Wow, it's been a while. A lot's happened, but most of you who read this know what most of that is. Yep, I got married. It's hard to believe. I had such an awesome time seeing all my friends and family here and in Israel, and of course, seeing my beautiful wife in her wedding dress. Amazing. We're still dealing with a lot of wedding related stuff, ( Read more... )

Ok, I finally got around to posting these. Thanks again to everyone who made it out here. I had an awesome time!

So, I think I'm about done with my current research project. Not that I'll get a paper out of it. Not that I'll find an answer to the question (actually two other labs already found the answer, which is why I don't care anymore). But I'm done and that's great! Now I can focus on another project that I really am interested in. I have a committee ( Read more... )

So on Friday, I got this email from our tech at work that there were plastic serological pipettes all over the floor in the lab. When I came in to work I discovered some more in my part of the lab. It was real weird, because nothing else was awry in the lab. Since it clearly looked like vandalism, my boss called the building maintenance guy over ( Read more... )

Why do they call being in debt, "in the red" and the converse, "in the black." In theory both colors could be viewed negatively. Red symbolizes blood, so being in the red, could mean you're bleeding, your (financial) life is ebbing away. But black can be viewed as a negative color as well. Nightime, sadness, depression. Just wondering.

Yeah, I know I'm terrible at this, but I'm seriously ALWAYS at work. Work consumes me ( Read more... )

So, I finally did it. I voted Republican for the first time. And right after I was done I pulled out my lightsaber and slew two dozen Jedi children ( Read more... )

I was just thinking the other day about my other brain. It turns out that there are about a billion neurons in our digestive tract. That's 1% of the number in our brain. What's cool is that the digestive brain can function largely independently of the rest of the body. It receives only 10% of its input from our other brain and when the main input ( Read more... )

It's suddenly become very cold. I believe this has been the earliest I've experienced snow since coming to Michigan. Yesterday I felt very congested. I was sneezing and blowing my nose the entire day. How much snot can a human nose hold? It's like my body was metabolizing everything into snot. Anyway, so I cam home last night and had Shabbat dinner ( Read more... )

This weekend I went to yet another retreat, this time for the MCDB (molecular, cell, developmental biology) department. This time I gave a talk. I was limited to 15 minutes, but it was even less because I wanted to reserve time for questions and for showing off pictures of all the lab members. But every time I practiced it went over 15 minutes. The ( Read more... )