Today I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner in my cube (or as I'm now supposed to call it, my 'habitat' because cube is too close to pube).

I can't decide if it makes me badass and dedicated, or just pathetic...

This arrived in my inbox today, I thought I'd share ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have these moments where it really hits me that I spent the last few hours thinking about how tiny particles move around in water.  Today I had about 5 of those moments.....

After so many hours of staring at squiggly lines trying to see thousands of years of history, the brain needs a break.  I've also been intermittently doing origami while waiting patiently for my data to load.  Something about folding tiny pieces of paper that is relaxing rather than as infuriating as it sounds.  The book of origami flowers that I ( Read more... )

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Quarter life crisis, or just good logic?  *sigh*

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Doing work at my favorite local coffee shop (full of trendy mac users like myself) and I've found myself very distracted and eavesdropping on the couple next to me who are clearly on a first date.  The bubbly conversation, nervous leaning in and fiddling with their respective coffees and teas, legs crossing and uncrossing, it's adorable and I wish ( Read more... )

The New York Times rates Detroit as #40 on their 'must-visit' 53 places of 2008....I feel like I'm missing out on some sort of sick inside joke ( Read more... )

I guess I'm a real cyclist now, I went flying off my bike on Friday night on my commute home.   I was lost in thought about a paper I was working on and didn't see the lovely street grate just waiting to eat my tire.  So one second I'm thinking about glaciers and the next minute my front bike wheel has taken a nosedive into the street grate and i' ( Read more... )