Recent content by uncgriff

Everyone is focused on the governor and mayor races but this appears to me to be the real bell weather from last night and it should really spook the non insane members of the GOP. Hopefully this will force some movement on the shutdown.

Adding that the only people that seem to care anymore are the fools who think they will get rich quick with sports betting. I just shake my head at every fan dual advertisment but the reality is THAT is the new target audience. Not the loyal fans who consistently tailgated and put their butts...

College sports has been ruined beyond repair. Lifelong passionate fans like myself no longer give 2 shits. I will watch when convenient but will no longer work my life events around the UNC basketball schedule. And when I watch it is with a clinical detachment which is very odd to me and...

Never been. Flying out today. 15 days Tokyo, kyoto, Osaka. First big trip I have ever gone on where I did not have anything on my personal agenda. We are doing a Mt Fuji day trip, Hiroshima and omakase sushi Anything else I should definitely not miss?

Yeah. Disney currently makes money from people with YTTV who never watch their channels at all. Hard to believe they would walk away from that

I viscerally hate the fact that is the ACC. It took my quite awhile to figure out pitts logo

these are mostly Egyptian artifacts and a lot of scarabs and cylinder scrolls/seals. very common and we used to mark pots and other clay items to tell what was in them or who owned them. I have a very close friend who actually collected most everything I have shown here and he sold them to...

these are mostly Greek, Roman, Egyptian and other early antiquities. everything I have was bought from reputable dealers who are still in business and I have certificates of authenticity. Almost all countries now have laws against taking these type of things out of the country but obviously...

model of the HMS Victory, cave bear skull, baby cave bear, early winged dinosaur called a Confucius bird, crab, dinosaur eggs, early reptile and very large megalodon tooth

various items, T rex tooth cast, shark, large trilobite, baby plesiosaur, some fish, vertebra of a duck billed dinosaur and a dwarf mammoth tusk, the thing at the far right is a cave bear penis bone. Humans and whales are the only mammals who do not have a penis bone by the way

these are most of my trilobites (which are my favorite fossil) some amber and dinosaur teeth

these are my meteorites and my Allosaurus skull cast. the original is at the New York museum of natural history

I don't have the time to try and reproduce what I did before which was to describe each in detail. I will share some pics of my study with a few highlights pointed out. this is the best I can do for an overview. combination of reading/music/museum room I guess.

I got a behind the scenes tour of the facility and met the preparators Of this exhibit. Very cool. I sadly have to own up to the fact that while I am a huge fossil enthusiast and have what is likely one of the better private collections around (documented years ago on a zzl thread now...