So... Friday went out to Reedsburg for a party and had a wonderful time! We met a few new geeks and  got to enjoy the company of
knotoknow there and back! A special thanks to her, as she is good peoples who have introduced us to other good people! Saturday H and I both went to work then just sort of hung out at home. On Saturday, we just sort of hung around ( Read more... )

So work in the lab progresses slowly but it does progress. The sun has not really shown itself over the last 4 days which is kinda cool but getting a little boring. Tonight I am headed out of town for a bday party with some folks. Should be fun ( Read more... )

So if you followed today's exchanges on my LJ it is probably clear that montieth and I had a bit of a blowup. I was curious to see his thoughts on this matter so I did check his LJ. I laughed when I saw his post because the response was basically what I assumed it would be. I know it would fit nicely in his world view for me to be (the liberal) to ( Read more... )

an abnormally thounghtful Randi Rhodes show earlier this week on reporting on politics. Not surprising her arguments were focused on the right but many of her arguments really resonates for politics in general ( Read more... )

Nathan Fillion in Castle is hilarious.... best line of Ep 1 Season 2...
"Whenever they do this stuff in CSI there's music and they are doing this in poorly lit rooms. Reminds me of porn"
Drew

Over the last week I saw 2 movies ( Read more... )

Yep... subject line says it all.
drew

A very nice bit on Daily Show last night about the gang-raping of an employee of a government contracted business. This came to my attention earlier this week and I was really stunned. I found the response to be truly stunning. The interview with Barbara Ehrenreich was also great on the retardedness of 'positive thinking'.
Drew

This has been a hectic week but that seems to be the way of things ( Read more... )

So Wednesdays at noon I attend a supergroup meeting of about 15labs that do plant research. Today was a special talk on how to teach evolution and genetics in high school biology courses. I had completely forgotten that we teach genetics and evolution as separate sections in most US high schools... how ridiculous... the 'grammar' of evolution is ( Read more... )