Important note to readers and contributors

June 26, 2015 • 1:00 pm

If you’ve been in Alma Ata or something, you may not know that I’m going on the big Road Trip tomorrow, returning about August 8. Along the way I hope to see some of you—as well as your cats. Posting will be light, but we hope to keep things puttering away at some level. In the meantime, two requests for readers.

1. If you have something to email me, Jerry, please do so only once every ten days or so.  I will be out of Internet contact a lot of the time, and won’t be able to deal with lots of reader emails. If you have wildlife photos, please put them in an email with the header “Readers’ wildlife photos.”

2.  If you want to contribute something to the website beyond that, Grania will have the keys and can take suggestions. You can reach her on Twitter @ygern, or leave her a note in the comments. She can then pull your email from the comment information (the non-public email you put down when posting a comment) and contact you directly.

If I die in a car crash (I haz premonitions), it’s been a good run, and hoist a good glass in my memory. kthxbai.

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70 thoughts on “Important note to readers and contributors”

  1. Tell you what, next time I open a bottle I’ll raise a glass in your honour in any case. Lets leave the car crash for much later.

    And all the best for your trip.

  2. Should we put some libation into that good glass*? 😁

    /@

    * I have a pair of very fine lead crystal tumblers. I also have several varieties of very fine spirits. It will be a good send off.

  3. Premonitions? Yikes. You’ll be fine Jerry. Don’t drive when you’re tired and beware of highway hypnosis in some of those really boring states.

    1. ack! premonitions of death? Stop saying that!

      and yes, don’t drive tired, drunk, or stoned. don’t car surf. don’t play chicken or drag race down dead man’s curve, don’t steal the captain of the football team’s girlfriend, don’t ride your motorcycle through the South wearing an american flag helmet and smuggling drugs, don’t get into bar fights with biker gangs in Texas…did I leave anything out?

      oh, yeah, and don’t forget to have a good time!
      then, yes, you’ll be fine. Bon Voyage!

        1. Sounds like the advice I got from my (late and much lamented) mother, (who died in 1999) which I may summarize as:
          “Whatever, just don’t be stupid”.
          Sorry, I won’t be in the area (Bay Area) when you hit SF, but I wish I was there.

  4. Aren’t you supposed to say “god forbid” every time you suggest a tragic occurrence like a car crash?

  5. I promise not to go over 160mph when I take you for a ride in the Cobra.

  6. Good luck professor and I sincerely hope you’ll have a great time. I’ll lift a glass of wine to your safe return. Ceiling Cat-speed!

  7. Keep gas in the tank and oil in the crank case. Don’t forget your Saint Christopher medalion (or magnetic dash board statue – ooo, maybe he comes as a bobble head these days). Have a great trip!

  9. I am sure we all eagerly await the occasional posting while your are on your trip. I have a long line-up of wild insect photos, but they can wait of course.

    1. “…we all eagerly await the occasional posting…”

      I can’t wait! Love living vicariously via Jerry. 😀

  10. Bon Voyage! If you’re planning to drive into Aspen by way of Hwy 24 and 82 over Independence Pass (one of my favorite drives, when the Pass is open), be sure to stop at the Evergreen Cafe in Buena Vista for breakfast or lunch noms.

    Although many of the patrons bring their d*gs along, so maybe not … 😉

  11. I’d say not to worry about a car crash or that it won’t happen but I’d feel like I were cursing you if I did (having a Classics education, the concept of hybris fits nicely into my regular OCD). So, I wish you safe travels and good times. We here in non meat world willies you while you’re on the road. Now I’m going to have to just troll Ant on FaceBook in the mean time. 🙂

    1. Ha ha willies you. That was supposed to be will miss you. So funny that was totally my comeuppance for making the Ant comment.

    1. More proof atheists really do believe in God, and humans have a need for such belief in their soul! 🙂

      Have a wonderful time Jerry! I’ll miss you, and be thinking of you. 🙂

  15. Probably out of your way, but Glacier National Park is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen.
    Safe travels.

    1. I agree with the above statement, Glacier NP is amazing.

      Have a wonderful trip, Jerry!

      1. I hear most of the actual glaciers have amazingly disappeared. Is it still in reasonable shape?

  16. Have a nice trip you might have mixed emotions being away from the net.Or maybe not and enjoy time away from this blasted pc .

  17. Is Jerry’s email address posted anywhere on this site?

    I can’t find it.

      1. I’ll kill a chicken and perform some ritual with it’s blood. That should put everything in order.

          3. I’ll add it to the chicken ritual. I’ve been to prayer services, it’s always a smorgasbord.

          4. Please note, everyone, that Diana “Rebel With A Cause” MacPherson wants to “mess” with Jerry’s toilet paper. She does not want to fix it, or correct it, or put it right – she wants to mess with it. Sometimes words speak louder than words. Diana knows she is in the wrong – her very words betray her. Repent! It is your sole salvation.

          5. I actually thought about using the word “fix” when I wrote that but from Jerry’s perspective and the perspective of most, I would be messing with it, so I chose to go with that because it was more relatable and sinister. Also, messing with something is rather neutral (regardless of its sinister connotation) because you are changing its state. I mess with my car and I mess with my coworkers. Either could have positive or negative results.

        1. Yes but you must hop an even amount of times & your height of jumping as well as your frequency must be uniform. You also need to stay in the same area and any deviation, even a centimeter, ruins the whole thing.

          If you mess any of this up, you have to start over.

          3. Yes, four is the best number. You can go with 6 in a pinch but 8 is your next best option.

  19. I’m sure someone is dying to know this but the latest stats, 2013 indicate 33,636 killed with guns and 32,719 killed in traffic accidents. So you can take your pick. One thing is for sure — there are tons more going by these methods than by terrorist in this country. But look where all the money is spent.

  20. Bon voyage, and enjoy time with your friends and their cats, and even with Deets. Does Stephen Barnard have a cat as well as Deets and the goats?

  26. Please do not die, car crash or otherwise. Your abrupt, permanent departure would be very upsetting, your loss very harshly felt. May your premonition protect you from harm.

  27. Grania, I just emailed a suggested posting topic to PCC, timely for current events here in the USA. Do you think you can find it? It went to his j-coyne address.

  28. For Grania, while the cat’s away …

    From the BBC News website:

    “Iceland’s parliament has abolished its blasphemy laws, despite opposition from *some* of the country’s churches … The Iceland Monitor website said that the Church of Iceland supported the change … The Catholic Church of Iceland, the Pentecostal Church and the Church of Iceland’s eastern province opposed the changes.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33378778

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