...the Writer's Block prompts.

The machine has a burned out (melted) circuit board ( Read more... )

I am very, VERY happy about this success for NASA/JPL and my marswalker!

Mike and I watched the live coverage from

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

and

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

Mike was able to break from his fast and furious note-taking to answer my questions.  I really tried not to ask too many.

I suppose my dumbest question was "Where, ( Read more... )

This cracked me up.

cynnerth and I played Scrabble in a Pixiepit room called the "200 Tiles" room.

I gave us the playernames CCL and CCC  (For "200 Lynda" and "200 Cyn")

As if that weren't funny enough,  the Scrabble Gods gave me a starting rack that allowed me to play a Roman Numeral for the first word:

DCCL

Later I made it DCCLI

*beaming*

But the funniest thing ( Read more... )

We're under storm clouds and unable to look at the eclipse.  I'm going to go to this site to [hopefully] see some live coverage

http://events.slooh.com/

Just What's Inside Those Breasts?

Very interesting Science-y discussion about environment and breasts, appropriate for all listeners.

"Sitting for long periods of time - when you don't stand up, don't move at all - tends to cause changes physiologically within your muscles," says Reynolds. "You stop breaking up fat in your bloodstream, you start getting accumulations of fat ... in your liver, your heart and your brain. You get sleepy. You gain weight. You basically are much less ( Read more... )

I couldn't NOT share this :)

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This was wonderfully hearty and warm with spice, a perfect meal for a cold and blustery day.  It is EASY to throw together.

PUMPKIN & LENTIL SOUP WITH ARUGULA

SAUTEE
2 T olive oil
1 1/2 cups (or so...3 medium onions) chopped onion
A few cloves garlic, minced or crushed

ADD
2-ish cups cooked pumpkin*
1 T  toasted cumin
1 T curry powder
8-ish cups stock (I ( Read more... )

I found a t-shirt for chemistry-major G that made me smile.

People were spending lots of time reading his shirt after he opened it....
( Prepare to groan )