Harry Potter has me hooked. It's pretty reprehensible. I need to let go...

• • •In other news, still examining brains (magnetically, not surgically) at the Columbia Medical Center. Trying to adjust our study so that it won't be cancelled (data so far is far from ideal). I really feel like I have a job. Particularly because this week I've been ( Read more... )

It's nice to be back in the city after our month off! Kim and I have been taking it slow, getting up late and going to bed late, reading, walking to Barnes and Noble and through the park. Went back to the lab today, and things are much the same. I'm actually rather looking forward to classes this fall! Rereading Harry Potter... Hm ( Read more... )

I wonder why Harry doesn't look in the mirror at the end of the first chapter of GoF... Is that reading too much into it ( Read more... )

This week is restaurant week in NYC, with $20 lunches and $30 dinners at some of the city's very best and most expensive restaurants. Today Kim and I went out and had lunch at a really nice place in Clinton (ok... Hell's Kitchen). Best salmon I've ever tasted. Kim looked absolutely gorgeous and was walking on air after buying a really cute summer ( Read more... )

It's (almost) official: Kim and I will be in california for all of July. No more excuses for not seeing me, guys. Heh, just kidding. I do hope I get a chance to hang out with whoever's around. Not that we're going to be hanging out for the whole month. If anyone knows of any person, entity, or institution who would be interested in paying either or ( Read more... )

( A lot of complaints about my day. )

A thin uniform rod has a length of .25 m and rotates in a circle on a frictionless tabletop. The axis of rotation is perpendicular ot the length of the rod at one of its ends. The rod has an angular velocity of 0.32 rad/s and a moment of inertia of 0.0011 kg/m^2. A bug standing on the axis decides to crawl out to the other end of the rod ( Read more... )

Well, all's dandy in the Big Apple, though the weather's gone a bit to pot. Very hot, very humid. They blame it on an offshore front. Kim's making pepper steak while I do physics HW. Very domestic here! We went to a Mets game yesterday, which was almost rained out. There was a thunderstorm, which cleared up an hour after the original start time. So ( Read more... )

( Kalevala! )

CC final thoroughly ass-kicked ( Read more... )