I don’t usually blog about personal matters, but a close friend of the family, a civil rights lawyer named Ashley, has been diagnosed with a fairly aggressive form of inoperable cancer. This is especially painful since she successfully fought off ovarian cancer not quite a year ago. I’m out of the country right now so [...]
Tagged cancerOn Thursday I rode with my good friend Travis from Chapel Hill to High Point. Got a bit of a sunburn, but otherwise enjoyed the road. We had a stretch of about six miles after we turned off of Greensboro Chapel Hill Road where we only saw one car. It was sublime.
Travis left on Friday [...]
That robocall I posted about earlier also got posted on Orange Politics, where it got a lot of reads and a lot of comments fairly quickly. I started a tumblr blog to be able to easily post the audio of the robocall.
At the Daily Grind just now the young lady ahead of me had a stack of brightly-colored flash cards. On the flash cards were the amino acids. Seeing that brought back a lot of NCSSM memories again. This past weekend I did a fair bit of cleaning/purging and ended up parting with physics, cell biology, [...]
did some canvassing for Obama, enjoyed the rain.
had a new flavor at locopops.
played a bit of Mario Party with frijole & friends on his new, massive TV.
got my 30-track fix from emusic, including Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
helped a friend of my mom’s clean out for a move. Got about 20 free paperbacks out [...]
I think the most awesome part about this video was finding it via a twitter from my boss:
Ten things to do before I die
Public figures who make me want to puke
Jobs I should have learned a lesson from but didn’t
Crushes I wish I’d acted on
This list
Top ten strangest RT tickets I’ve received
Out-of-date wiki pages I should have updated or deleted
Bad picture taken with my phone:
Stylish! Shape!
I’m in the middle of finishing up some work that’s still crushing me, so I’ll make this quick.
See the bottom of the left sidebar for a new google reader widget I added yesterday. Google is getting more social, it would seem. If you use blogger they make it push-button simple for you to [...]
I haz a burrowing cat. Generalizing a bit (and building on previous work), here’s my hypothesis in graphical form:
And to help guarantee that I’m right, witness:
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