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Bleh.
No matter how tired and hungry you are, cottage cheese with marmalade and peanut butter is not nearly as good an idea as it might seem. -
Watch out, August babies...
This article seems to be not a hoax:
"Season of Birth and Human LongevitySummary: Statistical data indicates that adult women born in May & December tend to live 3 years longer on average than those born in August. (February babies also are shorter-lived ( Read more... ) -
Links for the Season
Just to remind people that it's almost Halloween:
Extreme Pumpkin Carving
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Extremely Safe Pumpkin Carving. -
The new icon says it all...
I'm getting too old for this. -
PSA
Higher-order and curried functions are currently kicking my ass. Wish me luck on my exam tomorrow.
ETA: I got kicked, well & truly. Here's hoping for a good curve. -
Pretty pictures...
I've set up a Flickr account, mostly to test it out. I've got a few pretty pictures up from my lab retreat yesterday, if you're really bored...
Busy week at work; we had a whole-lab cleanup on Tuesday and our retreat up at my boss' cabin yesterday. Now I've got to run to our party for a successful grad student's thesis defense. -
Home again, jiggedy jog...
Back home again after a wonderful weekend in Boston!
Thanks to C & L for putting us up, and everybody we saw for putting up with us; thanks to cute_fuzzy_evil for trying to Take! Me! Boat! (stupid cyanobacteria) and ppaladin for succeeding later, and thanks to the people who played frisbee for keeping my husband entertained ( Read more... ) -
Rec request
A friend of mine is looking for elf books. She's read Lackey's "Elvenbane" series, and I just handed her "Bedlam's Bard", but I'm coming up surprisingly short on other suggestions. Any good elf authors I should know about?
p.s. wish me luck on the final I haven't studied for yet. It's in 2.5 hours. -
Birthday Meme
shellaby 's Wiki Birthday Meme:
Go to wikipedia.org, look up your birthday, and post 5 events, 5 births & 5 deaths on that date.
*July 12*
Events:- 1543 - King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
- 1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress.
- 1892 - A hidden lake bursts out ( Read more... )
