Futile Devices- Sufjan Stevens

New goal: UCSB's PhD program.
New backup: JET
New distraction (in the best way ever): Kenji

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Ready.

Crystalised- The Xx

This post is not an update.  This post is a guide for all you Geologists (or Geologists' assistants) out there wondering how in the heck to create a rarefaction in PAST, let this be a tutorial.

My boss asked me to make her some rarefactions for her beds in Australia, so I had to figure out how to do it.  Well, of course, there's no tutorials for PAST online, so I had to figure it out myself (with a little help from the results of a past rarefaction).

So if you have an excel sheet with multiple taxa, tally how many of each taxa you have.  

For instance, I have a bed with 14 Dickinsonia, 57 Wigwamia, 35 Tribrachidium, and 5 Aspidella.  Place these tally numbers in the A column.  The numbered rows in PAST each represent a new taxa.  After inputing your data, you should have a table that looks like 1-14, 2-57, 3-35, 4-5.  Highlight the A column and click "individual rarefaction" under "diversity".  You should get a new table listing three columns: sample size, taxa, and stdev (standard deviation).  The sample size should continue through the number of specimens  you have total (in the example case I've presented, it would be 111).  The taxa should total the number of different taxa you have (in the example situation, it's 4).  Click the "graph" button and it should graph it for you.  

Hope this helps! 

the chirp of birds in Spring and the whirrrrrr of my computer fan

I have a dream catcher above my bed, but I think it's a little mixed up.

I don't have bad dreams, I just have weird ones.

NHK

Looks like it was a day for considering the mortal coil...

ご愁傷のこととお察し致します。気おつけます。

Divenire- Ludovico Einaudi

I'm kind of amazed by the internet right now.  Our world has changed so drastically because of this one thing.  It's so immense. It's almost a little scary. I'm not even sure I have the words to express how much it freaks me out to think about it.

I can't figure this world out.  Progress doesn't seem all that great sometimes, but staying in one place seems like a bad idea too.  Maybe we should figure out how to move sideways.

And maybe just shuffle sideways, nice and slow.