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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My kid is in Chicago with friends for the weekend and sent me this. I wasn't too shabby in my 30s...

Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@sarahlsheffield.bsky.social works on *blastozoans*, which include blastoids, although Sarah's specialization is on the "pentamerish" groups paraphyletic relative to the blastoids. She also sells a blastoid needlework piece. Jennifer Bauer works on blastoids, but I don't think that she's here.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

… that it would be tough for character coding schemes to really capture it. However, it might require the *least* dramatic alteration to the overall shell. The front rostrum of conocardiids does look like a scaphopod welded onto a clam shell fused along most of the hinge. Perhaps some alteration…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

That is how this happened. Not only could the ump not see the ball, ABS also did not pick up that there was even a pitch!

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I found that, but that is what got me this. "pow" is supposed to be -8. However, it won't interpret pow as a variable, only as "pow" (even if it's not in quotes). The subsc(x) command works: but my Graphics program won't open the resulting pdf, and Illustrator replaces the exponents with nulls.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Halloween’s War in Labor Day clearly was a total rout, and Halloween is now elbowing out July 4th. But when will Halloween start a rearguard action against the encroachments of XMas?

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

And here is the difference between the Cubs' OPS and their opponents for the last 16 games, with the two wins in Cubby blue and the loses in shameful Cardinal red. (This is always Cubs-Opponent, and thus usually loser-winner.) I sincerely hope that there are not any questions...

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Argh: accidentally deleted the thread. OK, here's a simple way to summarize how bad the Cubs have been the last 16 games. Below is the distribution the winners' OPS minus the losers' OPS for all MLB games from 2021 to yesterday. No shocks here. @brett-taylor.bsky.social @bleachernation.bsky.social

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

… the difference between the Cubs & their opponents have been for the last 16 games, with the wins in Cubby blue and the loses in shameful Cardinal red. (The data in purple are for all games from the 2021 to yesterday.) There should be zero questions...

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

… were untorted. We get macluritids in the Ordovician that often are misdrawn as sinsistral. However, the flat part was probably the "bottom" of the shell. The top has a sinus and anal keel, so that's homologous with the slit of vetigastropods. It's not coiling "to the left": it's coiling to the…

Maclurites logani from the GSC collections.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

By the way, here's an example of a big Baltic subulitid from a little earlier in the Ordovician: Subulites gigas (d'Eichwald). As you can see by the scalebar, it's pretty chonky, too. I'm not sure that I'd be able to distinguish the Anticosti species from S. gigas: but that's a subulitid problem.

GIT 404-987. https://fossiilid.info/sv/2421?mode=in_baltoscandia#gallery-2 from the Estonian National Museum.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The snail on the left also could be H. gigantea, but there are other candidates. The one on the right is a subulitid. These also had aragonitic shells and thin ones at that. This represents a parallel (and original!) development of a neogastropod-like shail. Even the steinkerns will show a siphon…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

And here is an example of what happens to aragonite only shells! However, the size gives this away: it's almost certainly Hormotoma gigantea, which was a chonk. Interestingly, the "Chonkotoma" species also start off in the Baltic: we get a lot in the Boda limestone, often with better preservation.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is Brachytomaria papillosa (Billings 1857). It's cool for two reasons in particular. One, it's an example of the mixing of realms late in the Ordovician, as Brachytomaria starts off as a Baltic group. Two, this group has a thin calcite layer in their shell, which means that they preserve much…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Because I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Not to blow my own horn (ah, who am I kidding? I love doing that!), but I'm still sort of proud of the fact that I presented a basic solution to this way back in 1995! This was done in a much simpler framework, mind you: but, baby steps!

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Btw, here's an example of small Dickinsonia from Gold et al. (2015: Evolution & Development). You can see the "lobes" crossing the midline pretty neatly.

Figure 1. Silicone casts of four small individuals of
Dickinsonia costata from the base of a single sandstone
bed, central Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Across-
axis continuity of the serially repeated units is
unambiguous in the middle and upper (anterior) parts
of all four specimens, but becomes ambiguous as the
size of the units approaches the grain size of the casting
medium.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

And here’s the whole tree: finished with 13 hours to go! We vary which Solstice Holiday to celebrate each year, but we’re going back to a traditional FuckTrumpanalia.

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

What does one do with a childhood’s worth of Yule stuffties at childhood’s end? Turn them into seasonal decorations!

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

🎶”That’s me in the corner… that’s me in the Spot. Light…”

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

… I remember "Gates of Steel" and "Cold War" really worked for me when I was 15/16. And I probably should include John Lennon's last album, Double Fantasy. I was no fan of Yoko's weird stuff (although groups like the B-52s and Devo were hugely influenced by her), and Lennon's stuff was good but…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

… second favorite song featuring my favorite body of water. (I don't think that "Call Me" was on the original version, although it's on the CD.) And in the hard to categorize, there was Devo's "Freedom of Choice." I love that when I was 16, although it hasn't aged as well to me. Besides "Whip It,"…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And on the topic of labels, Blondie's last great album, "Autoamerican" came out late in 1980. Where they punk or new wave? (It's still rock & roll to me...) Everyone remember "Rapture," the first song with a rap to hit #1, but "The Tide is High" is a straight up good pop-tune. And "Europa" is my…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Oh, here's one that I forgot: Queen's The Game. The group was transitioning from the Progressive/Stadium Rock to more "modern" stuff, and for all of Mercury's genius, May, Deacon & Taylor all stand out. "Another One Bites the Dust" got played to death and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is the…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

… high points, although Waterfalls is just a beautiful song. ("Don't go chasing polar bears, in the great unknown... some big friendly polar bear, might want to take you home" is both cute & horrifying). And the final one is sort of the intersection of all of the above: Squeeze's Argybargy. It's…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

… Rings or Celtic mythology or something like that. It's still my favorite Gabriel album. Having mentioned the American McCartney, the original had one of his trippiest albums, McCartney II in 1980. It's basically a great musician playing everything in his home studio: the instrumentals are the…

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

… we love labels, except for Peter Gabriel, who's 3rd Peter Gabriel Album came out in 1980. (We fans called it "Melt") Games without Frontiers, Biko, I Don't Remember, Family Snapshot all had the musical gravitas of Progressive Rock, but were very sociopolitical instead of being about Lord of the…

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