Another all-nighter.  This one has to turn out with me going to class, taking a zoology test at 8am, probably handing in some number theory proofs at 9am, handing in physics problems & lab report at 10am, handing in a rambling two-page paper on brain disorders at 11am, & probably taking a lot of notes in the meantime.  I've knocked out the physics ( Read more... )

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Okay, so it's not the "best" thing on the internet ever (although it is pretty great), but, as I discovered by reading this article from back in May on Today I Found Out (awesome site, go check it out if you don't already),

THIS IS A COPY OF THE FIRST PAGE EVER TO APPEAR ON TEH INTERNET EVER OMGZ.

(I think I'd be excited about this even if it were ( Read more... )

Puny humans, meet your new overlords:


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Not that my updates generally qualify as proper entries, but somewhere in an avalanche of benzene reactions my brain just sort of stopped today.  The most intelligent thing I could say about isoamyl acetate in lab today was "This shit's bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S."  (In my defense, isoamyl acetate does smell like bananas.)

Now that I've passed what mere ( Read more... )

So, if you're curious as to how the Gulf disaster compares to other major oil oopses in history, [here was a sobering map].  Now, I haven't actually fact-checked this map, but it sure as hell makes me wish for a nuclear car.

(Okay, so I would be wishing for the nuclear car even if BP hadn't fucked us over.  But still.)

In other news, God isn't making ( Read more... )

As many of us will remember, since this factoid has gotten a lot of popular attention, the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has given us the longest "word" -- the name for the largest known protein.

Here are all 189,819 glorious letters.

Thank you, IUPAC.  & thank you, carbon.  Stupid carbon.

Liam Neeson accepts praise for his performance in Five Minutes of Heaven & takes us back to the start, HIS CRUCIFIXION.  Amen.

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Incidentally, don't you like how James Nesbitt's clip is voice-over?  LOL

More substantive post forthcoming; in the meantime, I have a question.

So, John Cleese guest starred on 3rd Rock from the Sun during the third & sixth seasons.  He played a pompous British professor who is strangely better than Dick (John Lithgow) at everything & seduces Mary (Jane Curtin) away from him.  I won't spoil the rest of it, but his name, ( Read more... )

This past Sunday, St John's in Annapolis held their commencement ceremony.  Once upon a time, I would have stood among the graduates, so naturally I read the local news article about it.  The keynote was given by a man named Warren Winiarski (class of 1952).  Now, I know nothing about this fellow, but apparently he is a noted vinter.  That's right ( Read more... )