( How my goals went last week )

You know, sometimes I think when it comes to Doctor Who, I'm more interested in the characters than I am in the actual episodes. Because when the show is good, it's really good (I loved the opening two-parter and "The Doctor's Wife"), but then they insist on wasting some of their precious thirteen slots on the dull or the plotwise incoherent ( ( Read more... )

Weekend was fairly productive. I actually made myself get up early enough on Saturday morning to go to a Farmer's Market. Took me a little while to find it because while it was only a short drive away I had never been there before. The two markets I frequented last year aren't open for the season yet. Anyway, there wasn't much there yet, produce- ( Read more... )

I need a new DW icon.

( Spoilers )

I have real life stuff to post about later, but right now I'm going to talk about Doctor Who.

( Spoilers for The Impossible Astronaut )

I never liked Valentine's Day, whether I had a significant other at the time or not. For me, it's like if you're single, the entire world is conspiring to rub it in your face. And if you're not single, then there's so much pressure to be super romantic and buy lovey-dovey gifts and blech. I don't do romance on demand, sorry. That's just not how I ( Read more... )

In my last TV post I said I'd say something about the new shows I'm watching.

Despite believing that this year's crop of new shows was even more dismal than usual, I decided to try out three: Undercovers, No Ordinary Family, and The Event.

I haven't watched Undercovers at all. I keep meaning to, but I've been too busy and I'm already watching...* ( Read more... )

Science
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2010 IgNobel Winners - Self-explanatory.

Cancer fighter found in marine microbes - microbes can do anything!

This is a news article about a scientific paper - Okay, not technically science, but still funny ( Read more... )

Guess what I'm doing right now? Posting from home! We finally got U-verse installed on Saturday, so now I have to catch up on things. I'm too far behind on the flist to catch up, but from now on I will be around more ( Read more... )

You know, only two days late.

Science
Are genetically engineered fish safe? - Your biotech controversy of the week. For the record, I support the biotech industry. I also support compulsory labeling of food, because people should be fully informed about what they're putting into their systems.

A habitable exoplanet found? - This is exciting. ( Read more... )