Wow. I think I might actually go to bed before eleven tonight. This weekend was all kinds of fun but also crazy busy. In a good way.

Friday I had date number two with David. We went to this. It was pretty awesome. I didn't think I'd dislike it (weee fun use of negatives) but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I DID like it. So, hurray! Then we ( Read more... )

Thanks to firesion for finding this gem. I'm sooo showing this to my students.

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Bwahahahaha.

My new fandom, let me show you it.

Dr Horrible's Sing-a-long BlogFrom Joss Whedon: "Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic. A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few ( Read more... )

The only thing better than watching The Big Bang Theory is watching it over lunch with a crowd of physicists. Good times. If you haven't caught this show yet, you really, really need to. I HIGHLY recommend it. Especially if you belong to the nerd/geek set.

As a point of interest, the entire first season can be found here for download. Not that I ( Read more... )

Thanks to sardonicsmiley, I've become totally hooked on Wordle. There are a few word-clouds of my own behind the cut.

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What I love about science? The big, giant words. Not just any big giant words, mind you; the big, giant words that mean exactly the same thing as the tiny, little ones common to mere mortals. For instance, why say "charged by rubbing" when you can say "tribolectricaly charged"? So when you rub a balloon on your head? Socks on the floor? ( Read more... )

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I highly recommend the movie. Probably the best comic book movie ever made. And you really, REALLY need to stay through the credits ( Read more... )

This is from a concept album put out by the Trans Siberian Orchestra. More on the album over on wikipedia. The "What is Eternal" track had me completely floored.

Track combined with a really good SGA fanvid on you tube.

Just the track loaded on my boxtr account ( Read more... )

My colleagues are very awesome people. After the administration COMPLETELY screwed me over for next year, they (my colleagues) bought me chocolate. Dark chocolate. It didn't make everything better but it reminded me why I'm still there. After the talk I'd had with the admin I was giving serious thought to going back to school and taking another ( Read more... )