I have spent a lot of time complaining at great length about cold fingers when I ride my bike in winter around here, and my failure to find a warm enough solution.

When I last ranted about it, danceboy stepped in with perfect timing and offered to send me an old pair of bigger gloves so I could try them with liners, going on the tentative theory that the ( Read more... )

Some random updates ( Read more... )

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. " -- James Nicoll
Being in the same city as several hospitals and ( Read more... )

A pane of tempered glass shatters in really cool and fascinating ways. I really wish I had had a convenient video camera to get the cool dancing glass effects.

Reminder to self: do NOT attempt future similar experiments in the house.

I guess my kitchen floor needed a really good cleaning anyways.

This is more or less a topic of discussion I've had with various people over the last while. It's interesting to me to do casual studies on how my body works, and what signals mean when I get them. Mmm, science.

So, since I was eating lunch, I made up a ( poll about eating )

This morning, I got vaccinated against that darned persistent illness-causing seasonal virus.
Even better, I did it (duhn duhn duhhhhn) ... for SCIENCE!
And even better, I'm getting paid for it!

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A few weeks ago, I decided to take part in the Herpevac Trial for Women, a clinical trial that is testing a vaccine for genital herpes in women. I passed the initial testing and got my first set of shots last week ( Read more... )