We're having a snow storm. The kind with the really big fluffy snowflakes.

Today I was hired muscle. I was paid to pace menacingly up and down rows of stressed first years and answer their so-called questions. And boy did I feel like a jerk when I had to take a girl to the washroom, tell her which stall to use, and check it before she went in. So I said "Lady, it's nothing personal, I'm just doing my job." Well, I didn' ( Read more... )

I just had for supper the biggest carrot I've ever seen. A full 13 inches long, not even accounting for the wobbly bit in the middle.

I don't know why, but this year I'm actually getting excited for Christmas. I don't normally. Usually I find Christmas annoying, commercial, and awkward. But this year, I'm excited. I even find myself wanting to go Christmas shopping. However, I predict ten minutes in an actual shopping mall all geared up for the holidays will cure me of this.

Divers in BC got the go ahead to sink a Boeing 737 off the coat of Vancouver Island. The plane was lowered into the ocean and is held up by stilts so that divers can swim under it. They expect the wreck to be home to dozens of species within two years.
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The Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia has already sunk six ships off the coast ( Read more... )

First face transplant undertaken successfully this week in France. Link. Critics speculate on trauma caused by no longer recognising one's own face. Patient pleased with operation, able to smile, eat, speak again, says thank you.

I'm allergic to the poop of things that live in dust.

BOINC is Berkley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. So, same as SETI but with more stuff. SETI is running out of BOINC as of next month. This means that you can divide your run time between ET search and a number of other projects such as CERN LHC, climate prediction, and bunch if disease related programs. Loads of fun!

Stupid, rainy, stupid, bad, icky, grey, stupid, horrible day.

It would be nice if you could still buy real poppies to wear for Remembrance Day. People always complain that their poppies fall off and they loose their poppies and it's such a hassle (e.x. Steven Harper ( Read more... )