{"id":296,"date":"2006-01-13T00:47:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T05:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=296"},"modified":"2006-01-13T00:47:51","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T05:47:51","slug":"thanks-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/13\/thanks-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djames1313\/84117935\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/42\/84117935_1d2ee39b0e_m.jpg?resize=240%2C240\" alt=\"Thanks, Pete by D.James from Flickr\" height='240' width='240' align='right' vspace='10' hspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI wish I could take credit for this incredibly cool photo, but I can&#8217;t.  The wonderful shot on the right is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djames1313\/\">D. James<\/a> from Flickr.  Equally excellent is the tale he tells with it; I&#8217;ll make you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djames1313\/84117935\/\">click through<\/a> to check that out.  I will say, however, that both the photo and the story strongly reminded me of Peter Whelan.  Peter taught geology here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/\">UMM<\/a> for many a moon until his all-too-early death a few years ago, and he is missed as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55397833@N00\/82587816\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/37\/82587816_de00e04497_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" alt=\"Lithography by Imago from Flickr\" height='240' width='180' align='left' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>In one of those happy coincidences, at around the same time I stumbled across this fine shot of stone and lichen by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55397833@N00\/\">Imago<\/a> (also on Flickr), on the left, and I think Peter Whelan would have liked it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Then to round out the Peter theme, Peter Wyckoff (a biologist here at UMM) has asked if I&#8217;d be interested in helping out with some of the programming work he needs for a project looking at the effect of climate change on the prairie-forest border here in Minnesota.  Oh, yeah, I&#8217;m interested.  I love computer science, but I also love biology, so if I can mix them that&#8217;s definitely a happy day.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could take credit for this incredibly cool photo, but I can&#8217;t. The wonderful shot on the right is by D. James from Flickr. Equally excellent is the tale he tells with it; I&#8217;ll make you click through to check that out. I will say, however, that both the photo and the story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/13\/thanks-pete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thanks, Pete&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,1,20,12,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-4M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/29\/a-great-week-of-arts-out-here-in-the-middle-of-nowhere\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":0},"title":"A great week of arts out here in the middle of nowhere","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"29 Apr 05","format":false,"excerpt":"We've had a crazy and wonderful week or two for arts this week. Last week and this week was Cootie Shots (where Sub-Evil Boy publicly declares that I'm \"exceedingly weird\", to the great amusement of the audience) with all the attendant hullaballoo. Monday was the 5th and 6th grade band\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":213,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/08\/07\/sub-evil-boy-does-another-fine-job-in-peter-pan\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":1},"title":"Sub-Evil Boy does another fine job in Peter Pan","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"7 Aug 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Sub-Evil Boy (and about 80 other kids) just finished another crazy week at the Prairie Fire summer theater camp in Barrett, Minnesota. 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