Caitlin Burke

An ecstasy of fumbling at this year’s IgNobel awards:

The Public Health prize went to Dr. Elena Bodnar, who here straps a portion of a bra she designed (it converts into a pair of gas masks) to the face of Wolfgang Ketterle. More

A foggy little walk in Golden Gate Park

More at Flickr

I’ve been meaning to take pictures of these ferns near work for a while.

More fern pictures at Flickr.

Yesterday in the office, Roscoe really got into a bowl of grits. There wasn’t much to see while his face was in there, but when he took it out…

I visited the Getty Center while I was in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago and very much enjoyed the grounds in particular.

Or should I say, “the ground.”

Fossil. August 2005

Fossil is so named because as I constructed it I was thinking of Meganeura,
a huge 320 million years old dragonfly-like insect belonging to the Protodonata group,
which had a wing span of around 70cm.

See larger photos and more at James G Watt’s site.

Ok, this is kind of a cheat. Today I made Rice Krispie treats. No points for guessing what else I “accomplished” today.

Thursday I was at odds.