I wish I had gotten a snap of the larger more hysterically explicit1 poster in the same series, but I notice they disappeared from the metro walls soon after they came out, leaving only this come-on to football fans:


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I rode in on the Metro with a bunch of what I think were brownies, and they were so cute and funny. The troop leader told the girls to "stop bothering the lady" and I had to admit that not only did they not bother me, talking with them was the highlight of my day ( Read more... )

I feel marvelous! I just ran through a true Washingtonian thunderstorm - gutters overflowing, shoes cupping miniature lakes, shirt completely soaked, hair just-out-of-the-shower wet, and my socks are wrung out and drying on my desk fan ( Read more... )

Whenever I want to hate this job.

Lunchtime lecture on dark matter.

What to look up: Linde. also: Fermi+positron+balloon

I stopped him afterwards (there was a crowd at the podium afterwards) to ask what the million-cubic-meter balloon had detected that suggested dark matter existed and got this:
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That lime I bought in 2007 is still on my desk. It is now devoid of green, all autumnal orangish-brownish-beige.


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I was missing my desk so much that I post this picture of part of the view. Yes, I am well hydrated.


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They are calling for 1 to 2 feet starting tomorrow morning at 10 am. I just don't want to come to work - I wanna go play in the snow!

But I have a demo to give. We'll see what happens. Maybe they will preemptively close down the government tomorrow morning to keep 10 bajillin idiots off the roads!

My sister and brother sent me a belated b-day present of Blackstone Audio Books versions of Variable Star and Very Bad Deaths written and read by Spider Robinson ( Read more... )

Starting at 9 tonight, the forecast for the DC metro area is 1 to 2 feet of snow. That's 30 to 60 centimeters, for our Canadian listeners.

I think I shall leave work right now.

To all you "Stop the School of the Americas" protestors this morning ( Read more... )