Liz's Bloglet - Friday 14 June 2002

The North Carolina High School Track and Cross Country Webpage If the web had been a big deal when I was in high school I would have thought that this ruled. _
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11:10:56 PM, Friday 14 June 2002

Remi's seeing Cake and I'm googling people who are better off forgotten. Maybe somewhere tonight somebody is googling me, finding this page, and wondering why they bothered. _
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10:25:13 PM, Friday 14 June 2002

I read this article in The New Republic when I was home last week. It confirms everything I've ever thought about Ari. _
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08:20:30 AM, Friday 14 June 2002

More Buffy than you can shake a stick at. _
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07:39:29 AM, Friday 14 June 2002

To begin our summer of planning to improve the stream on campus we are making a field trip to see another campus where stream restoration is taking place. Unfortunately, it is not Berkeley, which has had a major success in Strawberry Creek, particularly from a biological standpoint. No, we are going to Raleigh, to NC State. I'm off to see the Rosgenites.

I wish I had time to see Deb and Mike, or even briefly swing by good ole Mission Valley, but we're going to be gone less than 48 hours and much of that will be in transit. _
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03:58:19 PM, Monday 10 June 2002

I've been having a fun weekend visiting with my folks. I've gotten to see Becca a couple of times which has rocked. We partook of all of the wonders of North Mecklenburg: both chain restaurants and bowling. Last night our family walked around the corner to, of all places, the nuclear plant, where the Charlotte Symphony played a pops concert on a peninsula out into the lake. It was fun, music and small children and picnic-folks and people on boats. They played Stars and Stripes Forever for, as Becca put it, "the top secret encore" (which she called before the show started) and there was much glory for the piccolos. _
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09:51:51 AM, Sunday 9 June 2002

The Wye Oak fell down last night. Another of Maryland's Great Trees gone. _
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11:18:53 AM, Friday 7 June 2002

The Tempo hit 100,000 yesterday. _
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08:48:04 AM, Friday 7 June 2002

Did they tell you it was set in stone
That you'd end up alone?
Use your years to psyche you out:
You're too old to care, you're too young to count

Did they tell you you would come undone
When you tried to touch the sun?
Undermine the underground,
You're too old to care, you're too young to count. _
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10:30:01 PM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

I was putting away things in the lab that I had washed before I went to Pittsburgh. There was a squirt bottle, a perfectly ordinary lab squirt bottle that I had not used much because the tip was very small and so not much water came out. So I went to put it away and the whole squirty end was full of something. That something was ants. Hundreds of ants. And more ant eggs. Multiple grad students attempted to remove the ants, including an algae person, a metals person, and a nutrients person. Finally I just filled the bottle with water and beat it against the table until they all drowned.

There is no rational explanation for this. It must have been spontaneous generation. _
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04:02:51 PM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

Bush knows what the American People think. _
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11:44:05 AM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

From the "I couldn't make up this stuff if I tried" Department comes an excerpt from a memo I received today:

"Through the distribution of this memorandum, I am asking that each of us
begins to use different terminology as one means of informing our
students of our expectations. Beginning now, each new entering group of
freshmen should be called by its expected year of graduation. For
example, our Orientation staff already has committed to refer to the
incoming group as the Class of 2006. Furthermore, each of us should
begin to use classifications such as first-year, second-year,
third-year, and fourth-year student in place of the terms freshman,
sophomore, junior, and senior. With these changes, we hope that
students will not feel comfortable using fifth- (or sixth-) year senior.
With respect to University policies and requirements, the definitions
of these new classifications will be the same as for the old labels of
freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior."

Yeah, that'll teach 'em. _
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08:46:42 AM, Tuesday 4 June 2002

It's now noon, so I think the status of my officemates has changed from "sleeping in" to "playing hooky". Why didn't I think of that? _
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12:09:58 PM, Monday 3 June 2002

I forgot to mention, because it happened Wednesday morning which was a rather long time ago, that Robert Kennedy, Jr gave the plenary address. He rocked. For those who don't know, he is a lawyer whose biggest successes have been working with the original Riverkeeper organization on the Hudson River to sue everybody who ever did anything bad to the Hudson (including is a very long list of corporations, the Army Corps, and the EPA.) Due to the successes of the original group, there are now Riverkeepers and Creekkeepers all over the world. They get people out into the water and they're watching the watchers.

He was followed by former Senator Paul Simon of red bow-tie fame, who is also a pretty impressive man, but not nearly so good a speaker. _
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12:56:23 PM, Sunday 2 June 2002

I'm back from Pittsburgh. It was a whole lot of fun. I got to meet lots of big names and watch my friends give awesome presentations. Theoretically, I got some ideas for my own presenting next year. The highlight was probably the four hour cruise on the three rivers. It was very pretty. Oh, and there was an open bar on the boat. I just had a couple of mixed drinks, but several of my colleagues drank as though they might never get to drink again, which was interesting to watch. Actually, they did the same thing every other night, when they had to pay for the drinks.

