Full summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1,_2008

My Highlights:
WoW Bard Class
WoW Molten core
Gmail sends emails to the past
BMW Dog Electrocutor
DnD 1ed shoutout
Star Wars Romance Novels

This one is actually for real:
Kubrick

more to come....the day is young.

A defector from the Russian sector steals the Lektor to give to SPECTRE.

The cat was probably named Hector.

Tom Waits is going on tour (European dates yet to be announced)

Gary Gygax died yesterday

:-(

An update:

I submitted my first first author paper to the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity last week. Preprint hereNext week I will be in Switzerland on my annual work group ski trip ( Read more... )

It is normal that I come in at strange hours, or on days when nobody else is around. I like having the office to myself. But the best time is when I sneak in just after the group meeting starts, because everyone has set up their laptops, their bags are on the floor, and their desks look like someone ought to be there. Their wallets are still on ( Read more... )

I wish I could be this cool.

Penny Arcade: Want to work for Bioware?
They are advertising a writer position for rpgs ( Read more... )

A recent PhD comic inspired me to take a Myers Brigg personality test to see what job it thought suited my personality. The result was INTP. Similar to the conclusion of the comic, I am apparently doing what I ought to be doing. Physicist is one of the options ( Read more... )

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