More Tech Stuff
Comments are working again, however Blacklist isn’t. Please ignore any spam comments as we fix the problem.
That would, of course, be the royal we.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Monday, November 29, 2004
Commenting Fall Down and Go Boom
Since installation of MT Blacklist, commenting seems to be broken. Yippee.
Nothing, Really
Sorry about the low quality and/or lack of posting. Between Thanksgiving, our anniversary, and trying to finish my paper, time is of a premium, and available slacking time just isn’t going to involve the computer.
Good news is that I’m pretty pleased with my paper, and hope to turn it in this week.
Bad news is that [...]
Saturday, November 27, 2004
Up to Date
Just updated MT to the latest version. The comment spam was really starting to annoy me, and a fun hobby just shouldn’t be annoying.
As far as I can tell, things are working properly, but if they aren’t please let me know.
Friday, November 26, 2004
First Snow!
One more thing for me to be thankful for yesterday… SNOW!
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Science Meets the Slayer
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND THE “BUFFY PARADIGMâ€
This is fantastic for so many different reasons. It’s also quite readable. (Assuming that you’re used to reading scientific/technical type papers)
(via Making Light)
My Geeky Stuff
For absolutely no reason, a list of my favorite DS9 episodes. (It’s not really done, but that’s enough amusement for today.)
Scribble Scribble Scribble
Sorry about the virtual silence yesterday. I went through two complete drafts of my paper, and made a batch of cookies.
The original receipe is double chocolate cookies, but for Michael I substituted peanut butter chips for chocolate chips. They’re really good, but I only baked half the batch–froze the rest. They’re best the first [...]
Monday, November 22, 2004
Bakedown
Ahhhh…. Break.
Still have to work, but with the students gone, there’s hardly anyone here to ask questions, and I’m sure that will be even more so as the week continues. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a lot done this week, although I may end up being distracted by the bright shiny object that is [...]
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Planetarium
Friday night we went to the planetarium with my parents. Every year they have a special show for the holidays “Tis the Season.”
Michael, who knows more about astronomy than I do (I’m lucky to be able to find the big dipper), said he already knew everything they told us in the show, but I didn’t, [...]
Friday, November 19, 2004
Let Sleeping Students Lie
From Improbable Research:
One of the dilemmas all professors occasionally face in the classroom is what to do about sleeping students. Should we ignore them and let them snooze away? Or should we awaken them?
Posters
E is for our Empire
Where the sun never sets
The larger we make it
The bigger it gets
Just an astounding number of posters on everything from Cubans Welcome US Troops to “A Maid and a Million Men” to Is your washroom breeding bolsheviks?
G is the Game
We preserve with such care
To shoot, as it gracefully
Flies through the air
Thanks [...]
Presented
My presentation is over. Hopefully my professor is the one determining my grade, not the guests.
My topic was the legality and ethics of physician assisted suicide, and my position was oppposition to physician assisted suicide.
The guests were two members of the WV End of Life Care Center, and a Community Medicine faculty member who seemed [...]
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Violence in Children’s Programming!
The tragedy!
A Bristol Royal Hospital for Children team found the frequency of nursery rhyme violence was more than 10 times greater than in pre-9pm programmes.
What Avoidance Behavior?
pericat wrote a quiz.
(more…)
Today…
I give my presentation for my Legal/Ethical Issues in Public Health today.
20 minutes for 35 slides.
Good think I talk fast.
It’s not like I didn’t try to pare things down, it’s just that there’s a lot of information that I needed to cover, and there was really very little that I could leave out. For every [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Glimpses, Driving By
I had a doctor’s appointment this afternoon, and although the appointment didn’t last as long as expected, I went home anyway. Along my route home is a McDonald’s. It’s set a bit back from the road, with the parking lot out front. It’s really a terrible location for pulling in and out of traffic, but [...]
Public Health Enemy Number One
I think Hardees qualifies as public health enemy number one.
1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.
Who on earth would buy and eat something like that? Makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about it.
And the rest of their menu isn’t much better:
Big Country Breakfast Platter with Country Steak: 1150 calories
Big Country Breakfast Platter with [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
The Pitfalls of Biotechnology
Speaking of things that are addictive…
The World did a segment on Round-Up resistent coca in Columbia. They interviewed Joshua Davis who wrote an article for Wired on the subject.
Over the past three years, rumors of a new strain of coca have circulated in the Colombian military. The new plant, samples of which are spread out [...]
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