Juliet, Cobweb and I leave at 11am west coast time.  Wish us luck.  I've been warned by a friend that security made her carry her cat through the metal detector while the bag was scanned.  This should be very very interesting with two cats.  If you hear about a security breach and subsequent rescreening of passengers at Sacramento Airport, pray it ( Read more... )

I have both of my advisors' signatures on my title page!  Yay!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
That is all.

First they kicked us out of our computer lab despite the fact that there are 10 students in my program in there every day working on our projects (using statistical software packages that none of us can afford to buy on our own ( Read more... )

One of my favourite actors died yesterday.

IMDB lists 138 credits for Mako.  He was a pioneer and  an amazing leader for Asian Americans in theatre.

Rest in peace

Edit:  The NY Times obituary

It's 105 and still climbing.  It's hot all over California.  They've now issued a level 1 emergency because a 750 megawatt plant has gone offline.  D. went into work today in Oakland (which is hitting 100 in the hills), but the building turns off the air conditioning on the weekends.  I can't wait to hear how her day was when we do dinner tonight ( Read more... )

Does anyone know if Owen is in the US or Israel right now?  I must have deleted his last GR e-mail update on his whereabouts.  lisaf?  anyone?

A late LJ HAPPY BIRTHDAY to de-wolf!!!

*blush* At least I sent the gift on time.

Totally work safe (for many of us this looks like work) but you may laugh out loud. Enjoy!!

http://biostat.jhsph.edu/~kbroman/topten_worstgraphs/

Credit to De_wolf for e-mailing me the link.

Asterisk?!?
I choose to interpret bright yellow as relating to Pikachu. ;-)
At least we now have an explanation for the excessive degrees!

Your Birthdate: July 23
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