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You know you're at a physics seminar when...
The question "Is that obvious?" from the audience leads to several minutes of serious brow-furrowing contemplation and discussion, ultimately leading to a conclusion of "I don't *think* so, but maybe." -
Events of the past few days
1) We forgot that the snake has figured out how to get out of his feeding cage and left him overnight, so I discovered him stretched across the living room on a mid-night bathroom run. After debating waking Uwe, I hauled him up on my bokken (because he can be a tad too feisty after a feeding for me to want to grab him by hand) and managed to carry ( Read more... ) -
Computer reading via Tofu
Oh, I am madly in love with Tofu. It make reading things on the computer awesome. My interest in Project Gutenberg has jumped enormously, and let us not speak of the dark temptations of the Baen Free Library (oops, where did last weekend go?). I knew I was hooked when I found myself copying web articles so I could read them Tofu-style ( Read more... ) -
Research Self Reminders (some more recently poignant than others)
- Always have two independent versions of a code or calculation, at least for some test cases. Check them both anytime things look weird ( Read more... ) -
Random nutrition rant
Does anyone else suspect that the effectiveness of glucosamine supplementation has something to do with people not eating enough tendons or sinewy bits or bone marrow or all the other parts of animals that don't come in nicely stripped packs or aren't as tasty/easy when food is abundant? I am a hypocrite because I don't eat those parts. But I tried ( Read more... ) -
Short Attention Span
A few have commented on my lack of running updates. Well, last week was kind of a slacker week for running. It was feeling unusually difficult and tiring and I skipped a run and wussed out on the full time another. On Sunday (after procrastinating all day) I decided to go back in the Couch to 5K program and do an older run based on distance, which ( Read more... ) -
PhiLOLsophy
Oh man, this phoLOLsophers flickr pool is awesome...
Favorites so far: swanz and gödel and lama and of course klein bukkit. -
Songs for kicking ass
Blasted through that 2 mile sticking point today! And made it in just as it started to rain, and also before the hail. Bonus.
So, while I'm waiting for the directly overhead lightning to subside before I shower: ( Oh LJ friendlist, bestow your musical knowledge upon me. ) -
Twenty minutes
I did it. Twenty solid minutes, not a single step of walking. Wow. 40 days ago I couldn't even run for two minutes. I realize now that I didn't actually know how to jog back then, though ( Read more... ) -
Mmmm
Today I made apple-rhubarb crumble all evening. It required no shopping - I am so impressed that we habitually stock sufficient ingredients for this sort of thing. And it is freakin delicious. Oh man. This one.
I like rhubarb. Last week I used our allotment for sort-of-curried chicken sauce. I like it that way too, but Uwe much prefers it as a