Today was pubwar, a celebration of the 33rd birthday of the publab (our local pharmy happy hour crew) godfather. The celebration took the form of a 22-member paintball expedition and all of the expected carnage ( Read more... )

Alright, here's what I'm trying to figure out ( Read more... )

So every Friday night, we denizens of the Chavkin, Phillips, and Stella labs (along with a few other friends & associates) get together for PubLab and drink ourselves silly. Last weekend, we went slightly more epic, as we held Surflab, a three day backpacking trip to the second beach La Push in the NW corner of the peninsula ( Read more... )

"Continuous, rapid, cocaine self-administration also occurs in animal experiments in which unlimited access to intravenous cocaine is provided. The animals die within 14 days."

Frank H. Gawin, "Cocaine addiction: psychology and neurophysiology." Science, vol. 251, 29 March 1991

Four papers read in the last two days.

This seems like it should be simple. I want to be able to make a worksheet full of data and charts showing assorted data summaries. I want to be able to cut copy and paste that into a new worksheet, and plug in a new day's batch of data. (So far, no problem). I would then love to be able to click a button that updates all of the graphs on the ( Read more... )

Thing #1: As part of a general new nose-reapplied-to-the-grindstone commitment I'm making to myself, I've decided to set myself a goal of reading at least one paper or relevant textbook chapter a day. To assist myself in following through on this task, I've decided to also try and make myself post little blurbs on each of them--synopses, notes, & ( Read more... )

NOTE: Assume all days also include "unpacking," "cleaning up," "organizing/re-organizing," & "playing Burnout 3"

SUNDAY: Gaming, 1st day of Chase's D&D campaign
MONDAY: Sick, sat around, read The Gods Themselves, broke iphone further
TUESDAY: Surgery ended prematurely; had iphone repaired; purchased and read The Boys vol. 4 & Thor Visionaries: ( Read more... )

I am looking for rechargeable batteries, and am looking for recommendations from someone who knows more than I do ( Read more... )

So I was updating my Faculty of 1000 stored searches, when it occurred to me that the total was 11 ( Read more... )