Genetically stodgy: British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says

All right, listen up all you Linux-promoting, Slashdot-reading, 'M$ haha I spellzored it wrong'-saying nerds. Yes, I'm looking at you, User Friendly. You're my brothers (and sisters too, but there are fewer of them) and I love you. We are nerds together. Even if I don't admit it at the reunions. But you've seriously got to get another joke ( Read more... )

For some reason, this sounds like something that John Allison would write:

"meantime let me already make some comments on your writeup below, in CAPS." (comment by advisor)

Also, two of four Russian condensed matter theorists from the University of Utah have already spoken at Boulder this month. It's only a matter of time until I get to harass ( Read more... )

CU researcher wins share of Nobel Prize

Well, looks like there will be glee at SPS today. Also pizza.

(Random update/note: quantum test today began with "In light of the recent Nobel Prize announcement, I've rewritten the test to keep up our standards.")

Pity me, dear friends, for I suffer from a rare and malignant disease. I will put no name to it, but merely enumerate a few symptoms ( Read more... )

"I owe it all to dire genius" for "I owe it all to Diogenes" (Start Wearing Purple, Gogol Bordello)
"Circle strafe, circle strafe, rape, rape rape" (Dummy Discards A Heart, Deerhoof - this is what happens when you play Halo too much)

Anyone know the actual lyrics for that bit?

Went all the way to the Springs to see Tommy Emmanuel play. Seriously, if you haven't seen him or Trace Bundy live, you have no idea how a guitar should be played. Tommy even threw in a little bit of the "Charade" theme for those of us who love the best movie that Hitchcock never made ( Read more... )

In no particular order, ten favorite novels (all right, Ficciones isn't a novel, but it's going on there anyway ( Read more... )

I need to write a love note to a song. You see, as with people, the songs you love most are not necessarily your friends. If you pushed me up against a wall and told me to name my favorite Dylan song, my answer would be "All Along The Watchtower," or maybe "Shelter From The Storm," depending on what mood I'm in. But I would be lying. To me, ( Read more... )

Well, I just screamed MOTHERFUCKER very loudly ( Read more... )