https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/new-firefly-series-no-guarantees-yet/
Firefly cartoon coming? Seems like it.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Jasper, Canada retired guy has some good points
https://jasper.ca/2026/03/01/welcome/
https://jasper.ca/2026/03/01/sights-must-see-spots/
"Dark Sky Perfection
Did you know Jasper is the second largest Dark Sky Preserve on Earth? When night falls, the universe puts on a show. Stars don't just twinkle here—they blaze across ink-black skies, unobscured by city lights."Iconic Waters
- Maligne Lake: Home to the legendary Spirit Island—one of the most photographed spots on the planet, and for good reason
- Athabasca Falls: Where glacier-fed water thunders through quartz-carved canyons
- Medicine Lake: A geological mystery where the lake disappears each fall, draining through underground caves
The Journey Itself
The Icefields Parkway—stretching 230 kilometers between Jasper and Lake Louise—is consistently ranked among the world's most spectacular drives. Every turn reveals another postcard.
Monday, March 16, 2026
10 unknown dinosaurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpfPasxw4iY&t=1195s
Good stuff all around.
Plus Stegouros, like these lists. https://maxs-blogo-saurus.com/category/weird-dinosaurs/
Super spikey like Anguiris, is Spicomellus-
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/spicomellus-afer-14173.html
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Origins of light bounce puzzle, Scooby Doo?
The Scooby-Doo show.
S01:e02 - the Fiesta Host is an Aztec Ghost.
Time 18:00, they bounce moonlight off brass plates(?) to a symbol on a wall in a S. American style pyramid.
This was 1976 I think, and so before any Indiana Jones or likely any D&D modules used that trope. I wonder if some old book had the idea (I guess LotR has that secret entrance to Moria thing yeah, but no actual bouncing of light), but likely this Scooby episode influenced a bazillion other folks in modern times.
Pretty sure it shows up in Zelda games, lotsa D&D, Raiders of the Lost Ark, other movies, etc.
Described here https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fiesta_Host_is_an_Aztec_Ghost
Quote
Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby discover a vacuum cleaner that blows out a smoke screen. When the smoke clears, the Stone Monster appears and chases them until they meet up with Fred, Daphne, and Velma. Suddenly, Katazuma arrives and locks our heroes in a room. Velma deciphers the hieroglyphics, discovering that the room is dedicated to the moon goddess. She learns that when moonlight shines on a specific inscription, a secret passage will be revealed. Using an array of reflectors, they guide the moonlight to the inscription, and a secret passageway is opened.
Thx to https://www.youtube.com/shorts/45AEcQxsDnI
Canada dinosaur stuff ; hotel
My favorite itinerary so far: https://familytravelsusa.com/glacier-to-banff-road-trip/
- Has good info on
- when get shuttle bus tickets or not
- Logan pass parking 3 hr limit for 2026 (get shuttle if want to stay longer, for us = Nah.)
HOTELS:
- Hotel - Mini Golden in west of Glacier. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g45222-d651472-Reviews-Mini_Golden_Inns_Motel-Hungry_Horse_Montana.html#review_1022840023
- Prince of Wales hotel, Mimi did. 2 Person per room tho, eh? $300ish.
- Many Glaciers has horseback rides to a lake. (There are other horseback places).
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The calm dude- also has hoodoos in Canada and the France places
- Fossils, dino--Dinosaur Provincial Park – Badlands Trail & Fossil Hunters: ytube
- Hoodoos near dino area, ~fossils -- ytube.
- Dinosaur Museum ytube. Royal Tyrrel Museum. In Canada. One of biggest in the world. I think 130 dino fossils.
- Jasper stuff - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=biyUij037b4&t=325s.
HOTELS SOLD OUT:
- Usa side swiftcuurent motor inn time 12:00 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBeGd6nNLLE&t=730s
Glacier park 10 to do
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3fXL5TVkAVE&t=600s
The “we re in the rockies” couple, also say go July Aug and just deal w crowds.
