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retrospectacle | March 26, 2007Not sure if there's any other watchers of the show "24" who read, but me and my friends usually get together on Mondays to watch it and enjoy some home cooking. We take turns cooking, and its my week this week. I was trying to think up something to whip up, and came across this website: Cooking for Engineers.
One thing I'd really love to be is a better cook, because I love to eat and eat out WAY too much. I liked their recipe for beer can chicken, which is an ingenious way to roast a chicken (and as evidenced by a taste test, doesn't really even need beer). I also read about how to make…
clock | March 25, 2007
It's been decades ago, but yes, I have done it myself. Detailed instructions. Do not read around meal-time.
retrospectacle | March 24, 2007Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream has been known for both delicious treats (Cherry Garcia....mmmmm) as well political activism. They have a fun application on their site which allows you to slice up the budget as YOU see fit. What are your priorities?
Whats even more fun (well, kinda) is that you get to compare your ideal budget with the real federal budget in all its *cough* glory. My results are below (not to say this is exactly what I would end up with but.......)
clock | March 16, 2007Osvaldo_Cavandoli aka Cava, the author of the amazing and hillarious cartoon La Linea, one of my childhood favourites, has died about two weeks ago. Here is the very first episode:
There are several more available on YouTube (I just watched about a dozen and laughed out loud).
Unlike most of the episodes seen on TV this one below is definitely NSFW (i.e., if your work does not find this safe, you should find a saner employer):
The subtitles, in Croatian, are hillarious if you do not understand Italian.
[Hat-tip: cicciosax]
retrospectacle | March 15, 2007I have weird music tastes, which sometimes makes it hard to find new artists that really knock my socks off. I've often wondered why no one creates a musical "family tree" of related bands and music, and I've found some passable attempts, but none so useful as Pandora.
The point of the website is to find more bands and music that you'll like, using music you already like, and create a radio station for you. Pandora was created by the Music Genome Project, a group of musical sorts who wanted to create a way to analyze music on a basic level, as if musical attributes were "genes."
We ended up…
clock | March 13, 2007You'll have to work fast - there are only five days left - but you can win some nice big prizes if you make the winning design for the Threadless T-shirts with the theme "Science Is Culture".
clock | March 13, 2007If, like me, you don't give a rat's behind for the basketball tournaments and brackets but are interested in science, then go ahead and make your predictions in the Science Spring Showdown 2007 tournament over on World's Fair. Various Sciencebloggers will write "Basics"-style posts in defense of one concept or another, you will vote for winners and if you correctly guess all the winners - well, I don't know what will happen, but you will certainly become immensely famous around these parts, at least.
So, donwload the brackets, fill out your choices and follow the tournament at the Press…
clock | March 8, 2007Jonah points to link by Kottke to series of close-up photos of insects splatered on windshields. The images are truly cool and not gross at all.
This immediately reminded me of a funny, yet excellent book I read a few years ago, That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to Insects of North America by Mark Hostetler, which helps you identify the insects by the shape, size and color of the splatter they leave on your windshield.
stoat | March 5, 2007Paul Holland is floating around in the briny and writing it up. Lucky him (now the storms are over)
clock | February 28, 2007A few are under the fold, but many more can be found here.
This one is older, back when Chris Mooney was in Raleigh for a book reading:
Prof.Steve Steve with Larry Moran at the Friday dinner just before the Science Blogging Conference:
Larry and Jane Moran:
Prof. Steve Steve watching Janet blogging:
Color scheme fits with the Darwin shirt:
With Rep. Brad Miller on Saturday night at the end of the Conference:
Meeting Paddington Bear:
Though I guess Steve Steve would prefer to meet Amanda Panda instead:
stoat | February 24, 2007Sounds like a dumb idea and it seems to be one. So I looked up the Global Warming entry. Which I suppose you could compare to the wiki version. Unlike the wiki version the Consa one is just about fact free (even a graph of temperature change is obviously to liberal for them) and not really even very funny, though it does contain It should be noted that these scientists are motivated by a need for grant money in their field of climatology. Therefore, their work can not be considered unbiased, though no more than any scientist in any other field .[4]. Also, these scientists are mostly liberal…
clock | February 19, 2007More badges have been added. Number #48 has written ME all over:
Before coming to the States and getting into grad school in Zoology, I was in vet school and I spent endless hours with my arm up to the shoulder inside horses' recta (and sometimes cows') both treating sick ones and doing some experiments in excercise physiology (that's horses, not cows). Later, I probed the quail rectally (really, cloacally) on a number of occasions. I am a sicko!
clock | February 16, 2007I use it all the time. Today's Merriam-Webster Word Of The Day:
grok \GROCK\ verb
: to understand profoundly and intuitively
Example sentence:
No matter how many times I try to explain it, my grandmother just can't grok what a blog is and why anyone would want to read one.
Did you know?
"Grok" may be the only English word that derives from Martian. Yes, we do mean the language of the planet Mars. No, we're not getting spacey; we've just ventured into the realm of science fiction. "Grok" was introduced in Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. The book's…
clock | February 15, 2007Not every bloggers' meetup has to be talking about blogging. We can also just get together and have fun. And so we did last night. A bunch of us went bowling.
On Wednesday nights they have great family rates. We got four lanes - one for kids, three for adults. My daughter tends to start out slow and get better and better as the time goes. In the end, she got some tens.
I am the opposite - my very first practice shot was a strike and I won the first game, but I get progressively more and more tired. Anton won the second game easily. In the end, my wrist and fingers were hurting so…
clock | February 14, 2007Considering the name of this blog, you may not be surprised that I am a sucker for clocks and watches. If I had more walls and more money, I'd collect them by dozens (hundreds?). Grow-a-Brain has been collecting links to sites showing all kinds of clocks.
I wish I could have something like this, this or this for the house and this for the pocket.
clock | February 13, 2007
And there's many, many more here. Do not look on empty stomach. I was just about to eat an eclair, but now I think I'll wait a little....
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