and hello jetlag! I'll try to write a more detailed china post later, but right now my brain is a mass of temporal confusion.

off to china for until the 19th with my family. might have intermittent internet access, but might not.

in unrelated news, the new tegan and sara album is fantastic.

see y'all when I get back!

if I update this more often, maybe other people will update more often too! it is a possibility.

the two most adorkable people I can think of right now:

1. jenna fischer, who plays pam on "the office."

2. sara radle of the rentals ( Read more... )

A shepherd is tending his sheep, and a man comes by and says, "If I guess the correct number of your sheep, can I have one ( Read more... )

they are making a Jenga video game. a Jenga video game. what the hell?

one of the professors I might rotate with next year, Dr. Cliff Tabin, is mentioned in a great New York Times article on evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology)! they're actually running a whole series on evolutionary biology this week, including a really cool article by my favorite science writer, Carl Zimmer, about the observed evolution of ( Read more... )

there are few things in the world with greater awesome than a drummer who is willing to really whale on the cymbals. CRASH CRASH PSH PSH PSH PSH RIDE RIDE CRASH POW

so I did manage to catch a few hours of sleep last night, after my previous livejournal post. about an hour into that, though, I woke up briefly and realized that the bridge of my nose was feeling strange. a quick visual inspection suggested that I had been bitten by a mosquito. which sucks, but it's been happening a lot these last few weeks. the ( Read more... )

okay, I give. when it hits 6:00 am and you still haven't fallen asleep, it's time to admit defeat and just get out of bed.

folks familiar with my music collection are aware that I have a prodigious (i.e. "stupidly ridiculous") quantity of live Radiohead bootlegs. well, I just found the Holy Grail: a high-quality rip of a soundboard recording from one of Radiohead's 2006 shows- the ones which they used to road-test new material ( Read more... )