The day started with a John Cleese moment. In maybe my favorite bit of A Fish Called Wanda, John Cleese is lying on the courtroom floor. He's just admitted to having an affair with a witness in open court, his client attacked him and his wife gave him a smack upside his head. His career is over, his wife is gonna divorce him and his client will ( Read more... )

Work has been insane lately, even by my standards. However, in lieu of talking about things that I can't talk about, I give you this video from the bowels of YouTube.

Like much of their content, it's either the worst or the best thing ever. The only danger in watching the video is that, like me, you might get the original version stuck in your ( Read more... )

There's something haunting about this image:


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Reading Bill Simmons' running diary today really made me yearn for those halcyon days during grad school when we'd take the first day of the NCAA tournament off as a religious observance. We'd start off the day at Kincaid's, semi-sports bar up in Lincoln Park. It was the de facto KU bar in Chicago (many KU grads having the distinct urge to get ( Read more... )

Thanks to daylight savings time, I'm wide awake when I should be going to bed, so I figured I'd update things around here ( Read more... )

I'll be back on later tonight for the post-Brookhaven wrap-up, but while it's foremost on my mind let me note that following up a coffee with a Red Bull and cuppa extra strong Earl Grey tea may have been a bad idea. I'm not dead certain, but there seems to be a possibility that my right eyeball will spontaneously pop itself out of its socket in ( Read more... )

It's been not quite 36 hours since I got back from Cornell. I didn't intend it to be the case when I agreed to give a colloquium there back in November, but the talk was basically an upstate dress rehearsal for my first job talk of the season coming up this Wednesday at Brookhaven ( Read more... )

I may be the most socially inept person I know. I gotta call earlier this evening from the fine folks at UCLA telling me that I've made their short list. This was fairly unexpected since their short list has been up on the rumor wiki for a couple weeks and I wasn't on it. It was also a little ironic since earlier in the day the Administration ( Read more... )

Inspired by Alice's remarkable socks, I felt like I should put something up to let those who've still haven't given me up for dead know what's been going on here in the 'Burgh ( Read more... )

Tomorrow promises to be an interesting day. We're having the grand opening of the local office, so the VP of Research is gonna be in town along with tours for local press and some elected officials. There was some word that Santorum might be among the dignitaries, but no one's said anything about it since that initial mention, so I think it'll ( Read more... )