The problem with trying to figure out ways of attending conferences, such as the 7th triennial mosasaur conf. or SECAD 2024, comes down to spending money to attend conferences that I can put into research. And if it's a choice between the two, reserach wins.

My Uncle Alfred Satterfield was among the 160k+ who went ashore at Omaha Beach this day in 1944, twenty years before my own birth, men whose sacrifices went a long way towards defeating fascism in Europe.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” ~ Edward R. Murrow

“There are too many of us....billions of us & that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come & violate you. Strangers come & cut your heart out. Strangers come & take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451