telophase | Apr. 24th, 2015

Apr. 24th, 2015

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We went to a show in Dallas last night, a fundraiser for a literacy center that featured Grant and Martha from the NPR show/podcast A Way with Words. While we were waiting for the curtain to rise, we talked about the shows we had tickets to this year and realized that they were all NPR people: this one, then in May, we're going to see a talk by Jad Abumrad with Zoe Keating on cello providing music, and in November David Sedaris is coming back to the Bass Hall. I feel so ~~nerdy~~ intellectual.

Toby would like to stress that he found the May show and wants to go entirely because he's a fan of Zoe Keating's music and she's not giving a regular concert in North Texas (we'd have to drive to Austin or Houston that weekend), but I still called him a nerd.

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Just got a form email from the dealership we bought my car from. It says we've been picked to participate in their Vehicle Exchange Program and that we can probably change our current car for a newer model one and keep our payment of $145.36 the same!

Alas, they don't seem to realize that we only financed $5000 of the car--and only did that because it took $1500 off the price of the car--and paid it all off two weeks later.

Gosh, what a deal.

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Just got complimented on my pin.
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If you've got a few minutes to kill, Zooniverse has another camera-trap project, this one focusing on chimpanzees (and other animals) in West Africa. It's simple: you watch a 15-second video from a camera trap somewhere in the bush, and mark any animals in in and what they're doing. (If it's chimps, they have a couple more questions.) Answer to the best of your ability: if you get it wrong, it's OK because they show each video to many volunteers and the wisdom of the crowd has been shown, statistically from the Snapshot Serengeti project, to work quite well in IDing what's there.

Anyway, sometimes you're rewarded with awesome videos like these two juvenile male elephants play-fighting!

EDIT: There's also this (human) guy dancing with a machete. Unknown at the moment if he's a researcher there to deal with the cameras, a poacher, or a local of another sort. Either way, he's got some moves.

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