Roadtrip!
While this is technically a Roadtrip blog, I’ve gotta say that it’s been woefully short on actual road trips lately. Air trips? Sure. Sea trips? Plenty. But getting out on […]
New Story: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Tom, our usual multibeam tech, had broken a leg the week before deployment, falling off a ladder while cleaning his gutters, and the lead Marine Tech landed in quarantine when her little fever turned out to be a lingering case of malaria from that stint in the Gambia. The fact that our new chief scientist conversed with imaginary friends did nothing to settle anyone’s nerves. And all that was before we found out about the dog….” – To Say Nothing of the Dog
Seaside Interlude
When I was a young grad student, first dipping my toes into the chest-thumping battleground of academic conferences, there were two almost entirely disjoint, competing research communities who acknowledged each […]
New Story: The Duchess
“No one was willing to say for sure whether Billy Eriksen’s body was in the boat when they set it afire that night. I suppose it’s better that way…
Not About Apples After All
This was going to be a post about apples. Because the day started with a very special apple: the first (and so far only) apple that our little backyard Apple […]
New Story: The Garage
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” -Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four
Re-Entry
The painted, tightly-wrapped stick figures in stiletto heels contend for passing space in the corridor with enormous, rotund traffic in tent-like sequined t-shirts declaring “Don’t Mess With Texas.” They […]
Safe in the Harbor
The funny thing is that I didn’t even need to set foot on solid ground. Simply feeling the ship snug up against the dock, listening as Rob and Jeremy and […]
Another Day, Another Rogue Robot to Hunt Down…
We were just about through the Drake, about an hour short of where Cabo San Diego would let us cut left and shelter in the lee of Tierra del Fuego […]
I Think We’re Done Here
And just like that, we’re done. With the science, that is, for the most part. I was just coming on shift, around 11:30 p.m., and the zoo crowd was doling […]
David Pablo Cohn 