Well, I’m back in Reno for the last 5 days of this semester. I have just a few more secondaries to complete, two chemical synthesis labs to write up, various semester-end tasks to complete, and the list goes on. The good: * I bought a … Read More →
Monthly Archives: November 2004
In Colorado
I’m posting here from Littleton, Colorado for a day of Thanksgiving with the family. Hope you are having fun and eating well wherever you are. I’m heading to the Aspen Grove Apple Store tomorrow for the “special day” of shopping. Maybe we’ll get free stuff! … Read More →
Mad at Myself
I am at this weird stage, a state of being where I know that I have so much to do and so much on the line, yet bringing myself to complete tasks is extremely difficult. I procrastinate, finding anything but my work to occupy my … Read More →
Caught!
I guess, I had better stop printing all that fake money on my research group’s “new color laser printer”:http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/18972-236251-236268-15077-f51-315849.html: “the government can track it”:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=4&u=/pcworld/20041122/tc_pcworld/118664! I kid, of course, but does this measure strike anyone else as rather moot given that we “cannot even load pictures … Read More →
Excellent Media Insight
I meant to post sooner on this excellent article by the “Columbia Journalism Review”:http://www.cjr.org/, “Blinded by Science”:http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/6/mooney-science.asp. In it, author Chris Mooney discusses examples and the various problems the media faces in attempting to achieve a “balanced” story. Right off the bat, he discusses Los … Read More →
Foment
# To promote the growth of; incite. # To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation. abet, _agitate_, arouse, brew, cultivate, encourage, excite, foster, goad, *incite*, instigate, nurse, nurture, promote, quicken, raise, set, set on, spur, start, stimulate, stir up, whip up
Computer, Begin Recording…
Formal lab writeup: Synthesis, Characterization and Activity of “Grubb’s Catalyst”:http://www.cce.caltech.edu/faculty/grubbs/.
Can I do it?
Is it possible? Three medical school secondary (supplemental) applications in one day? (Well, OK, part of last night and today.) Check back tomorrow to find out.
Lascivious
bawdy, blue, bodily, _carnal_, coarse, crude, dirty, evil-minded, fast, filthy, fleshly, gross, hard core, heavy, horny, hot, hot for, immoral, incontinent, indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, low-down, lubricous, lustful, nasty, obscene, off-color, offensive, orgiastic, pornographic, prurient, randy, *raunchy*, raw, ribald, rough, salacious, scurrilous, sensual, … Read More →
Spamtastic!
They never stop! What do these automatons hope to accomplish? Better PageRank? Certainly not increased traffic, as their fake comments are a bunch a crap. Its an annoying nuisance to say the least, and I look forward to WordPress v1.3′s new anti-spam capabilities. I currently … Read More →