Back from the Caribbean
I'm back from vacation. I had a lot of fun, traveling across the Caribbean to Belize; Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico, and Grand Cayman.
The best part was when I was shown how to catch an adult female stingray (6 feet across!) with my bare hands. So scary but so fun.
The only downside? The fact that right now, my luggage is somewhere else, probably still stuck in Charlotte, NC. I had a connection that left from there (from Miami, where I had been trapped all day, woefully behind my scheduled flight times due to some problem US Air had with their new reservation system) and my luggage didn't come with.
But anyway, it was still a great trip. I finally finished Neal Stephenson's Confusion and the sequel to Wicked, Son of a Witch and I made some good headway on Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene. What's interesting to note is that in the thirty years between when the book was first published and today, all the "revolutionary" ideas of the book became a natural part of the biochemistry and molecular biology education so I'm familiar with just about all the idea he put forth in the book. Dawkin's mentality towards religion is also clearly evident in that first book, even though he wouldn't tackle religion for a long time afterwards.
But anyway, I'm back! And very relaxed (although I want my stuff).
The best part was when I was shown how to catch an adult female stingray (6 feet across!) with my bare hands. So scary but so fun.
The only downside? The fact that right now, my luggage is somewhere else, probably still stuck in Charlotte, NC. I had a connection that left from there (from Miami, where I had been trapped all day, woefully behind my scheduled flight times due to some problem US Air had with their new reservation system) and my luggage didn't come with.
But anyway, it was still a great trip. I finally finished Neal Stephenson's Confusion and the sequel to Wicked, Son of a Witch and I made some good headway on Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene. What's interesting to note is that in the thirty years between when the book was first published and today, all the "revolutionary" ideas of the book became a natural part of the biochemistry and molecular biology education so I'm familiar with just about all the idea he put forth in the book. Dawkin's mentality towards religion is also clearly evident in that first book, even though he wouldn't tackle religion for a long time afterwards.
But anyway, I'm back! And very relaxed (although I want my stuff).