So, last week I posted this:

Is anyone interested in going to see any of these with me?  I'm busy on the Wednesday, but don't think I'm busy Thursday or Saturday.  I've seen An Inconvenient Truth, so I'm thinking Thursday might be the night for me.

Come with me! There's nothing better than movies about climate change and energy!

Now it turns out that ( Read more... )

Is anyone interested in going to see any of these with me?  I'm busy on the Wednesday, but don't think I'm busy Thursday or Saturday.  I've seen An Inconvenient Truth, so I'm thinking Thursday might be the night for me.

Come with me! There's nothing better than movies about climate change and energy! 

Today, after years of talking about it, we finally got our acts together and went snowshoeing ( Read more... )

BC Place deflated!  I figured it would happen eventually, but was banking on it being during a major emergency, when it lost power and would (apparently) deflate slowly over 4-6 hours.  But it went out with a bang today!  I'd be sad it they couldn't repair it, but for the time being I kind of find the whole thing amusing.  I totally want to go gawk ( Read more... )

It's too early to be awake, particularly on a day when I have nothing planned.

Bah.

Whenever I hear this song I think of Cheryl, because of the reference to the Multnomah County Library. Oh libraries ( Read more... )

Manufacturing characteristics and shelf life of Quesillo, an Argentinean traditional cheese
Food Control, Volume 18, Issue 6, June 2007, Pages 736-741
R. Oliszewski, J.C. Cisint and M. Núñez de Kairúz

Between yesterday and today, ScienceDirect is supplying my inbox with an appetizer platter.

Strangest article to come through my inbox yet today:  "Survey on typology, PRPs and HACCP plan in dry fermented sausage sector of Northern Italy"

Mmmm.... Sausage...

Interesting

"This report summarizes the main findings of the poll conducted for BBC World Service by research agency Synovate in October 2006, exploring the views and opinions of young people aged 15 - 17. In total, 3,050 youths were interviewed in 10 key cities." Those ten cities are: New York, Jakarta, Moscow, London, Nairobi, Cairo, Lagos, Rio, ( Read more... )

TODAY is the day I should have brought my camera.  There are half a dozen men climbing the trees across the street from my office.  From this distance they look like little gnomes.  If only their hardhats were pointed on top.