From the mouth of JCJ...

By now, most of you at OPA have heard the story but I feel that it needs to be immortalized on this blog.

This past week, Mike and I were down at North Creek inhaling the desicated fecal matter of many an animal. On Tuesday evening, Mike was talking about Chris' idea concerning the Northern Periphery Papers. I don't have direct quotes for most of the conversation, but it went something like this (Mike, feel free to revise):

Mike: Dr.J, Chris and I have been talking and we think that it would be a good idea to write some papers on the...(looks at Aaron) what's it called?

Aaron: The Northern Periphery

Mike: Right, The Northern Periphery

Dr. J: Well, (direct quote) "That's a good name for it-I think Kidder and those guys may have had it right"

Stunned silence (if there had been crickets present they would have been chirping)

Dr.J: Actually, when National Geographic interviewed me, they asked me about that idea...

(he never really told us what he told NG)(but he mentioned something about various professors at U of U who don't buy into it)

So there you have it, despite the broken nature of this conversation and my report of it...(it was sketchy enough when we had it, let alone 3 days later...I think that a significant bridge has been crossed. As Cal would say...."Whoa-o-o-o-o- boy!"