Info, F r e e stuff https://wereintherockies.com/glacier-national-park-packages/
Dirtinmyshoes says if June, last week for 50/50 chance GTT Sun road open all way. Stay on East side bcuz more to do in June. See :
https://www.dirtinmyshoes.com/the-best-time-to-visit-glacier-national-park/
Friday, March 13, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
Older school He-man and them- the mini comics, yeahhhhh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0gJv6QdUfM&t=285s
Much better. More realistic proportions (ok that just the beginning… then it got out of hand and back to crazy arms bigger than legs stuff). Bad guys are more serious and gritty. But why would they put a mustache on man-at-arms.
Here's some of the real original comics with man-at-arms hiding his face (no sign of a mustache), like I remember. Update: after looking further into it, they do eventually switch to the cartoon version of He-man, sadly the gritty version only lasted a short while:
https://www.zipcomic.com/he-man-and-the-masters-of-the-universe-minicomic-collection-issue-tpb-1
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Dinosaurs, old art ; btw Pelagornis
Megalosaurus
Old 1800s style
https://pholder.com/megalosaurus
So this Megalosaurus old statue (plus 2 iguanadons, plus WAY more) is in London, Crystal Palace park/gardens.
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Iguanadon at Crystal Gardens, London.
Both Iguanadon statues.
Hylaeosaurus is a type of ankylosaurian dino.
On Megalosaurus: https://cpdinosaurs.org/visit/statue-details/megalosaurus and Iguanadon https://cpdinosaurs.org/visit/statue-details/iguanodon quotes:
Megalosaurus has the honour of being the first dinosaur to be described in a scientific way (by William Buckland in 1824), although the term ‘dinosaur’ was not coined by the anatomist Richard Owen for another 18 years. Its ‘fearful’ teeth were compared to a collection of knives, swords and saws.
At the time of the model’s construction the available fossil material was a jaw bone and teeth, a few vertebrae, pelvic bones and some hindlimb material. Today M. bucklandi is regarded as the only species of Megalosaurus and, though still incompletely known, is understood as a stocky, 6-7 m long predatory species. This is ultimately mid-sized for a theropod dinosaur, but large for a Middle Jurassic species.
... Many of the key features remain in modern reconstructions from the Crystal Palace model, including its large stature, long tail and general head shape. In the image below, gone is the large shoulder hump and of course it is now depicted as bipedal (standing on two legs) rather than a quadruped (standing on four legs) with short forelimbs with a robust, three-fingered hand. Interestingly, its exact proportions remain unknown.
... The sculptor, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, did a good job of distinguishing Megalosaurus from the other plant-eating dinosaurs in terms of its anatomy and it bears several hallmarks of predatory species that reflect close observation of living animals. The limbs, for instance, are not held as pillars as in the Iguanodon, but are have flexed knees, elbows, wrists and ankles, as well as bulging musculature. This pose suggests a motion and energy lacking in the pillar-like limbs of the Iguanodon, and recalls the limbs of rhinos - relatively fast, sprightly giants - more than the columnar-limbs of slower paced elephants.
Iguanadon: Lived: Most Iguanodon fossils have been found in southern England but they are also known from mainland Europe. Related, similar species have been found globally.
Dinner in the Iguanadon Model, 1853, Crystal Palace. profjoecain.net
More Crystal Palace goodness:
- https://sketchfab.com/historicengland/collections/crystal-palace-dinosaurs-5cc3ed7d0d2e48c0a3edb0f656a970bf
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66808224
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This mini cgi cartoon movies has from 1825 to 2025, cool, but missed the most recent correction of “yeah therapods almost certainly didn’t have lips” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH57rtnKCEM&t=345s
The awesome funny “shut up about shrink wrapping extra skinny dinos” … as in, Spinosaurus didn’t have a hump,definitely had a sail. No attachment points for a hump so shut up with this misinformation BS. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lJY_8pGU5cc
- Lizards with sails NOW (apparently not in skeleton though)
- Are they all water lizards?? I bet so. Water cold. Sail helps heat up. Makes sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrosaurus
- Sulawesi black sailfins
- Indonesian giant sailfin dragons
- Soa-soamwater lizards
- Balubids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_sailfin_lizard
- Jackson’s chameleons
- Draco lizard
Btw, giant bird with pseudo teeth https://alchetron.com/Pelagornis
- 20 ft wingspan?!
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