1. extragalactic jets: theory and observation from radio to gamma ray. (alaska!) definitely going to this.
2. HI survival through cosmic times. (italy!) if i can just finish this paper on HI in groups then i'll have some leverage for this one.
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one (of many) things i keep forgetting to start doing.
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sugar, semi-sweet chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, soya lecithin - an emulsifier vanillin - an artificial flavor), corn syrup, confectioner's glaze, modified food starch, peppermint oil, invertase (an enzyme), soya albumin (a protein), gelatin.

milk and egg may be present.
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What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big ( Read more... )

black pants, black long sleeved t-shirt, colorful scarf tied around my waist, piece of paper folded in a right angle and pinned to my shirt - the half that is flush with my shirt has "e-" on it and the half that is orthogonal to my shirt has "e+" on it. what was i? (aakepley and whiskeygoat are not allowed to guess unless no one guesses and then they should guess ( Read more... )

i like to eat good food with friends. luckily, whiskeygoat knows how to make good food. we cooked up a storm the other night. check it out.

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1. yesterday, instead of working out, i went home and took a nap
2. then i made a coconut cream pie
3. to try out this new instructor and see if she's as hardcore as i hear
4. i need a reason to stay at work this cloudy afternoon instead of going home and taking another nap

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i was back in my hometown last weekend hanging out with a couple of old high school friends. c invited us all out to her parents' boat for the afternoon. the weather wasn't great so we spent the whole afternoon sitting around the table on the dock next to their boat eating goat cheese and crackers (yum). were we alone? no way. who knew that ( Read more... )

this morning t found the following in our mailbox: two paper towels surrounding a hershey's chocolate bar and half a pack of cigarettes. the outer paper towel had a message that went something like this: hi, i saw you working on your yard but you didn't have time to talk. REMEMBER ME??? Mickey ( Read more... )

in general i hate to be the one to have to do the optical spectroscopy. i don't dislike the results, in fact i think spectra in the optical are beautiful but i usually hate the proposing and planning and setup. maybe it's just because i don't do a lot of it so i'm less comfortable with it than with radio observations. however, i find myself ( Read more... )