What I have accomplished today

Made a 200-page double-sided copy from a 200-page double-sided copy of a book* without a single incidence of paper jam or another person walking into the room wanting to use the copier. What are the chances of that ever happening again in our short lives?

Explored more of the area that was the subject of yesterday's post. I will post today's findings some other day.

Finished reading the 1 September issue of the New Scientist. The cover story What's the point of religion? was lame. My answer: there is none.

Measured about 30 shells of Paramastus spratti, a land snail endemic to Turkey. The total measured shells is now 100.

Read an article on spiders** that was brought to my attention by a brief review at The Other 95%. I am not too impressed with their findings. The results obtained with field-collected spiders and lab-grown spiders don't quite agree with each other. I think that is an expected (inevitable?) outcome of such studies. More on that later.

Watched some old videos of Erkin Koray, a Turkish rock musician. This song from the early 1970s has always been a favorite of mine.

*Defiance of copyright laws is so much fun. Evil laugh
**K.M. Wrinn and G.W. Uetz. Impacts of leg loss and regeneration on body condition, growth, and development time in the wolf spider Schizocosa ocreata. Can. J. Zool. 85:823–831 (2007).