Sometimes when one has just gotten up, one takes out the garbage or recycling in one's boxers. Sometimes, when one has just gotten up, one fights the Taliban in one's pink I Love NY boxers.

Resurrexit sicut dixit! Alleluia!

I have nothing to add.

Many years ago, in 1994-1995, I had a cookie that I really, really enjoyed, namely the Keebler Toffee Sandy. It was the same shortbread cookie as found in the Pecan Sandy, but with bits of toffee in it instead of pecan. Well, sometime in late 1995-early 1996 Keebler discontinued this cookie. I was heartbroken. How could a thing so wonderful ( Read more... )

So today was my long run. I had planned it as ten miles, but my time felt off when I got back. So I went to mapmyrun.com and found out that I'd done closer to 11.25 miles. Man, do I feel silly. OTOH, it's the longest run that I've done since 1999, so there's that.

The reasons that I am not not not a fan of undergraduates citing Wikipedia are many. One of these reasons is that Wikipedia is often just plain wrong.
For example, in the article on Opium, in the section describing the history of its use, we have this lovely line: "Opium became stigmatized in Europe during the Inquisition as a Middle Eastern ( Read more... )

I am sick, weak and feverish. I do not approve.

At this point, in the last year, more Marines have died in motorcycle accidents than have died in what was once known as "the restive al Anbar province." How they won is outlined in this Power Point presentation that was made up back in 2006 by Army Captain Travis Patriquin, when the situation in the province was at its most dire. Captain ( Read more... )

It's... interesting to see the Senate GOP stand on principle even if said principle means somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 to 5 million jobs lost.

So, according to the newspapers, in the worst monthly job loss in thirty-four years, only two industries created jobs--health care and education.
It's good to be in a counter-cyclical industry.
Of course, the academic job market has always been and always will be crappy, so meh.