Politics suck.  You can be a lying calculated tool with a completely obvious mask on, and that's no problem.  In fact, if you're that way, you are perfectly suited to being a modern american president ( Read more... )

So THAT'S where I've been hiding my plasma ray gun and invulnerability suit!  Ha haaa!  Well that changes everything.  I'm back on track, baby!

Don't go anywhere, I'll be there very soon.

World domination: "It looks good on you."

I knew I should have been a biologist!  I'm that guy that sits in the back of a human factors lecture on the structure and function of the eye and light/color perception who raises his hand and starts asking questions about how this or that must function differently in fish and aquatic mammals.  I'm freaking studying HUMAN FACTORS and I'm entirely ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Journal, I certainly had a great day today.  Sure, I can't remember much of it, but here's a stab anywho:

1)  I did a full environmental assessment of a national indoor Cricket field (checking humidity, temperature, radiant temperature, wind speed, light levels, and vector luminance).  That was fun because science is fun!

2)  I attended ( Read more... )

Wow.  You really know you must be lazy when even the thought of doing something unproductive seems like way too much work.

Would someone please just give me my masters, a car, a house in Scotland and southern France, a sexy comic book loving comedic scientist Irish girlfriend with red hair, and pay back my student loans?  Please?

Labeling as "natural"

In May 2006, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened to file a lawsuit against Cadbury Schweppes for labeling 7 Up as "All Natural"[38] or "100% Natural",[39] despite containing high-fructose corn syrup. While the U.S. FDA has no definition of "natural", CSPI claims that HFCS is not a “natural” ( Read more... )

Some days the collapsing past and expanding future of my life seem respectively mirrored and homogenized within the outer walls of my mind.

Well I had a lovely spring break.  Played down in London and Oxford with Morgane's family, spent a week in Prague giving Morgane tours and reliving some of my prior sins, and recently just spent a week in Scotland on the Isle of Skye hiking 20 miles a day up mountains with my feet constantly wet for 3 days in some of the most beautiful landscapes I ( Read more... )

I just had a lovely time in London and Oxford.  Really nice.  I was expecting to pay for most of everything for myself with maybe a little help from Morgane's parents, but they didn't let me pay for anything!  Paid for my travel ($12 a day for metro), dinners, wine, hotels, travel to oxford and back.....I knew they were generous, but that was ( Read more... )

Hey there, I'm off to London and Oxford again for a few days.  Everyone take care!

PS- Sorry for being such a grumpy git recently...I'm getting old and English people make me grumpy.