And a quick hello to new reader Kelly, who will be shortly perusing this site.

Yes, the readership is that small that I can greet them individually. It’s like a PBS pledge drive, but without the annoying beggary.

That starts next week.

Half-remembered quote of the day: “they go brain dead for a few months, and then they have little froggy thoughts again.”

That’s Ken Storey, a researcher at Carleton who studies tree frogs; they have the remarkable ability to survive being frozen solid.