Grist for the Mill
Feb. 25th, 2004 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI awoke today, as sometimes happens, with a headache (as sometimes happens) and so asked ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taxlady to make me a Cafe au Lait while I tried to figure out how to make my eyes blink in unison. While engaged in this act, I was idly sitting in front of the TV and flipping chanels, only to come across an obvious CGI image of an aquatic slug visiting an undersea mound of kelp flowers.
To make a long story short, it turns out to be a new television series on speculative evolution(!!) based on the works of Dougal Dixon, the author of "After Man" and "Man After Man". These are both works worth owning (if you are me) although Mr. Dixon has certain flaws in his understanding of both biomechanics and applied genetics. That said, I plan to tape and watch as much of the series as I can get my hands on. When one is trying to write a book on Xenobiology, even semi-competant source materials are frustratingly rare.
taxlady to make me a Cafe au Lait while I tried to figure out how to make my eyes blink in unison. While engaged in this act, I was idly sitting in front of the TV and flipping chanels, only to come across an obvious CGI image of an aquatic slug visiting an undersea mound of kelp flowers.To make a long story short, it turns out to be a new television series on speculative evolution(!!) based on the works of Dougal Dixon, the author of "After Man" and "Man After Man". These are both works worth owning (if you are me) although Mr. Dixon has certain flaws in his understanding of both biomechanics and applied genetics. That said, I plan to tape and watch as much of the series as I can get my hands on. When one is trying to write a book on Xenobiology, even semi-competant source materials are frustratingly rare.
