A capella flash mobs are awesome. A friend linked to this one ("Heathrow T5") last week, and I've kept it open in a tab since then. About 80 seconds in is my favourite part, an opera singer named George Ikediashi covering "I am a Passenger" by Iggy Pop. I found this "making of" video which feels like it captures the exuberance of it, more than ( Read more... )

Our Nova Scotia vacation was a success. We put 1,600 km on the rental car. [1 ( Read more... )

The weekend was fun. Conveniently, the chest-cold I've acquired didn't show itself until last night late- well *after* the Easter dinner out with melted_snowball and his colleagues. But last night I went to bed with a tight chest and woke up at 5ish this morning feeling pretty icky. Today was blah, but manageable ( Read more... )

I was charging my way through sorting a big pile of papers into smaller piles, but at some point, the meaning for the two biggest piles got switched. This is bugging me more than I think it should ( Read more... )

Natural selection is so cool. The Dec. 24 issue of the Economist has a neat article about humans' shift from hunting to agriculture; how it was in a sense a desperation move as they hunted the big game to extinction. Such as the rhinoceroses in France. 30,000 years ago. That's... amazingly recent. When they ran out of rhinos, they went on to ( Read more... )

Egg Pants.

( EGG PANTS! )

Desperate researcher makes microfluidic computer chips with shrinky-dinks. Awesome.

d. and I just went to Scoop DeVille near Rittenhouse Square. I asked for coffee and moose-tracks with mint oreo cookie chunks. They asked if I wanted it blended. I said yes. It is the BBEST ( Read more... )

Life is pretty darn fabulous right now. It's not been steady-state fabulous, but that would be boring. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's... perhaps unless that person happened to be me with better hair ( Read more... )

A finish of my weekend wrapup:

Sunday was Games Day. After lunch, chezmax and the_infamous_j came over. With dr_tectonic, saintpookie, and kung_fu_monkey, we played "Unspeakable Words", a Lovecraft-inspired game where you try to spell sufficiently angular words (real words) before you go insane. Yup. The best part was the optional rule that if you were one point from insanity, you could play any ( Read more... )