The wording on your question is tricky. Yes and no, depending on how you define some things.

I was working on a "Sand people moving in single file on pogo sticks" joke, but I couldn't really get it together.

I thought it was very funny. As an Episcopalian, regular church goer, and singer in the choir, I thought it was very funny. Not offensive at all. Have a great spring!

For a good size rush of water the Taum Sauk reservior failure was small, but indicative.

The trials of moderating comments while en route to lecture and on my phone: getting the explanation exactly backwards & failing to include the video-link I totally thought I had. Sigh...

Yes! We finally got a really solid answer on them last year when a pair of researchers managed to capture the sliding on video. Here's the peer-reviewed version, here's the popular-science version, and here's the video version.

Needed that. Thanks!

That was where the twelve apostles carried you on their pogo sticks.

Thank you for joining in!

Geomorphology holds a soft-spot for me because landforms are something everyone can see and wonder about, yet change drastically depending on where you live. Even knowing the tiniest bit of local geologicgeologic history can be enough to unravel so many mysteries!

I'm still delighted we finally caught them in the act of sliding. Finally, we know they're windblown on mud, not drifting on ice! Still so freaking cool to think that something as stereotypically heavy and solid as a rock can drift in the wind with appropriate lubrication.

You see? If the original post had labeled it properly, I would have known it was an Al-Star and not a Safari.

No mention of the Safari pen?

I think you misspelled “towel.”

Because there isn’t a Lamy Safari in the picture.

“Avoid Telling Anybody That You Named the Critical Voice In Your Head So You Don’t End Up In the Nuthouse”

Why isn’t the Lamy Safari mentioned below?

I’ve done that before, but I gave the voice my real name so it didn’t help. I think I’ll rename it “John Boehner” and see if that helps.

We bought a couple of these in the past - they work fine but the USB plugs were a little underpowered to charge iPads. (Good for phones, though.) The ones in this sale may be newer models with a little more oomph.

We bought a couple of these in the past - they work fine but the USB plugs were a little underpowered to charge…

Yup I was missing it, they switched up the checkout page some and I missed the text to expand that option hidden at the top, mucho thanks

Yup I was missing it, they switched up the checkout page some and I missed the text to expand that option hidden at…