I've been thinking about which "miracle" to explain for the Juggalo Science Fair. Clearly the paper about how fucking magnets work will be a lot of people's #1 choice, but I was thinking about explaining the evolution of the long-necked giraffe with emphasis on the recurrent laryngeal nerve. All mammals share a common ancestor, and perhaps as an ( Read more... )

Despite the video and its ridicule going viral, my initial reaction to the Insane Clown Posse "Miracles" video was actually quite positive. It may have helped that I found it right after my post about numinous experience, but I interpreted the song in the same spirit. If I was going to make a list of the things that bring me joy as a naturalist/ ( Read more... )

This evening I'm going to see Richard Dawkins speak at Berkeley City Arts & Lectures. He's doing a book tour for "The Greatest Show On Earth", and I like him. I've been trying to think of a good question to ask him during the Q&A ( Read more... )

Today is the North California Grilled Cheese Invitational, which combines my two favorite passtimes: eating grilled cheese, and judging things harshly ( Read more... )

This Saturday matrushkaka and I are going to the 2008 South SF Bay Area Home Tiki Bar Crawl. We'll be heading down on Saturday morning if anyone wants to join us. Perhaps we should plan on having breakfast at Hobees or something.

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I'm about to leave for the Electronics Flea Market at De Anza College (formerly at Foothills College). Later today, around noon, I'm going to the Long Now MechaniCrawl. You are welcome to run into me at either event.

I get my hair cut at Nancy's Barber Shop in San Rafael. Nancy is a late middle aged Vietnamese woman and runs her barbershop as a one-woman operation. Over the last several months I've gotten her to open up a little about her childhood in Vietnam, experience during the war, and fleeing to America with her children after the war. (Things have ( Read more... )

Modeselektor is playing Wednesday, March 19 at Mighty in SF. Tickets are a mere $12. That is all.

Hell House is a haunted house style attraction typically run by North American fundamentalist Christian churches, an attempt by Christian groups to synchrotize pagan holidays the way they absorbed Christmas. Take a haunted house, replace the mummies and vampires with homosexuals, abortion doctors, fornicators, and Harry Potter fans, and you've got ( Read more... )

Attention, rosindust, sysd, and other Atlanta-area LJ'ers. If you choose, you can attend this event at 8:00pm on Saturday, December 29. Please observe from a safe distance, taking care to document crowd reaction to determine whether or not I am losing the bet.


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