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Three cheers for ovoviviparity.  Mostly, I just like that word.

So here's the thing:  I really didn't like The DaVinci Code.  I liked the movie well enough, and then I picked up the book because everyone said the book was better and I tried to like it.  Hell, I tried to finish it, but... I just couldn't get through it, and I've been trying to figure out why.  My initial thought was that I didn't like it because ( Read more... )

I enjoy reading Slate.  It's one of the websites that I generally read every day and it's generally interesting.  So, a week or so ago, I'm browsing in Barnes and Noble, I see the 10th anniversary Slate book, I think "Oh, cool" and I buy it.  Definitely not the least logical thing I've done this month.  Anyway, the book is an anthology of ( Read more... )

At work yesterday around 11:30am, the entire floor started to smell like bacon.  Now, either someone had bacon for lunch, or the lab down the hall that works on pigs is not following standard animal protocols.  Or possibly both.

I am more than willing to admit that I have a tremendously uncool taste in music (a strong argument could be made that I have tremendously uncool tastes in other things, like clothes, movies, boys, etc, but that's beside the point). I know that I should be into all the indie rock bands, etc, etc, and there are a few that I like, but for the most ( Read more... )

I know my journal entries have been heavy on the 'my life sucks' style entries lately. For all two of my readers, sorry about that. However, the universe seeme to have it in for me lately, as witnessed by the latest injustice: my finger. I slammed my right index finger in a car door on Friday night and now it is purple, swollen, inflexible and it ( Read more... )

So, with the upheaval lately I've been doing some soul-searching, wondering what I did to deserve... well, all the upheaval. But it really all came to a head today when I attended my building's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month luncheon and cooking demonstration and someone in administration decided to hook up the sound system to play "It's a ( Read more... )

I finally broke down and bought an ipod. I've been thinking about it for awhile, but with my impending week alone in the lab, I figured I should bite the bullet and do it. So, I'm at the Apple store, standing at the counter and the guy (named Wolf!) is checking me out (not like that). Another guy, who is ten times prissier than anyone over the ( Read more... )

I watched Star Wars Episodes II and III this weekend with Matt and I've come to an embarrassing conclusion: that while I understand the "Jedi good" "Anakin becomes Vader" "light saber duels rule" aspects of it, there is a very real level at which I have no idea what's going on ( Read more... )