My faith in the average American voter has been partially restored after last night. Now I'm waiting with no small degree of trepidation to see if the Democrats are going to do anything with this nice shiny mandate that's been handed to them on a silver platter.* I was seriously starting to wonder if Americans were willing to forgive any ( Read more... )

So I went and cast my ballot today, a little from both parties depending on where the candidate claimed they stood ( Read more... )

Haggard admits "Sexual Immorality": http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15536263/Read more... )

I haven't bought a Final Fantasy game at retail since Final Fantasy VIII hit store shelves some seven odd years ago when I was just a wee sophomore in high school. At the time I was expecting something along the lines of a clone of VII in terms of gameplay and was disappointed both in the junction system as well as what seemed (at the time) to be ( Read more... )

Here's another dose of geek humor to lighten your day:

"Baby, if I were an enzyme I'd be DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes."

That will be all.

Happy Mole Day everyone! Today is a day for science geeks the world over to come together and celebrate Avogadro's number (6.022x10^23), or the number of atoms/molecules in one mole of a substance.

The celebration lasts from 6:02a.m. to 6:02p.m., so if you have a Chemistry class see if you can get the day off.

Evidently I've been tagged in a meme. I don't really have any active friends on my list who haven't already posted, so I'll forego tagging anyone else at the end ( Read more... )

It's getting close to Halloween, and that means a legitimate excuse to dress up like a Ghostbuster and have fun with the guys ( Read more... )

I had my first "old" moment in my physics lab last week. One consequence of switching my academic focus towards dentistry at the end of my undergraduate career is that I now find myself taking classes with people who were in middle school when I graduated. Another consequence of this is that our pop culture vocabularies can sometimes be wildly ( Read more... )

I love it when you get a brief reprieve that you didn't even know was coming. I've been going nonstop thanks to professors who give their first exams within the same week. I thought there would be another one this week in Physiology, but it turns out that won't be coming up until next Thursday. That means more time to memorize the notes!