I'm putting the finishing touches on pulled venison (with some moose filler) for my now ex-grad student's potluck. It's tasty, and the last thing I need to do this week before I can zone. I've got a few minutes, so I looked at movie reviews. You know, for the holiday weekend. I found this gem:



DannyKilpatrick writes:
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Check it out here. So really, when we blog, we're improving our mental health. Unless we're blogging because we're already crazy. ;)

In The Know: Our Troops In Iraq

We've all heard the song 'I'm my own grandfather.' This theme has presented itself a few times, such as "All You Zombies-" by R.A. Heinlein; the writers of Futurama, over qualified for their jobs, wrote an episode where a time traveller accidentally slept with his own grandmother (Thus becoming his own grandfather ( Read more... )

A paper was 'published on PLoS today, talking about one of the craziest looking dinosaurs I've seen in a long time. It was allegedly extremely adapted to ground grazing, like some ultra-specialized dinosaur cow (Poor example, as its being a ruminant is highly unlikely, for obvious reasons. This is also interesting for other reasons that aren't ( Read more... )

If I'm posting twice, it's because I have something in the autoclave, and I can't start my next step until it finishes. I was flipping through a PI's website, looking for a technique, when I found a wonderful example of why people on the fringes of science tend to ignore the centre part of it: The centre tends to foo-foo on their nutzo ideas ( Read more... )

Well, I have a brief lull before my seminar of the day, and I think I'll fill it by informing the world some decisions I've made, recently ( Read more... )

My complaint of the day: Graphs of very narrow effects (the lines often overlapping) that use three colours: grey, more different grey, and pretty much the same grey. And the paper refers to the graph multiple times. So, depending if I can tell my shades of grey apart, there is an effect. Or, actually, might not be. Or, the effect is opposite of ( Read more... )

The water in my shower
is at .5 degrees.
So as I walk, forgive me
if I'm stinking up the breeze.

Today is Pi day. For lunch, I brought pie. The pie leaked in my bag, however. :(
Happy pi day!