tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.comments2023-10-25T04:04:15.348-07:00When Pigs Fly ReturnsZachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692080707969333711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-28796790651855821132013-01-20T11:10:35.701-08:002013-01-20T11:10:35.701-08:00Dear sweet Jebus, idiot whankers that found Power ...Dear sweet Jebus, idiot whankers that found Power Girl's outfit offensive need to grow the hell up. Yeah, Glendon, this means YOU. You obviously missed the half dozen times this Blogger pointed out that the other female heroes are getting sexier, more revealing outfits while PG is being forced into coveralls and a cape. <br /><br />And a Barbie Doll??? Again, the author made the valid point that she is anything but the typical tall, slender yet busty heroine. PG had hips and would be considered voluptuous.<br /><br />Now, to those of you who take offence by animated women wearing revealing outfits.....DON'T READ THESE COMICS, COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND TURN TO TAME COMICS!!!! Disney still has them on the market, maybe look into Archie or something. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-89793380611992704042012-10-23T21:10:45.439-07:002012-10-23T21:10:45.439-07:00Wow, this takes me back! I still have a couple do...Wow, this takes me back! I still have a couple dozen of these back home at my parents house in their original boxes and everything. Dino-Riders was my favorite toy ever. They were awesome and still are!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00430953789200318182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-29609262876895032592012-07-03T21:13:42.384-07:002012-07-03T21:13:42.384-07:00Best of luck to you. Your creative juices can be e...Best of luck to you. Your creative juices can be expressed in a myriad of ways, and all are valid. Will send much good energy your way.<br /><br />RichRichMeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10172004008261499457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-396880903006434722012-05-29T03:28:00.240-07:002012-05-29T03:28:00.240-07:00I know I am late to the party, but I was reading t...I know I am late to the party, but I was reading this post today. I just wanted to say, mainly to Erik, that micro-evolution and macro-evolution are not separate processes. They are simply the same thing looked at from different scales of time.<br /><br />For example, if you agree that micro-evolution can occur, as we have tons of evidence for, you are at the same time saying macro evolution happens, because it is the same thing.<br /><br />It's like saying, "I believe in millimetres but not kilometres." <br /><br />Macro evolution is just looking at lots of micro-changes over a larger period of time.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-37669840820271255412012-04-12T18:24:49.792-07:002012-04-12T18:24:49.792-07:00hell yeah! brings me back to a time of better game...hell yeah! brings me back to a time of better games!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-3843493166703696402012-04-01T07:21:48.697-07:002012-04-01T07:21:48.697-07:00Excellent point... Not the first time this has bee...Excellent point... Not the first time this has been done before of course, but still no less true this instance.<br /><br />I'm planning on mentioning this post and trying to kick start a discussion on ART Evolved about fragmented specimens and reconstructions. Would love your expanded commentary if we spark off a thread (I'm going to try and bait sauropod fans in particular ;P )traumadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387315561167115253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-90000647493049164832012-03-31T10:51:16.355-07:002012-03-31T10:51:16.355-07:00Are they retiring the character? Good riddance. I ...Are they retiring the character? Good riddance. I don't like her- she is like a Barbie doll with a cape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-76382525608685585212012-03-26T00:00:51.370-07:002012-03-26T00:00:51.370-07:00a bird not a dinoa bird not a dinoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-57343542404009662722012-03-11T13:48:56.430-07:002012-03-11T13:48:56.430-07:00The fact is that Triceratops and Torosaurus don...The fact is that Triceratops and Torosaurus don't show any real continuity in ontogeny.<br /><br />Notice that with both T. horridus and T. prorsus, the old adults reabsorb the epoccipitals and end up with orbital horns strongly curved forward. Whereas Torosaurus has nearly twice as many epoccipitals, and even on some large specimens like the MOR skull they are NOT fully reabsorbed, and the horns are more or less straight or even occasinally have a double curve like in adolescent Triceratops (the ANSP skull is like this).<br /><br />So essentially we have Horner and company claiming that Torosaurus was the mature form of Triceratops, when in fact in terms of frill stud and horn ontogeny, most or all known Torosaurus skulls are immature animals! And their horn shape is more like the teenage Triceratops than the adult Triceratops!<br /><br />Not only that, but most old adult Triceratops skulls (such as the Carnegie Museum mount) have a proportionally shorter frill than many immature Triceratops (such as the AMNH mount). So Triceratops did not increase the frill size relative to the rest of the skull as it matured, instead it made the frill more compact relative to overall skull size - this actually leads it AWAY from Torosaurus, and in another direction entirely. <br /><br />Furthermore, the most immature T. latus skull, the ANSP specimen, is only half the size of the other skulls and ontogenically much younger than many Triceratops skulls, yet still has large fenestrae, a high epoccipital count, a low sloping condor-like beak, a low snout-to-beak length ratio, and other trademark features of Torosaurus that are NOT found in Triceratops.