Live from amnh

So its my lunch break right now - sitting in my classroom in the museum. This is a pretty fun job and the students are great. They are pretty much ideal as they have all chosen to be here and undergone a difficult application process. So things are going well on the museum front.

As some of you may know, I was initially opposed to the iphone thinking it was not as great as it was cracked up to be. Well since then I've gone to an apple store and played with one and I'm thoroughly impressed. I want one. Of course it would cost me 200 bucks to terminate with sprint, then another 500 for a phone then a new at&t contract. Thats a lot of money, honey.

It makes me think, have pretty much all the people who were going to get an iphone already gotten one? Are people going to keep buying them? It seems that they are cost prohibitive to most. Any thoughts from the avery's of the world?

thnking about iphones an apple in general, the apple enthusiansts should all be reading this. Its worth your time.

I'll be in nyc through august 18th. then Lila and I are going to Maine
ine and new Hampshire. We're coming back on the 27th or something like that. So visits are in order.

Orinoco River Basin or Upper West Side?

I set my aquarium back up we moved back to the city. It styled as a south american black water aquarium. You can look it up if you care. Either way it has Discus Fish and angelfish.

My new job

I attended a 7 day institute at the Museum of Natural History on evolutionary biology and creating trees that show evoluntionary relationships between creatures. From that institute I found out about an open position to teach for The Museum for a program called the Lang Science Team.

Well I got hired and I start tomorrow. I'm teaching ten ninth graders for three weeks and then every other saturday throughout the academic year. I'm teaching them about frogs, Ecdysozoans, and coaching them through a research project. Today I have to go to The Museum to learn about frogs and Ecdysozoans so I'm prepared.



Additionally, I get a museum staff pass and guest passes so if you want to see dinosaurs - come to nyc.

Do I exsist? (before you go thinking I've gone all Matt Spooner, read on)

What does it mean to exist? Pretty existential I guess but I have my own personal answer. You exist where you spend your time (duh). So when Lila pointed out recently that I spend all my time online, I got to thinking. If I spend more time online, interacting with the web, than I do taking to people, do I exist online? Sure. But If I don't contribute anything, I'm more like a ghost roaming the 0's and 1's of the metaphysical. (whatever that means)

So morty's world is back. With a new look. A promise for more updates. Thoughts. Experiences. And trying to seem more witty than I actually am.

See you tomorrow