Our meeting will be in Athens next year. Which will be pretty crazy. Though it kind of makes sense because we definitely had more people there than any other university. At least I'll be able to sleep in my own bed. And Athens is cheaper and has much better food and music than Pittsburgh. But I don't know exactly where we're going to put 1200 aquatic scientists. And I am on the committee, so it is partially my probalem. _
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09:37:30 AM, Sunday 2 June 2002

I'm off to Pittsburgh to talk about things benthological. _
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04:43:56 PM, Tuesday 28 May 2002

Playing in the dirt for two days is less fun when you have to do it standing over a sink and everything has to be carefully measured. _
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04:43:35 PM, Monday 27 May 2002

I am alone in the Mac lab and one of the imacs just started talking quietly to itself. I'm scared to approach it, so I'm not sure what it's saying. _
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02:41:54 PM, Thursday 23 May 2002

Runoff is bad. So fix that oil leak in your car already. _
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02:24:19 PM, Thursday 23 May 2002

1)Attempt to work on proposal. Proposal reminds me of 10th grade English. I never could figure out how to write 5 paragraph papers exactly they wanted me to.
2)Surf internet
3)Feel guilty
4)Tweak web page
5)Read more Army Corps stuff
6)Tweak web page
7)Surf internet
8)Feel guilty _
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10:57:22 AM, Thursday 23 May 2002

The internet brings large quantities of written word to anybody with a connection and makes searching by keyword easy and expected. Why is the federal government still distributing its publications on paper and microfilm when it thinks about it? I mean, those publications were all done on computer to begin with. Everybody else is doing it. How hard can it be? _
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02:43:06 PM, Wednesday 22 May 2002

Zoe graduated. Yay Zoe! _
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03:28:01 PM, Tuesday 21 May 2002

Stephen Jay Gould died. His books nurtured my interest in biology at SJC, where decent books about science can be hard to come by. _
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10:33:32 AM, Tuesday 21 May 2002

I think that this is the biggest news story since September 11. I think Cynthia McKinney was right. I think the president and his crew are a liars who will do anything, apparently pretty much anything at all, to get what they want. And that's why I hate America so much. _
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02:30:19 PM, Thursday 16 May 2002

On the front page of washingtonpost.com right now is a picture of Nelson Hernandez (SJC-A '99) trying to be a plebe. Front page pictures rarely last long there, but here is his article about the Naval Academy plebe summer, which will hopefully have that particular picture forever. Yes, Mr. Hernandez, you just made my day. _
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01:13:47 PM, Thursday 16 May 2002

So, there's this cult in Central Georgia who call themselves the Nuwabian Nation of Moors. They have a pyramid and palm trees. And we always thought they were vaguely amusing. Well, it turns out they're horrible. Yesterday, their leader was indicted on over 100 counts of sexual abuse of children. _
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03:26:50 PM, Wednesday 15 May 2002

Now available in blue! _
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03:11:21 PM, Wednesday 15 May 2002

I can't bring myself to read the reviews of Star Wars. The titles alone suggest all my worst fears are realized. I just really don't want to know. _
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02:02:42 PM, Wednesday 15 May 2002

So College Park, MD changed its name to University Park. That's pretty funny. _
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01:27:05 PM, Tuesday 14 May 2002

From the 'What I did on My Summer Vacation' department, witness the wonders of _
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12:00:01 PM, Tuesday 14 May 2002

If I leave the computer lab, go back to the office, and make one table, I can email my proposal to Judy and go home and not worry about the thing anymore. If I could just manage to leave the computer lab... _
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01:30:26 PM, Monday 13 May 2002

A pretty lame Washington Post story about googling yourself. Googling my full name yields a wealth of information about a librarian at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and the Institute web page with an incorrect email address for me. Googling Liz and my last name yields people's bloglets. I'm so hopelessly uncool. _
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01:11:49 PM, Monday 13 May 2002

What will become of the Baron? _
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09:13:47 AM, Sunday 12 May 2002

Seven black women will graduate from the Citadel tomorrow. And, you know what, the sky didn't fall, the world didn't end, and they're still allowed to be horrible to the knobs. _
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08:16:21 AM, Friday 10 May 2002

If the Glendening/Kennedy-Townsend team wants to run for the White House, that's okay by me. _
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01:49:39 PM, Thursday 9 May 2002

President Bush relaxes the requirements for single-gender public schools. Didn't we decide a while ago that separate-but-equal doesn't work? Why is gender the last acceptable divider? _
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10:20:59 AM, Thursday 9 May 2002

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