Comments on: Mind the Rock Snot

By: The Ciliated Oceanic Conveyor Belt of Doom

The Ciliated Oceanic Conveyor Belt of Doom — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:57:04 +0000

[…] does not yet seem to have reached), I’m sure I’d still be excited if I did. Just as rock snot is destructive and ugly macroscopically but gorgeous up close, were one to look up close at the teeming ctenophore hordes that are doing so much damage to the […]

By: Jennifer Frazer

Jennifer Frazer — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:30:11 +0000

Amen to that, Sister. :) I agree with you on both counts.

By: Lissa Harris

Lissa Harris — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:27:06 +0000

Hi Jennifer — checking out your marvelous blog after a long absence, I came across this post, and had to feature it on our Catskills-area news website.

http://www.watershedpost.com/2010/pretty-little-didymo

I’ve got a big, big love for the underappreciated creatures of the world. This one’s a tough one to love, though. Didymo is the terror of our waterways around here.

But like they say, “all God’s critters got a place in the choir.”

By: Jennifer Frazer

Jennifer Frazer — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:39:04 +0000

Thank you, Ben! That’s extremely flattering since you were one of this stylist’s key influences! : ) I have not forgotten about your Chicago travel offer — soon, I hope!

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:21:19 +0000

That 4th paragraph is now one of my all-time favorite pieces of English prose. Thanks, Jen!

By: Jennifer Frazer

Jennifer Frazer — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:22:12 +0000

That depends on who’s using it! : ) Sorry it was not the “white paper” you had in mind . . .

By: Penelope

Penelope — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:55:58 +0000

Hi Jennifer, I’ve followed Claire’s lead to your terrific site. I opened the ‘White Paper’ link at the end of the Rock Snot article, thinking that someone might have taken seriously my idle thought on seeing didymo dried and bleached on the Waitaki River bed: it could make great ‘white paper’ — but would every page embody as much potential damage as a felt-soled fisherman’s wader?

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Tweets that mention Mind the Rock Snot -- Topsy.com — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:55:26 +0000

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By: other amy

other amy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:09:50 +0000

eugh, but complex!

and then this one…
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/08/scienceshot-zombies-thrived-on.htmlhttp://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/08/scienceshot-zombies-thrived-on.html

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:38:28 +0000

Unrelated: I feel very strongly that littoral should be pronounced with the emphasis on the middle syllable (lit-tor’-al instead of lit’-t[shwa]r-al). I was shocked and appalled to find out that this was not the case.

That is all.