{"id":3506,"date":"2012-09-30T04:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2012-09-30T04:06:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T12:06:47","slug":"black-metal-deep-vents-unicorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Black Metal, Deep Vents, Unicorns."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apparently this is what the people look like where we're going.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dateline Pearson International Airport:<\/em><\/p>\n

if you\u2019re the kind of person who reads the fine print on blog sidebars, you might know that a week from now Caitlin and I are going to be in Upsalla for Kontrast; I’m looking forward to it, and the BUG will doubtless also be looking forward to it once our plane has successfully crossed the Atlantic without crashing.<\/p>\n

What you probably don’t <\/em>know is that we’re leaving now, in time to give a tag-team lecture to a bunch of marine biologists in Norway the \u2014<\/p>\n

Dateline Frankfurt<\/em>, after not getting any sleep (also not crashing):<\/p>\n

“John Carter” is even worse<\/em> when viewed on a pixel-hashed 15cm screen embedded in the seat of someone in the row ahead of you who is compulsively using her seat-recline function to try and break your nose<\/p>\n

Dateline somewhere over Europe, heading to the land of the Troll Hunters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2014 deliver a tag-team<\/a> lecture to a bunch of marine biologists at the University of Bergen<\/a>, on Monday. It will be the first time I have delivered a lecture to an audience of scientists in an academic setting in about twenty years. It will be the first time Caitlin’s done that ever<\/em>. Neither talk will be very scientific but mine, at least, will have graphs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Caitlin will be talking about stuff like this.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’ve never been to Bergen before. Apparently it’s Scandinavia’s black metal capital<\/a>; even Sabbath-era Ozzie would be a pussy next to these guys. But it’s also a major marine science nexus: In addition to the university it’s got an Institute of Marine Research<\/a>, a Fisheries Directorate<\/a>, and a Center for Geobiology<\/a>. Not to mention a bunch of offshore oil rigs, more fish farms and seafood processors than you could swing a manatee at, and perhaps the last remaining market for Newfoundland seal pelts on the whole damn continent (let us hope they haven’t seen that politics-of-sealing documentary I had a hand in a few years back.) I’ve been told I might even end up having beers with a few folks who discovered some hydrothermal vent communities in the North Atlantic (and let us hope they<\/em> haven’t read Starfish<\/em>).<\/p>\n

At this point, however, my fatigued and weary brain is capable of only two thoughts: 1) I’m not worthy; and 2) I gotta give a talk tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I should probably get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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