{"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":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":0},"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. This summer's play was their adaptation of Peter Pan, which was a bit odd since Sub-Evil had played the part of John in the high school production of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"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":1},"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. 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While most UMM students realize that they can vote in this election, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":147,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/05\/09\/theres-a-special-circle-in-hell-for-this-sort-of-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":4},"title":"There&#8217;s a special circle in hell for this sort of thing&#8230;","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"9 May 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently our local elementary school lost quite a lot of computer equipment (a server, switches, hubs, printer, and drives) over the weekend. 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