N.V.G.A: Supercon

Huzzah to our Colorado Cutthroat Connection (C3) boys (and girls) that went to the National Video Games Association's Supercon in New Mexico!

Colorado took just about everything there: Virtua Fighter 5, Guilty Gear, Halo 4 v. 4, Smash Bros., Eye of Judgment, and probably something else that I've forgotten about.

New Mexico needs to step up their game. I was a bit bummed that I didn't get to go to compete in the Call of Duty 4 part, but seeing as I'm leaving for Wyoming tomorrow, I probably couldn't have taken two weeks off for a video game tournament as well as taking a half a week off for my Wyoming trip. Oh well.

Wish me luck in Wyoming! We're doing our annual spring concert for the people of Pine Haven (you'll have to look it up) called the Thaw, so I'll be there from Weds until probably Monday. Hopefully I'll be able to do some fossil hunting while I'm up there. The guy that owns property just farther up the hill from where I'll be staying has a plesiosaur in his front yard, so that's cool.

-Erin

"It's pining for the fijords!"

This is a nifty article on a newly discovered parrot fossil from Scandinavia, probably the oldest fossil of a parrot (possibly, from only one bone they say it could have been an ibis).

Anywho, check out the article.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080523-oldest-parrot.html

-Erin

Outing

I was out at a few sites where I work called Triceratops Trail, Dinosaur Ridge and the I-70 Road Cut taking some photos of trampled dinosaur trackways for our exhibits and had a pretty good day. Despite the tornadoes that ravaged north-eastern Colorado yesterday, the foothills were breezy and about 65-70 degrees with just a bit of rain.

Here's some pics that I took yesterday. Those geo and paleo fans may find them interesting. Pics of some ornithopod trackways from the South Platte Formation (Dinosaur Ridge), a small wild lizard (non-dinosaurian), a lovely look at the green/gray/maroon siltstones of the Morrison Formation, neat vertical banding in mudstones from (I believe) the Lytle Formation, and a trampled track area from the Laramie Formation (probably Triceratops and a species of hadrosaur, most likely Edmontosaurus as the formation is aged to 68 MY).

-Erin

A Frogamander!

Howdy! For those that are interested, check out this National Geographic post on a new, 290 million year old amphibian they think may be the missing link in that particular family tree.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080521-frog-fossil.html

So, nifty stuff! I know NatGeo doesn't always publish the "newest" of materials, but I hadn't read this on before.

-Erin

Oh the Joy of Blogging

So, since everyone else in the world (wide web) has a blog...I figured that MySpace doesn't really count and created one here. I'll probably be focused on science, video games, paleontology and geology, since those are things I'm pretty passionate about.

So...hope you all enjoy! Please comment as you need, good or bad, but if you don't leave a name at the bottom of an anonymous post it'll probably be deleted. Just so you all know. :)

Happy blogging!

-Erin