• The Primate Diaries by Eric Michael Johnson

    Perspectives on science, politics and history from a primate in the human zoo.

    • Warning! Baby Animal Pictures

      Friday, 08 May 2009 - 22:31 UTC

      Everyone say it together now, “Awwwwwwwwww”, now again together, “Ohhhhhhhhh”. Perhaps it’s because I’m an expectant father, but come on. Even baby aye-ayes are precious (though I might draw the line at parasitic wasps).

      Happy Friday everybody.

      Last updated: Friday, 08 May 2009 - 22:31 UTC

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        • Date:
          Friday, 08 May 2009 - 22:42 UTC
          Cath Ennis said:

          The aye-aye is totally doing the \0/

        • Date:
          Friday, 08 May 2009 - 22:54 UTC
          Eric Michael Johnson said:

          @Cath: OK, now I’m confessing my emoticon illiteracy. Just what does \0/ represent? All I can get is an olive in a martini glass (shaken not stirred, of course).

        • Date:
          Friday, 08 May 2009 - 22:57 UTC
          Cath Ennis said:

          It represents celebratory joy, as in w00t w00t

          Also the beginning of the dance moves to YMCA:

          \0/ 0 0< /0\

          I don’t know where it came from originally, but I first saw it in posts/comments by Eva Amsen and Richard Grant

        • Date:
          Friday, 08 May 2009 - 22:57 UTC
          Cath Ennis said:

          the second one was supposed to be ^ 0 ^, without the spaces

        • Date:
          Friday, 08 May 2009 - 23:04 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Just sayin’.


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