But no need to worry about me, Mr Finch. Only joking. Besides, there's so much to do, there's no time to have bad habits.
Idle hands, that's what gets people into trouble, so I'm told.
Fortunately I am never idle.
That's right. A bunch of villages on the West coast-- Lyme Regis is the one you might've heard of. Dunno if you read anything that's not typical sci-fi, but Jane Austen wrote about the place, and John Fowler as well, in The French Lieutenant's Woman (which if you've not read, you ought to-- don't be put off by the title, it's about time travel and it's smashing).
Anyway, there was this lady, Mary Anning, back in the 1800's, she's one of the greats in paleontology. Discovered the first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, and made loads of other fossil discoveries as well. She was the one who worked out what coprolites were! They used to think they were bezoars. Never got the credit she deserved in her day, died broke, you know the drill when it comes to women in science back then, I reckon.
But here I'm rabbiting on. Anyway, yeh, I like dinosaurs all right.
How d'you fancy the computers here? Made any earth-shattering discoveries?
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Idle hands, that's what gets people into trouble, so I'm told.
Fortunately I am never idle.
That's right. A bunch of villages on the West coast-- Lyme Regis is the one you might've heard of. Dunno if you read anything that's not typical sci-fi, but Jane Austen wrote about the place, and John Fowler as well, in The French Lieutenant's Woman (which if you've not read, you ought to-- don't be put off by the title, it's about time travel and it's smashing).
Anyway, there was this lady, Mary Anning, back in the 1800's, she's one of the greats in paleontology. Discovered the first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, and made loads of other fossil discoveries as well. She was the one who worked out what coprolites were! They used to think they were bezoars. Never got the credit she deserved in her day, died broke, you know the drill when it comes to women in science back then, I reckon.
But here I'm rabbiting on. Anyway, yeh, I like dinosaurs all right.
How d'you fancy the computers here? Made any earth-shattering discoveries?