He's got a lot of reasons - he's married to a sexy, intelligent woman, he just nominated an actual scientist to head the Department of Energy, he might be able to keep his Blackberry once he's president, he's going to be in charge of all the nukes soon (which Elliott assures me is a geek wet dream), but there's one reason that takes the cake:

He's ( Read more... )

SuP?!

-Comic-Con happened. It was epic and expensive and I'll write more below
-4 days til we peace out of California
-20 days until the knot gets tied
-38 days until we peace out of the United States
-72-ish days until I start school. The math is getting fuzzy, so I'll stop there.

So yes. What else could I be doing right now but drinking a beer, ( Read more... )

Msg: Have never seen so many tall men w ponytails & black tees. Elliott is invisible ( Read more... )

 I spent a naughty amount of time today reading through FreakAngels, Warren Ellis' new free webcomic. It probably has the highest production values of any webcomic I read (natch) and the storyline is good so far. There's 18 episodes up. In a few weeks they'll also be selling this badass tanktop. Hopefully they'll be at Comic-Con cuz I wantsssss the ( Read more... )

That being said, I don't recommend clicking on this link unless you are a hopeless D&D nerd. Or you like ponies.

I've been monitoring a lot lately, watching immense belly scrapers shoot past me, and inhaling air, dust, and diesel fuel in equal parts.

Monitoring (aka watch and wait) is hardly the most exciting job an archaeologist can have. However, my recent monitoring has been much improved because it has been in situations where I've gotten to be directing ( Read more... )