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Going to China soon, and want to make sure I can update the world while I'm there

No pants, no service.

FAJ was in the arctic with his team. Now when you're a paleontologist working in the arctic, it's just your team out there. The plane and pilot that got you there have left. Sometimes they come back for visits.

FAJ had stepped into some serious mud. He got back to his tent and took off his boots and pants and settled down to take a nap. Suddenly he hears the helicopter and realizes that the pilot has come for a visit. He jumps out of the tent, puts on his boots, and runs out to give the pilot the signal to land. Out of the helicopter comes the pilot, and he introduces a female leader of a museum in the UK to a pantsless FAJ.

Nobody smiles in the arctic. - FAJ

After years of trying to find the correct layer of dirt to dig in, FAJ's team sets up camp. They go out every day in pairs because the cardinal rule of the arctic is that you never let anyone go anywhere alone. Also, you should be armed with a rifle at all times because there are polar bears and they can sneak up on you. One day, all the pairs come back except one. This person comes back alone and has no idea where her partner is. They wait a long time and just as they are about to go out and look for him, he comes back. FAJ prides himself on never having used curse words on campus, but he was an officer in the Marines, so he knows a word or two. He used nearly every word in yelling at that guy because he was so scared that he had been eaten by a polar bear or had frozen to death. The guy sheepishly said he found something interesting. Well he had, and the next day they all went out to where he had found that bone and started digging. Lo and behold, they found a very interesting fossil of a fish with wrist and finger bones. They asked the Inuits what to name it, and they said the name for that fish was Tiktaalik, which is a cod or something that lives up there.

Deinonychus Discovery

Apparently FAJ's wife discovered the very first deinonychus skeleton.  They were out on a dig, and she was using a jackhammer. She was just jackhammering away and didn't realize that there were teeth and bone fragments flying all over the place so FAJ starts yelling for her to stop. And that's how they discovered the deinonychus.

They got it wrong, I was 210. -KW

I just saw some newspaper clippings from when KW was a heavyweight boxer in 1977.  What a guy!  He was 19 years old, and the tallest one in every picture.  There was one picture with him punching a guy in the face.  He said that that guy was taller than him, but he broke his nose in that fight.  I'm so impressed!

This is the best sentence in an email that I've ever received from a professor.

...they weren't able to begin any jerboa biomechanics-xray video work because she had no extra spare adults that weren't busy having sex and trying to make babies.

Am I gonna take this dog too?

This is a PR story about FJ.

Years and years ago, FJ had some dogs.  They didn't get along with his wife or something, it's not clear, so he asked PR if he could keep them at CFS.  PR said sure, I can do that, and he put them out in the back and they would hang out with the goats and emus and stuff.  PR would take them on walks and run them and play with them because they're lonely.  They're basically his dogs, except that FJ said that he should be charged for food and stuff.  This goes on for like 3 or 4 years.  Then one day PR is driving in Cambridge with his wife, and he sees FJ walking a dog down the street.  PR yells out the window "Hey! Am I gonna take this dog to CFS too?"  FJ's all confused, like what are you talking about?  He had totally forgotten about those other dogs, and asked PR to find a nice home for them.  He gave them to a lady near CFS, and she baked him something nice for Christmas that year.