Stochasticactus

recovery, wilderness, and other adventures

  • Meaning to write

    Almost every morning, I say to myself, self….you would benefit from journaling on a daily basis, and you’re paying for web hosting for exactly that purpose. Obviously, I never create a post, and here this not-so-cheap site sits, vacant. Maybe today is the day. Below, a nice photo of a little-known cactus, Echinomastus hispidus, supposedly…

  • The Road to Heck

    The Road to Heck

    I’ve been “meaning to” post here more often but fuck if I ever have the time, or when I do have the time, I lack the mental stamina. This post is going to be super short. I don’t answer messages when I’m just about ready to fall over, and sharing memes takes almost no effort,…

  • Lost in technology

    Lost in technology

    Ridiculous week of working in R, in RevBayes, and learning some new or at least newish modeling techniques in order to put together an integral projection model, which is way of understanding the vital rates of a population (growth, survival, reproduction) and making predictions about the future. Very dense statistical week. I feel like I’ve…

  • Projects galore

    I woke up at about 5 this morning thinking about all the irons I have in the fire, some of which I get paid for and some of which I am doing because I want to. There’s an old project exploring the evolutionary relationships and biogeography of a group of Caribbean cacti, a new project…

  • Launching new things

    Launching new things

    Well, the old Word Press blog, stochasticactus, had its hosting suspended due to some kind of spam attack and so on. I didn’t really miss it for a long time, mostly because I’ve been so busy. But recently I’ve been wanting to write more of a journal type thing, and decided to fire up “stochasticactus…

Random Photos that I totally didn’t take

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About the blogger

Sober 21 years. Plant evolutionary biologist, phytogeographer, and ecologist. A “non-traditional” Ph.D. student, with the degree earned at age 58.

This blog is basically a personal journal kind of thing.

Anonymous guy who looks nothing like that guy

Scientist, editor, writer, and musician.