That's right people, it's that time of year again where the Noise poll is out! Get out there (errr... click the link?) and vote for the best of the best in the Boston music scene this past year! I feel honored to have been bandmates with 3 of the nominees, so if you're looking for suggestions ( Read more... )

Save Our Science

Actually, this isn't about evolution (which my past rants about evolution might lead you to believe), but something closer to my heart: space exploration.

Happy Halloween =)

We were watching the "history of halloween" the other night on the history channel, and they mentioned that centuries ago, girls would use halloween as an excuse to get together and use divination to find out about romantic prospects. I definitely remember doing that in elementary school, getting out the ouji board and asking spirits if my crush ( Read more... )

We went to our first concert in Baltimore last night: KMFDM. Lots of fun. Seems that an industrial scene does exist in this area, though I'm sure a fair number of people in the crowd were transplants from the DC area.

But maybe there's still a scene here (we did go to a Friday goth night that was pretty sparse; maybe the Saturday night is better

when did CNN become such a sensationalist rag? I was a bit miffed last night when reading about the Montreal shooting on an AP site where in the first line they said, "a man wearing a black trenchcoat and a mohawk opened fire in a Montreal school." um, is his appearance that important to mention in the first line of the article? guess it shows that ( Read more... )

reading astronomy textbooks and having to pause and think: is that a v or a nu? especially when there are both in the same equations.

I've also come to the conclusion that:
my scripts Is and script Ss look pretty much the same
my integral signs and uppercase print Ss look similar

Spanish fashion show rejects too-skinny models

I would like to think that this would be the start of getting healthy models. much better message of what a model (or an ideal) should be.

Ok, it's been called Threatened Species Day for the past 10 years, but it used to be called Thylacine Day. (oh, this is in Australia)

To celebrate, if you haven't checked out the Boston band Thylacine, do listen to their mp3s on their myspace site.

I was watching Animal Planet last night, and they had commercials for Steve Irwin's new documentary, of swimming with deadly ocean animals. I made a mental note of the time since I have an obsession with sea aminamals (and they were showing whale sharks! booyeah!), only to wake up this morning and learn that he died from a stingray ( Read more... )