And now for something completely similar

Well, I'm now about a month into my ZOO 498 project, and things are going as slowly as ever. Well, not really. I got through Funk and Wagner (1998) and I've finished converting the all of the phylogenies into taxon-area cladograms. I still want to include some of the other phylogenies I've dredged up on Web of Science. Am I really that insane for actually, purposefully, making *more* work for myself?

So now I have to get on the ball and start combining these suckers. Ouch. Some of the venn diagram conversions look like the worst nightmate of a ZOO 362 student on acid. Professor Brooks says that Maggie should be finished the all-mighty program...er...soon(tm). I don't mind doing it all by hand really -- just that I still feel somewhat clueless as to how I'm going to fit this mess all together. And then I have to interpret it.

And speaking of Web of Science, I have to say THANK YOU to the people who decided to upgrade WoS. I hate, just hate, just HATE how for three years I had to put up with searching for stuff on WoS only to find that ~90% of the hits I got were to journals that either weren't carried by U of T or were linked to articles that weren't available to U of T and therefore would make me have to pay some exorbitant fee to get to them. $45 for an article?! are you Nuts!? I had to suffer through Cambridge Scientific's Biological Sciences index, which still doesn't work on Safari and still has downright awful JavaScript coding. I tell you, the people who coded that site deserve to be condemned to running Windows ME on Pentium 166 boxes for the rest of their lives. If it weren't for JSTOR, I would have gone totally insane.