Today, I received two of the most pleasing compliments I've heard all year. First, a Korean postdoc told me that I look and act very mature for my age. She followed this with "it's like British. Is your family from England?" Now, most may not view this as a compliment, but my entire "mature Englishman" perception is an amalgam of Neil Gaiman, ( Read more... )

IRON MOTHERFUCKING MAIDEN!

Today was nothing short of an outstanding day. After several attempts, I successfully made Doubles, the national dish of Trinidad. Unfortunately, there will be no pictures because I was too busy eating and it doesn't really look like much anyway. Basically, it's curried chickpeas wrapped in seasoned frybread. Also, it's essentially street ( Read more... )

Today, rather than doing actual work, I went to a stem cell symposium at UCSF. We arrived an hour late because I trusted the directions of a coworker, who claimed she had "spent all day looking at the directions on the website so we wouldn't get lost." Naturally, this was not the case. Of course, I had planned an alternate and more direct route ( Read more... )

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• 16:17 I am not a fucking doctor. #
• 19:34 California: HEAT WAVE! = Texas: Business as usual. #

• 13:26 My piss smells like cereal. Perhaps a different breakfast tomorrow. #
• 15:56 Damnit. This bright yellow banana is a starchy piece of shit. #

• 10:39 "This baby's blood is shit! How do you expect me to make zombies out of this? He was almost a toddler for Christ #
• 10:39 "This baby's blood is shit! How do you expect me to make zombies out of this? He was almost a toddler for Christ's sake!" #

• 09:41 Rule 34: Porkchop sandwiches. #