Things I want to do before I die, time, health and funds permitting:

• Take a long road trip through the American west with ( Read more... )

The Acts of Whimsy cancer fundraiser is still live. It has made goal, but additional support is always welcome, especially given my new complications. Please check it out if you have not done so yet.

The Lakeside Kickstarter has expanded its stretch goals to include documenting the science around my genomic testing by traveling to the testing lab ( Read more... )

The Acts of Whimsy cancer fundraiser is still live. It has made goal, but additional support is always welcome, especially given my new complications. Please check it out if you have not done so yet.

The Lakeside Kickstarter has expanded its stretch goals to include documenting the science around my genomic testing by traveling to the testing lab ( Read more... )

The Lakeside Kickstarter has begun - The complications in my cancer have created complications in the filming process. The producer needs to extend the budget a little further.

imdb with the listing for Lakeside - Still being built, but there's a movie poster there, and acting credits for me and ( Read more... )

There She Blows! 'Tis the Contract for Moby Dick! - Huh. Cool.

Colon Cancer: Aspirin May Improve Survival in Some - Not sure if I'm in this pool or not.

The Snail Wrangler - Wow. Who knew the intricacies of escargot? (Via my Dad.)

MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more efficient than the real thing - This is seriously cool. (From Lisa Costello ( Read more... )

The Feathered Edge - A book which needs some love. Go check it out. ( Read more... )

Patent No. 5,443,036: Method of Exercising a Cat

Broken Letters: A Typogeography of Europe - Fascinating reading if you're either a typeface geek or a history geek.

Which profession drinks the most coffee?

Roundhouse Foundations - Mmm. Trains.

Video urges Singapore couples to make babies - like, now - (Thanks to David Goldman.)

Neanderthals ( Read more... )

Very strange dream last night. I was driving back to Portland from somewhere in the old, old Genre car - the gray Chrysler sedan that IRL I sold about four years ago. But I wasn't really in Oregon, as the physical geography was more like the trip from San Antonio to Austin. There were a lot of construction projects tearing up abandoned railway ( Read more... )

The last week or so has been colored by some real challenges on the personal and professional front. Nothing I'm prepared to discuss yet, largely for reasons of others' confidentiality, but also not critical (or medical). Just disappointing and, well, challenging. And annoyingly simultaneous, as sometimes happens in life ( Read more... )

Easter Island statues had bodies - Did no one ever think to look?

CSR project aims to create a high-speed, carbon-neutral steam-powered locomotive - Oh, cool. (Thanks to David E. Vincent.)

Egos and Immorality - Paul Krugman on the Wall Street fairy tale.

Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history - This is stupid. The evolution debate has ( Read more... )