At the genetics session at Asilomar, the instructor highly recommended Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley. She even read an excerpt from the introduction. So I put it on my Amazon Wishlist, since I suck at genetics. Sure enough, Melanie, who reads science books for fun way more than I do, bought it for me for my ( Read more... )

Before I get to Day 2, I have a bonus for Day 1: duchessdogberry found me on YouTube! That's me asking James McAvoy a question! And this person has a bunch more uploads of the WonderCon panels, so you can see and hear a lot of the stuff I wrote about before and am going to write about right now.

( Exhibit Hall Redux: Meaty )

In case you haven't heard the Rob Thomas news, there it is. Chances are good that in 2008, one of three series will hit the airwaves:

• a remake of Cupid
• an adaptation of the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune
• the original series Party Down

( Avatar 3.2: The Headband )

Tonight, I got to have the rare experience of watching Monday night television with an LJ friend! mutinousmuse and I had dinner first, where I discovered larb, which is like taking ground chicken and soaking it in salt for a week. Then we went back to her apartment, where I was attacked by her extremely hyper dogs but not accosted by her very mellow cat or her ( Read more... )

So I had been waiting nearly ten months for new Avatar, and instead I went and saw Arcade Fire with LCD Soundsystem at the Shoreline because Sylvie had four free tickets just fall into her lap, and you don't pass that shit up. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find people to use the other two tickets on such short notice, but fortunately, sophia_helix, actoplasm, and hobviously ( Read more... )

Now that you've had some time to peruse my awesome pictures, let me tell you some stuff I couldn't fit into my report or post. (Except for one thing that I will copy and paste straight from the report just to see if you're paying attention.)

( Which cast member has syphilis? Who appears to be an egotistical blowhard? And what is up with the cucumber? The answers to these questions and many more lie within. )

Welcome back from your three-day weekend, U.S. Americans! If you happen to have missed it, please check out my post featuring free music and hot female bassists. Then, if your thirst for music is still not satiated, you can go to my audiography post.

People skilled in the art of image manipulation, I have a question for you! Say that in the month ( Read more... )

Thanks to briasoleil, I have now raised $3,000! I can't believe it!

In addition, it is the birthday of one incidentist. Happy birthday, Dan!

This means it's the perfect day to reward Dan for his winning donation. If you missed my recap of the BSG finale, please go read it, as it took me ten hours, and I hope more than ten people read it. Dan doesn't care about BSG, ( Read more... )

All I did was reverse the same way I have done for months and months, except this time, there was a truck in my way ( Read more... )

I attempted to shop at Trader Joe's today. And I spent an hour with only milk and juice in my cart because that's all I understood. I've become dependent on regular grocery stores the way other people are dependent on Trader Joe's. What's their goddamn deal? There are no choices! It's all Trader Joe's this and Trader Joe's that! No variety! It ( Read more... )