I woke up this morning to find a PostIt on the alarm clock. It said "I love you ( Read more... )

The only way to slow down the insanity that is my book-buying habit is for me to run out of space for the books. It has therefore been quite effective to regulate the pace of book acquisition by the spare time I have to make bookshelves. Previously, these were wall-mounted single slabs of (cheap) pine, stained in a two-tone effect (dark edge, ( Read more... )

Interesting thing about working on an NSF grant proposal. By the time you finish writing it, revising it for the 25th time, uploading all the little fiddly bits, and generally beating your head against the wall, you are no longer feeling particularly interested in doing the work for which you are asking for funding ( Read more... )

OK, guys. Need some advice. I'm plunging into some serious programming. I need to use Python, as that is the language that my system talks in. I need to use it to do web-page programming with queries to an SQL database ( Read more... )

... a head, which at this time has no name ( Read more... )

is much more difficult than taking them. I swear ( Read more... )

Falcipennis falcipennis. Gosh, this one was hard to find. This is a valid name for the Siberian grouse, although Dendragapus falcipennis is a commonly used synonym. (If you learn nothing else from this, learn that taxonomy is constantly being revised! The name is our label for the thing, and sometimes we realize someone else already has given X ( Read more... )

Bio Geek Fact of the Day:

As I look for a species in the letter F whose species epithet is the same as the genus name (so the full species name is the same name twice... see previous posts, beginning with Alces alces), I encounter the genus Felis .

Felis is the genus of the small cats ( Read more... )

As I prep tomorrow's meiosis lecture, I had to go look up the numbers properly ( Read more... )

Apparently the way to convince cats to get along with one another is to present them with a mouse. Or at least, mouse-in-wall.

Asha and Yuki are both so terrifically interested in the clunking sounds coming from the wall that for the first time they don't seem to mind being within a meter of one another.

Huh.