Hey friends! I am posting to direct your attention to my new blog, where I will (at least primarily) be posting from now on. I'll still be here to read your entries and make comments, but you can find out what I'm up to here:

www.draconaei.com

Check it out! =)

Thank goodness for Google calculator. Without that, I would have never known that number of horns on a unicorn acre = 7.76750034 × 1024 US teaspoons per light year.

Too lazy to search yourself? Click here!

What did we do before Google?

Over the past few weeks, something has happened, and I feel myself growing in a way that I haven't felt before ( Read more... )

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In the past week or so, I have:

• auditioned for a dance position for Disney
• become Lab Manager for a week while Mike and the grad students are at a Plasma Physics conference
• spent a total of $54 to acquire four shirts, two pairs of pants, and six pairs of earrings (hooray, Plato's Closet!)
• been told by my sleep doctor that it's not narcolepsy, but that ( Read more... )

Taken directly from fivethirtyeight.com ( Read more... )

Yes, Sarah Palin has given birth to a baby with Down's Syndrome.

No, Sarah Palin does NOT know what it is like to put a special needs child through school.

No, Sarah Palin does NOT know what it is like to deal with non-understanding teachers, students, and parents of students who are disrespectful of special-needs children.

No, Sarah Palin does ( Read more... )

Life has been a garbled assortment of happenings lately... here is a sliver of an update for the curious ( Read more... )

The process of developing invisibility cloaks...

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...and the YouTube video to prove it! ;)

Reality and science fiction continue to become more indistinguishable.

As I walked through campus yesterday without a headscarf (on warm summer days I especially prefer to be bald,) a man approached me and asked "What the fuck did you DO to yourself?!"

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A pleasant counter-story, on the other hand: while eating in Panera earlier today, a little girl ran up to me, said "Hi pretty!!" and ran away.