January 2010
So my car is broken down in Upland, so I got that going for me.
December 2009
NYE
Leaving now to head to Joshua Tree NP to celebrate the coming of the new year/decade with old friends. She is going to be there, but I’m going to try and not let that stop me from having a good time.
And I’m leaving now because
Traffic has died down
It won’t be quite as scandalous to stop at In-and-Out for breakfast
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I say I’m going to do this every year. Maybe this is the year.
Honour for top science educator →
Won’t it be a wonderful day when something like this happens here in the US?
Breakfast of leftover Thai food and coffee… at noon… Gotta love forced furlough days.
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling →
They need to make one of these for other grammar nightmares…
“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever.”
– Night Watch, by Sergei Lukyanenko (translated by Andrew Bromfield)
I just finished this book and it was great. Modern day sorcerers, vampires, werewolves, etc. Like Twilight, but without all the suck. If you haven’t seen the movie version, you should experience that too!
Watching the V series. I realize I’m behind the times, but I have to say it’s missing a lot of Singer and Ironside.
Clothes Recycling
I have a rule, that I think I picked up on internet somewheres, that for every new piece of clothing I get I have to rid of an similar piece of clothing and give it to charity (Goodwill, Salvation Army, Out of the Closet, etc.)
This year because of Christmas acquisitions, two pairs of pants, a shirt and a belt.
Give it a try.
Why are power outlets so hard to find in airport terminals? Can they be used by ‘the terrorists’? Where am I supposed to plug in my blender?
Just installed internet at my mom’s place. The tubes have arrived and I’m ‘surfing’ the bits and bites.
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“That’s the main difference between science and religion in my view....”
– The Science of Unbelievable things
K.C. Cole is a friend of mine, and she always has good things to say about science and its place in culture.
“…there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown. This...”
– The Odds of Airborne Terror
OMG, do I love this blog…
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Way too much Christmas this year. Next year I’m going Jew.
I’m shopping… in the Chicago suburbs… the day before Christmas… “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
OK, fine James Cameron, you win. Everyone go see Avatar, in 3D if possible. Limp story is MORE than made up for by effects.
When you wash a drying rack, where do you dry it? Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Schroedinger!
Accessing the internet at the public library I went to as a kid cuz apparently my mom still lives in 1983 w/ no internet access at her home.
Pets Pollute More Than Cars, Scientists Say →
Not sure where I stand on this, but it’s something I’ve thought about before.
“Because, ultimately, you have to decide: Is science at least as important as...”
– Is Science As Important As Football?
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Grades are so close to being done that I can taste it… Tastes like… nom, nom… Victory…
un:
swinge:
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
This...
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Are futon mattresses made of the densest material...
Cuz I swear every time I move mine it takes a Herculean effort and it feels like that thing is close to its Schwarzschild radius.
Lusting after a woman via the pics on her Etsy shop is the new facebook stalking… I’ve heard…
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"Daddy needs his sauce."
This is what I’ve taken to saying when I want a drink. I’m not sure where, if anywhere, I picked it up, but I like it.
un:
I am eating cream cheese and Ritz and drinking some redwine. (said as one word…usually after the first glass.)
This is what we call ‘pinkies-up classy’
Who’s at the Climate Talks, and What Do They Seek? →
This is a great way to break things down: by emissions, GDP and people
burrito, burritare, burritavi, burritatum
The 4 principle parts of the Latin verb for “to roll inside a flat piece of dough”
Pruned: Soil Maps of Africa →
Another day of dealing with buckets of brains, hearts, and lungs. I just spent an hour cleaning said buckets. I love using my Ph.D.
Things people overheard me say while walking past...
“I’m perfectly fine with researchers making arbitrary decisions.” (1)
“I’m going to use the phrase ‘anal mouth’ at some point today.” (2)
(1) I was saying that sometimes you just have to make a decision during data collection and go with it and be consistent. They aren’t really ‘arbitrary’ decisions because they are based on...