I've gotten a couple questions about how my department does qualifying exams. I do need to get back to work soon, but I'm taking a break long enough to explain what I'm doing ( Read more... )

Monday morning I start my qualifying exams. For the next three weeks I'll basically be searching for articles, reading them, and writing scads of pages. I will be extremely busy. I just want to let people know this because I probably won't have time (or at least not nearly as often) to do things like check email or comment on LJ entries, and I ( Read more... )

Last weeks' NY Times Style section had an article about the best chocolate chip cookies in the city and an accompanying recipe for the best possible chocolate chip cookies Someday I'll try that, when I am in the mood to buy both cake flour and bread flour, as well as really expensive chocolate. For now, I just mixed up a batch of the regular Toll ( Read more... )

Today I got results from my fasting cholesterol test. Even fasting, I was still at 203, which is a smidge above the desired range. Good cholesterol is supposed to be 40 or higher, and mine is 41. Bad cholesterol should be 130 or lower, and mine is 138, so that's not great. Still the doctor says that since I'm not overweight, I don't smoke, and ( Read more... )

My cholesterol is apparently 205. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to talk about that.

Yea! Somebody I know got in the Cash Cab!!! I can't wait to find out if/when it will air.

First, briefly, the bullet thing has been ruled an accident.

Second, way to collect a whole lot of legally invalid confessions, dude.

Next, this is an update on those horrible shock experiments you learn about when you're taught why the IRB exists. I think it's the perfect title specifically because that's what we all worry about, isn't it? ( Read more... )

I'm interested to learn if this is due to accident or evil.

I've been searching in vain for the type of product I'd like to purchase. Just because I can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, though, so I thought I'd try asking my readership in case any of them are more familiar with this stuff than I am ( Read more... )

Hey, me ( Read more... )