Updates are just going to be slower for now, but I will post when I can.

--m