This July is rapidly shaping up to be one of the driest, hottest, and smokiest on record. Each day the temperatures rise into the 80 degree range which is appallingly hot for Arnor at this time of year. Most houses in Hobbiton don’t have air conditioning so that means that the interior temperature of our [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Re: Smoke Gets in Our Eyes
Posted in Hobbiton life, tagged Climate change, Forest fires, Kippered on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Re: Bringin’ the Awesome!
Posted in Memorials, Popular culture, Video, YouTube, tagged Michael Jackson's Thriller, Toolik Lake Field Station, Zombies on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A summer of field work can turn grad students and student workers into zombies and here to prove this are the good folks at the Toolik Lake Research Station on the North Slope of Alaska doing their tribute to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Those are mosquito head nets that they are wearing, by the way. Note [...]


