Stuff!

--Dreamwidth backup finally completed yesterday. (Current import and crossposting status; see
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Hurrah, there's water ice on Mars!!!

..yeah, I know it was practically confirmed before, but yay nonetheless.

I have also just discovered Muse. Specifically, that one piano solo right in the middle of "Butterflies and Hurricanes". *grins*

Things to do today: break down my budget and do some estimations. Numbers blah yay.

It's raining.

Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett. Wow.

Discovery landed safely, even though one of the brake shield clips fell off. How come they can't stop having bits fall off our spacecraft!?? Love to see that TFOA report.

I accidentally have a book here that's due in a library in Maine. Oops.

Edit: Microbes that excrete petrol. What ( Read more... )

It seems like I've been studying for this test forever. On the plus side, I now have a good basic knowledge set about CPUs, LANs, processing components, data representation, and the like. Not enough to describe to anyone else, but enough to recognize the information when I need it ( Read more... )

Did you hear about the After-Hours Gene? THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. Actually, it doesn't -- the research subjects were mice, and all they really found out was that mice with this gene mutation have an odd circadian rhythm. But I expect that when the research broadens enough to involve humans, a whole bunch of us will be howling gleefully at the ( Read more... )

That squelching sound you hear is me walking out to the car in the beginning of New England's mud season. Why the blazes do they call this month March!?

Weird science: pi lovers uniteWhy are the online exams for this one particular class ALWAYS the weeks I'm going out of town without web access!? AND WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS FRIDAY-SUNDAY!? It's like ( Read more... )

..And that was Readercon. I am now exhausted, full of plot ideas, and definitely going back next year, if only to hear Carl Frederick talk about quantum physics again.

More current science news... what would you say if Stephen Hawking asked you how humanity is going to survive the next hundred years?

Well, HE'S ASKING. And the weirdest people are weighing in. Go to Yahoo!Answers right now and strike a blow for sanity!

(I'm somewhere on page 93.)

Fic late tomorrow, folks. I just cleaned out my notebook system.