<br /><br />The end conclusion: Torosaurus is Torosaurus, not Triceratops. No matter WHAT growth stage you look at. The odd nasal and frill morphology and young epoccipitals of the huge MOR skull also indicate there may be multiple species of Torosaurus BESIDES T. utahensis.Paleo Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15938850679516021616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-60874349331625758192012-03-11T13:34:18.524-07:002012-03-11T13:34:18.524-07:00And there are some other points the Hornerites mis...And there are some other points the Hornerites miss as well.<br /><br />* No Torosaurus has ever been found in association with a Triceratops. Wouldn't older animals with more reabsorbed horns seek the protection of a herd of their younger stronger kin? Why would they ever leave? With all the Triceratops remains that Horner and Scannella have dug up, you'd think a Torosaurus would also appear among them in the same exact bone beds and sites at least ONCE, if they are truly the same genus.....<br /><br />* No juvenile land vertebrate ever has larger postcranial bones than an adult (density is another issue entirely)<br /><br />* Remodelling of "plastic" bone does not necessarily indicate a young animal or any ontogeny with another genus that also undergoes remodelling.<br /><br />* The beaks of Torosaurus and Triceratops are radically different. No ceratopsian completely remodels its feeding equipment as it reaches adulthood.<br /><br />* NO ceratopsian has ever been known to ADD epoccipitals as it ages. They all reabsorb or LOSE epoccipitals as they get older.<br /><br />* The "Triceratops eurycephalus" skull represents a very old Triceratops individual with almost completely reabsorbed frill studs (even more completely reabsorbed than some Torosaurus specimens), and yet NO fenestration is present. The AMNH Triceratops also appears to lack fenestration despite heavy reabsorption of epoccipitals as typical of a mature ceratopsid.<br /><br />* Torosaurus is known from Utah - no Triceratops there.<br /><br />* Torosaurus referred juvenile remains are known from Big Bend, Texas. Again, no Triceratops there, and these juveniles do not appear to be Triceratops. Interestingly both Utah and Texas were also Alamosaurus' stomping grounds, though it never overlapped ranges with Triceratops...<br /><br />*Torosaurus is so much rarer than Triceratops. Why, if they are the same? If a Triceratops survives to the 30-foot "adolescent" stage (really these are adults) then why is it so common in that form, only to become super rare if it morphed into Torosaurus as a mere 25-foot adult? Assuming Horner were right, why would so many of the 30-footers die off before having the chance to grow up and become 'Torosaurus'? Surely they were not more vulnerable to predation than Torosaurus. They had greater size, longer horns, and far higher numbers!<br /><br />* Torosaurus is sometimes found in areas that had dry climates in the Maastrichtian, while Triceratops is entirely limited to wetter swampier areas (which were not very Alamosaurus-friendly due to the loose ground). Does anyone truly believe that ontogenetic stages of the very same land vertebrate genus would have different habitat needs/specializations?Paleo Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15938850679516021616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-41639974516718724812012-03-09T01:05:02.555-08:002012-03-09T01:05:02.555-08:00I agree with Jaime, work (good or bad) takes time....I agree with Jaime, work (good or bad) takes time. Have patience.<br /><br />I didn't realise it until I started doing it myself how much time this kind of thing takes.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08718847558790015112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-74623690860474823322012-03-08T11:39:42.851-08:002012-03-08T11:39:42.851-08:00I agree that we want to make our conclusions with ...I agree that we want to make our conclusions with the full dataset available. As I said in previous posts on my website (as "Qilong", not "Quilong" -- but don't worry about it) the data is being slowly revealed. The authors' primary conclusion was to set up the metaplastic work and provide the intial hypothesis: they are now set to respond to all comers, rather than shore up the primary data they are basing their conclusion on. Personally, I would prefer a monographic survey of the material in question, and NO ONE in this debate has done this (some of the material is "not available" for histological sectioning, which is a problem), but that requires even more, more time than we've got. I am more appreciative of the effort that folks like John Scannella have gone to to communicate constructively with critics of the results of the analysis, and hope for more communication in the future.Jaime A. Headdenhttp://qilong.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-9582610463670046102012-03-07T07:56:16.172-08:002012-03-07T07:56:16.172-08:00Agree with your rant... I was skeptical when this ...Agree with your rant... I was skeptical when this teory first came up and i'm still skeptical now, so, yeah, in Nature everything is possible, but i guess that, as for now, i can still look at Toro and Trike as two separate species.Alessionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-51394668377326706752012-03-06T21:39:28.879-08:002012-03-06T21:39:28.879-08:00Well put. I'm not invested at all, but I find ...Well put. I'm not invested at all, but I find it very frustrating how the Horner camp continues to claim things with so few examples out of that huge collection of specimens...