Mark returned home from his triumphant destruction of Tad Crass’s AI data center (and presumably the adjacent office building), while the wild horses issue trotted down the road. With visions of showing off assignment photos to the family that night, his reverie was interrupted when Rusty arrived home from school, fuming like an old animated cartoon tugboat.
Rusty tried to get his Dad involved in his e-waste science project to help take revenge against Robbie for hoodwinking him out of his original topic. Mark agreed to help, but gave Rusty the mixed message that revenge is not a proper path to follow, though throwing “two fists o’ justice” is just fine. Make of that what you will; it might help explain why kids sometimes don’t understand their parents. I’m not sure I understand the difference, either. But I’m also a blockheaded dad.
One final observation: Mark’s face goes through a series of various images and/or shapes during the week, all of which are otherwise flat with no attempt at modeling volume or shadow. Here are some examples.
Compare them with the images of Mark, below, where his image is generally more developed and modeled, using color for volume and highlights in skin and hair. I’ve got no explanation.
In public school I didn’t pay much attention in biology, except for what I needed to pass the class. That’s nothing to brag about. We certainly didn’t get into anything nearly as detailed as this. It was more like hearing about Mendel’s peas, breeding fruit flies, and dissecting frogs. That was decades ago. Possibly taught by one of Mendel’s ancestors (continued below if there is any intervening ad).
I don’t think much was said about evolution except in the most general sense. So this was an interesting topic for me. Most of the records I researched naturally employ contemporary scientific terminology that makes me wish I had taken more biology classes in college. Anyway, they state that, based on fossils, the miacid was superficially similar to modern martens and civets. End.
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