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Well, someone must have liked my abstract
So, in early January I submitted an abstract for a conference. It is a big conference and outside of my traditional field. I've been hoping to break in to this particular community, and figured this would be my chance ( Read more... ) -
Salmon with fermented black bean sauce
Okay, I'm not sure how long I'll actually keep this up ( Read more... ) -
Proud
So today at the gym I'm taking turns on the pull-up machine thingie with some guy. He looks like he's in reasonably good shape, but he's using about 50 pounds of assistance on the contraption. When it's my turn I put the assistance on 0, put a weight on the knee pad to keep it out of the way, and do my regular set of non-assisted pull-ups (well, ( Read more... ) -
Arrr!, again
In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, and seeing as how I have many more friends now than I did then (yay!), I offer a link to my "Arrrr!" post from March. At the time I was on a research vessel off the coast of New Zealand...
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And here are the recipes I've been promising
Over the last few weeks (or even months?) people have been requesting particular recipes from me. Maybe it's because they've liked them at various BBQs or other get-togethers that I have "catered" at my apartment, and maybe it's because I can't stop talking about food. Either way, I've been putting off transcribing and sharing these recipes long ( Read more... ) -
This meme is kinda bullshit
What's up with the emphasis on cities and tourist traps? I've spent a significant amount of time traveling in Tanzania (on four different occasions) but have never made it to Zanzibar (part of Tanzania) in particular (malaria anyone?), so does that make me "poorly traveled in Africa?" I cheated and put it in anyway. I couldn't bring myself to do ( Read more... ) -
Canvas
Once upon a time there was this wonderful little Mac bitmap/vector graphics program called Canvas 3.5. It had everything I needed to make crisp, clean figures for theses, papers, web pages, and things just for fun. It wasn’t laden with useless features that no sane person would ever need or want. The whole program and all of the goodies that ( Read more... ) -
Well, here I am
Metallian finally twisted my arm and here I am, the proud owner of a brand new LJ. I have to admit that you are most likely to find me commenting on other people's LJs rather than posting long-winded updates about my recent visit to the hairdresser ( Read more... )