<br /><br />So yes let's have that photoessay Montana boys!traumadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387315561167115253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-41169531369468637042012-02-28T20:02:07.579-08:002012-02-28T20:02:07.579-08:00It was already hard for me to read post Palmiotti/...It was already hard for me to read post Palmiotti/Gray/Conner run, becuase the other team make it very serious and dark instead of light and refreshing like Palmiotti/Gray/Conner run<br /><br />...then the reboot happened, and poor Karen got the most awful outfit ever <br /><br />Oh well, anyway all the new outfit of the new 52 are really bad. <br /><br />Now I really don't want to see Cassandra Cain in this reboot because that will hurt too much for sure.Cole Stevensonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-76309962780297392022012-02-26T00:28:28.354-08:002012-02-26T00:28:28.354-08:00Quiet, you. I'd like to see your pachyrhinosau...Quiet, you. I'd like to see your pachyrhinosaur (the one in your avatar) in 3/4th view.Zachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08692080707969333711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-52492346754263018542012-02-25T20:24:08.376-08:002012-02-25T20:24:08.376-08:00Sweet! I'd like to see him in 3/4 view, though...Sweet! I'd like to see him in 3/4 view, though.alaskanimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08299289638870579061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-66764116584749557892012-02-25T05:51:36.087-08:002012-02-25T05:51:36.087-08:00Definitely cute, yes X3Definitely cute, yes X3taicharahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02213053468697534564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-39017547042861519202012-02-17T16:50:51.284-08:002012-02-17T16:50:51.284-08:00Both Tineye.com and Google Reverse Image search al...Both Tineye.com and Google Reverse Image search allow you to upload images to see where online their being used. Great tools for artists if their worried about misuse of their artwork online. <br /><br />Google Reverse Image Search allows you to drag the image into the Google Image Search bar where you would normally type. Then it gives you results. <br /><br />I don't mind some aspects of the new costume: while I don't think super heroes and heroines need to be too prudish, I'm happy to see the days of thigh-high bathing suit superheroine costumes go away. I always found the peekaboo window on Power Girl's top to be a bit of overkill considering the size of her breasts. <br /><br />I don't know why they changed her colours to gold instead of blue on her gloves and boots. It seems unnecessary. <br /><br />I don't read a lot of DC but I have the similar feelings you do about Ms. Marvel. I love her iconic costume, but it's such a product of male fantasy, it's a bit silly for the commanding, strong ex-military to be sporting thigh-high boots and a swimsuit. At least with full body leotard (like say, Spider-Woman) the women and men are on similar footing.Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-64973868672299545812012-02-17T00:19:51.189-08:002012-02-17T00:19:51.189-08:00Thanks, Glendon. I have no idea what a "rever...Thanks, Glendon. I have no idea what a "reverse image search" is, or what Tineye is. <br /><br />This is why I hate dealing with image credits. I know it's important, I know I should do it, but it's not the first thing on my mind.<br /><br />*razzin' frazzin'...*Zachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08692080707969333711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-20178338072501625752012-02-16T21:50:30.560-08:002012-02-16T21:50:30.560-08:00Tsk tsk. That grey background Power Girl took like...Tsk tsk. That grey background Power Girl took like two seconds to find with a Google reverse image search. <br /><br />By <a href="http://pyrotech07.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d3ai99a" rel="nofollow">Pyrotech07</a>.Glendon Mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03582347493421110738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-29486951721319897632012-02-16T21:41:36.820-08:002012-02-16T21:41:36.820-08:00Credit: good start, but you only get a C- for the ...Credit: good start, but you only get a C- for the effort. Tineye and Google image search are you friends! No fix it!Dicing with Dragonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-39999579405474936712012-02-01T11:33:09.703-08:002012-02-01T11:33:09.703-08:00I'm downloading the first episode now!I'm downloading the first episode now!Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-4365164314947482622012-01-31T04:51:31.550-08:002012-01-31T04:51:31.550-08:00I agree, one of the best games on any mobile platf...I agree, one of the best games on any mobile platform, and a great game in it's own right. A must if you like MegaMan and hot chicks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902250.post-38918860258758579992012-01-30T16:29:22.643-08:002012-01-30T16:29:22.643-08:00Did you actually watch O3 series? That version of ...Did you actually watch O3 series? That version of April contributed heck of a lot more than the 87 April. I'm not trying to bash "classic" April but the only thing she seemed good for was getting kidnapped. But at her defense if it wasn't her was getting into trouble the Turtles probably wouldn't have has many adventures since most of it revolved around saving April. 03 April on the hand used her skills as a computer scientist to help the Turtles on their many adventures. And her intellect and survivor instincts is usually the key to their victory. I don't believe I can say the same for 87's April. And yes I'm afraid you're one of the few that liked the 07 film. Don't get me wrong it wastn't bad but it was much too flawed to find engaging. It probably would have been better if they had used the Shredder or some other established villain like Rat King or Stockman. Anyway, 03 April trumps the 87 April. She is smarter, more down to Earth, and more well rounded character than the classic April.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com