Fun Friday Resources

You know that time you needed a CAT scan of Van Dam’s girdled lizard (Smaug vandami, I’m not even kidding)? No, not that time, the other time?

Here:

You thought I was kidding.

For this and other delights, head over to the Florida Museum’s oVERT Collection. Say hi to the Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo for me.

Back when I was an important member of society, i.e., working a full-time job, I learned to create a “brag document” as a kind of back-up for my performance review, just in case my superiors hadn’t been paying attention. (I was a media specialist — they were not paying attention. One principal actually thought that if I were not personally reshelving All The Books — instead of teaching research skills, for example — I was incompetent.)

Even if you work in a paradise, keeping track of your accomplishments is not a bad idea, and this article gives you absolutely everything you need to implement the practice in your own life. It’s like a more serious version of those “three good things” posts.

Since Google has turned to the dark side of AI, its search results are a bit sus, as the yutes say. (Personally, I use DuckDuckGo to search.) If you want to untangle your Google searches, try searchtweaks.com. They have multiple ways to direct your search term though Google’s database. I have not tried all of them, but the ones I did try worked. I even found places I’d been published or written about that I didn’t know existed!

Have fun!