Just got back from a trip to Mexico, to give a talk at this thing about my paper on neutrinos. The conference was pretty fun and my talk went well and everything, but mostly it was an excuse to go visit Chichen Itza, this awesome set of Mayan ruins. Here are a bunch of picturesA few of the many cool things I learned about the Mayans ( Read more... )

So, I spent a week in London about a month ago - 4 days of a cosmology conference, and 3 days of touristing. I gave a talk at the conference, and did loads of networking in the hopes of connecting with someone in London who will want to hire me sometime in the near future. So that was pretty exhausting. After the conference, I met up with my ( Read more... )

This beautifully written article lamenting the fate of South Hovse artwork during the renovations brought a tear to my eye.

The students were relocated to an improvised trailer park at the north end of campus, where mobile homes had been arranged into virtual Houses. (No one was surprised to find the trailers of faux Fleming standing aloof from ( Read more... )

Molly: (peeling carrots) Holy crap, look at this carrot.
Tim: Woah. (ponders for a minute) Take a picture of it before we eat it.
Molly: I don't think a picture can appropriately convey the three-dimensionality of the twistiness here.
Tim: Well make a movie with the camera and post it on YouTube.
Molly:

I just got a gmail ad for http://turtlesale.com. On a conversation that had nothing to do with turtles, mind you.

Just wanted to show off a picture of the Cutest Dessert Ever that Tim and I made for Thursday-Night-Dinner-on-Tuesday-on-Thursday-on-Wednesday this week:


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White & Nerdy video

This is mildly amusing throughout, but there's one hilarious bit near the end that's especially for borcherm.

... I plan to feel self-righteous and smug while enjoying the E.Coli-free locally grown spinach that we got in our CSA farm share this week.

On a related note, many thanks to jshelton for the eggplant gratin recipe - we've gotten a ridiculous overabundance of eggplants this year. We made it for dinner tonight and it satisfied us two eggplant-haters, as ( Read more... )

Pictures from the Netherlands!

I tried to be all clever and put in a bunch of links in the captions to more info about the historical things and such, but they lamely don't show up in the slide show. (I know it used to work - they must have changed some stuff so it now doesn't work.) Oh well. Maybe I should convert to flickr or something.