January 2011
Immune Responses →
How many beers before they take off their shirt?... →
pterodactyls:
Hypothetically alive Presidents and not their dusty corpses, leisurely Saturday afternoon with nowhere else to be, based on no real facts whatsoever, standard 12oz beer cans.
Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase 1803: A polymath and scholar with well-documented bouts of loneliness, so basically a…
I find James K. Polk to be the most underrated of the presidents. As...
Gorilla's Upright Walk in the Park →
Journal of Universal Rejection →
It seems that most of my journal submissions have made their way to the editorial desk of this fine publication…
New Years Resolution Steps to Success
Make resolution to post on tumblr/twitter more
Get so busy teaching 4 classes that you barely have time to breathe
…..?
Profit.
Bridger Basin Project →
Why doesn't my twitter feed show up here any...
grrr…..
Remembering Fermilab’s Tevatron Particle... →
This is so sad. I grew up near Fermilab, and it played a big part in getting me excited about science. I actually started in college as a physics major, thinking I would go work there (then I got a D in Differential Equations, so physics went out the window as a major).
It’s an amazing place. A great example of “Big Science”
Create message links with Mail proxy icons →
OMG… why did I never know this…?
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First Rule of Birdwatching
lf you bring your binoculars you won’t see anything. If you bring them, all you’ll see if house sparrows and ravens.
pterodactyls asked: Yes! Taylor and I are just visiting for the weekend, though.
pterodactyls asked: Yes! Taylor and I are just visiting for the weekend, though.
The Chicago Blizzard of 1979 →
I remember this blizzard. My dad had to dig us out of the front door. He was blind by this point, so my mom pointed him in the right direction to dig us out, and help out our neighbor.
Theme of recent nights.
The Push Stars -...
I watched Episode 1: Phantom Menace today...
… for the first time through in a while (we were playing Settlers during it, so I didn’t give it 100% attention)
Man is it bad. Like really bad. And I mean not, “I saw Star Wars in the theaters in 1977, and this is killing my childhood bad, so I’m being overly critical”-bad. (Although that is true.)
It’s inherently bad. There’s no tension. The scenes...
Thieves and Liars
Textbook publisher: You should use our new online software, so you can give quizzes to students online with all kinds of neat interactive questions. Me: I don’t know. I already give online quizzes in my course management software, and failing that, I give paper quizzes in lab. Also, I hate to lock kids into the latest versions of books because you put out too many new editions and they...
If I had balls I would dip them in pudding →
I know what I’m doing tonite…
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vale.: Evolucionismo →
tengo-ritmo:
Yesterday, in my Anthropology of Latin American Societies class (which, by the way, is a social sciences class), the professor gave the class a brief overview of the theory of evolution. My favorite! He spoke of Erasmus and Charles Darwin, the theories of Lamarck and Lyell and how they…
This is one of my former evolution students. Read her story about how ridiculous our...
Drinking Beer Alone is the name of my new band
…or was it the name of my autobiography?
… or was it my porn name…?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I MAY HAVE MADE MY COFFEE A BIT STRONG TODAY!!!
(which may be a good thing, considering I have to give 6hrs of lectures today…)
Dive Into HTML5 →
Running on Empty? How to Recognize When You're on... →
I a long way down this road…
your /= you're
That is all
(cliche, I know, but it was bugging me today)
Is there a way to tell if bleu cheese has gone bad? Cuz, ya know, it already smells like feet.
“If the country’s most distinguished nuclear scientists told you, clearly and...”
– The Bill Daley Problem « The Baseline Scenario
Going snowshoeing today. I’ve always said, we enjoy snow properly in LA - we drive to it, play in it, and come home. WE DON’T LIVE IN IT!
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These are a few of my favorite things...
Dinner tonite:
red quinoa
steamed broccoli
sauteed mushrooms, onion, garlic
All thrown in a bowl together like some kind of Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, farmers’ market orgy…
Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection... →
I was once asked, if I could have one person killed in the world with no consequences to me, who would it be. I instantly blurted out “Anton Scalia!” They then asked my second choice - “Clarence Thomas!”