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all of the commercials during the federer vs nadal french open final were for investment firms, insurance companies, and home alarm systems. all of the home alarm system commercials included some implication of potential harm to the female/child occupant(s) of the house. does this mean that mostly rich men watch tennis ( Read more... )

to the doctor : i think i have giardia but i'm not symptomatic yet.

to the AAA girl : all the coolant fell out of my car onto the ground.

to my advisor : hey, i'm back and i didn't get mauled by bears!

to aakepley : watch pyaar ke side effects, although whiskeygoat hates every movie i recommend, so maybe you shouldn't.
to the middle school kid : what does this cookie ( Read more... )

i want to teach science to buddhist monks in india!
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domes are closed due to rain
domes are closed due to threatening clouds


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last night for dinner we had guac and chips, tom kha, and berry pie. whiskeygoat came over to eat and made sure i put enough salt in everything (my mom never put salt in anything and thus i'm prone to forget it). i like making pies because i think they're beautiful. plus, i took my mom's huge marble slab last time i visited (she was complaining about ( Read more... )

i'm leaving for an observing run in india on monday and i don't know what book to take! anyone read any so-good-i-couldn't-put-it-down fiction books recently?
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1. another grant that a handful of grad students and i wrote to fund our new after-school astronomy program was accepted. we can really buy some cool supplies now!
2. i love chacos! i sent mine back to get resoled and requested that they hurry since i need them for my observing trip to india in january. they sent me a mail today saying they are rushing ( Read more... )

i was under the impression that at liberal arts schools you would be expected to teach 4 classes a semester (maybe 3 if you're lucky) with at least 3 preps (which means two of the classes are the same, again, if you're lucky). is this untrue? who knows an astronomer (i think physicists would work too) at a liberal arts school? ask around and ( Read more... )

today i got an alert from my credit card company that > 1000$ had been charged to my account. i checked and 2024.00$ had been charged to my account THREE TIMES! from Glass Alchemy, ltd. (i had a fraudulent charge a couple of weeks ago: 0.45$ from the canadian cancer society. i disputed it and they credited it back to my account in an expression ( Read more... )