Oh...and...AAAARRRRR!!!
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09:26:40 AM,
Friday 19 September 2003
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"Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President. Sorry you didn't go when you had the chance."
I'm proud to say I voted for Max Cleland. Perhaps (if he hadn't lost to a draft-dodging asshole who questioned the patriotism of a man who gave two legs and one arm for his country) his vote could have been the one that saved us from this mess.
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08:59:41 AM,
Friday 19 September 2003
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Last night I dreamed that I was trying to explain to President Bartlett that he didn't need to make a database to keep track of his daughters because he only has three, and if he insisted on making the database, it wouldn't need to have a "kidnapped?" checkbox because they're not going to get kidnapped that often...
Perhaps, tomorrow, I will not work on my database or fall asleep in front of the tv.
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05:50:57 PM,
Thursday 18 September 2003
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The WUSA has dissolved. I guess I'm really never going to be a professional soccer player.
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07:17:26 PM,
Monday 15 September 2003
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This weekend I learned to build the database I desperately need, and it was thanks to this book, which is, quite seriously, the best written teach-yourself book I've run across.
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01:24:36 PM,
Monday 15 September 2003
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Happy Birthday, Becca!
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08:22:05 AM,
Friday 12 September 2003
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My brother's birthday is December 7th, once known as Pearl Harbor Day. Now, it's just known as Lee's Birthday.
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09:10:31 AM,
Thursday 11 September 2003
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While I was at the ESA meeting in Savannah, I worked off the cost of attendance by working AV at a few sessions. I was assigned to those sessions and, while they were not ones that I would have chosen to attend, for the most part they were pretty interesting. The one exception was a session devoted to research in Biosphere 2. You may remember Biosphere 2 as the place that crazy people tried to live to somehow simulate life on earth or something. After that was a collosal failure (among other things, they almost killed themselves due to lake of oxygen and build-up of nitrogen in the air), the crazy rich guy who built the place turned it into a research facility which he has been leasing to Columbia University.
Biosphere 2 was not designed as a scientific facility and, despite the hype, doesn't do a particularly good job of simulating "Biosphere 1". One of the biggest problems is that the glass does not allow the transmittance of UV light, which, among other things, prevents the presents of many insects, including bees. The only thing it has going for it as a research facility is the ability to control ambient temperature, air pressure, humidity, and air chemistry. So, I listened to 4 hours of experiments manipulating one or more of these factors in a stand of pine trees (with few to no invertebrates or microbes in the air or soil) and using them to make predictions about global climate change. And it was just bad. So, I was not surprised to hear that Columbia is ending its work in Biosphere 2.
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04:42:56 PM,
Wednesday 10 September 2003
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My desk is clean.
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11:50:49 AM,
Tuesday 9 September 2003
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An interesting take on science and religion in the Guardian including a couple of jabs at Richard Dawkins, which I always in enjoy.
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09:11:07 AM,
Monday 8 September 2003
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I think I remember when Paul Hill shot Dr. Britton and James Barrett outside of a women's clinic in Pensacola in 1994, that it was mentioned in the St. John's Reporter that Barrett, the volunteer escort, was a Johnny. I can't find much information about the victims (everybody just wants to talk about the murderer who was murdered by the state last night). Does anybody else remember this?
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09:25:35 AM,
Thursday 4 September 2003
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The recall is not a California issue -- it is an attack on American democracy. I stand with California voters who are fighting for democracy by opposing the recall.
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02:03:52 PM,
Wednesday 3 September 2003
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thbbbbbbbbtttt!!!
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12:10:28 PM,
Wednesday 3 September 2003
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After a few more depressing conversations about job hunting, this made my day. The American people aren't as clueless as Bush et al think.
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08:51:34 PM,
Monday 1 September 2003
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If you have not spent July or August in the South, you may not be aware that blooming kudzu smells like grape drink. It does.
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09:35:00 PM,
Saturday 30 August 2003
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No, Jerry! Say it ain't so!
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10:00:52 AM,
Saturday 30 August 2003
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John Agresto, former president of SJC-SF, has been named Chief Advisor on Higher Education for Iraq. I have no idea what this means, or what to think of it, but I thought I'd share. The only online story I've seen so far is in Chronicle of Higher Education (which I can read, and you probably can too if you're on a college campus, but it's probably not worth subscribing to unless you're looking for a job in academia).
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08:44:06 AM,
Saturday 30 August 2003
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"I have no illusions that Dean is a true progressive," said one young graduate student who describes himself as a leftist, "but I don't care. I just want to beat Bush. If Dean has the momentum, I say, go for it." Pretty much exactly.
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01:01:26 PM,
Wednesday 27 August 2003
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My brother and his wife are moving to Belgium.
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08:02:21 PM,
Sunday 24 August 2003
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I have to wonder how Bush et al sleep at night knowing they are responsible for the death of a man who was 5000 times a better person than them.
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09:07:51 AM,
Saturday 23 August 2003
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I've bought plane tickets for the Stream Restoration meeting at UMD in October. I feel bourgeois for flying to DC twice in a year, especially considering how many times I've made the drive, but my car is a lot older now and somebody else is paying for it. Besides, my enjoyment of our meetings in Santa Barbara is pretty bourgeois as well. So, anyway, I will be in College Park October 9-13 if anybody in the DC/Annapolis area might want to be nice to me and get me out of College Park.
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09:03:39 AM,
Saturday 23 August 2003
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There's a new student in our office. I was asking her about her classes and she told me about Watershed Conservation and how many new people there are in there and how diverse their backgrounds are: "One guy said he'd studied classics. I'm not sure what he's doing here." So then I had to say that I know him and we went to the same school and got the same degree.
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09:02:45 AM,
Wednesday 20 August 2003
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I've applied to graduate in May, 2004. Also, I saw Andrew Hunt today. He was in Watershed Conservation, easily my least favorite class, poor guy.
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04:37:21 PM,
Monday 18 August 2003
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Some extremely wealthy alumnus gave St. John's a boatload of money.
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01:24:50 PM,
Friday 15 August 2003
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To be fair and balanced, the Onion article is not true of at least one Republican. Governor Bob Riley of Alabama wants to cut taxes on the poor and raise them on the rich to fix Alabama's terrible public schools. And he wants to do all this because he's a Christian and he thinks that's what his faith compels him to do. His leading opposition--why the Christian Coalition, of course, who much prefer their "Christian" Republicans to behave as in the Onion article. .
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08:50:24 AM,
Friday 15 August 2003
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Republicans Introduce Economic Equality Bill For Fun Of Shooting It Down
WASHINGTON, DC—Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed H.R. 2093: the Economic Equality Initiative, with the express purpose of shooting it down "just for kicks" Tuesday. "H.R. 2093 will level the economic playing field, spreading the wealth among the rich and poor," said Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX), visibly fighting back snickers. "We must pass this bill to stop the fat cats from getting fatter while the average Joe struggles to make ends meet. Also, I'm the Queen of Bavaria." Following 10 minutes of uproarious laughter, the congressmen stepped out of the chamber to smoke cigars lit with a bill that would allocate $115 million to clean up hazardous waste sites.
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11:09:57 AM,
Wednesday 13 August 2003
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Something's different.
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09:30:30 AM,
Wednesday 13 August 2003
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I don't have a tagline, but I really want to say that my blog is fair and balanced. Thank you.
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02:43:07 PM,
Tuesday 12 August 2003
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It's a pretty bad time for urban stream ecology in Athens. Some charming individuals released 6,000 gallons of petroleum into the Middle Oconee.
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12:20:30 PM,
Monday 11 August 2003
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Our foster cats have arrived. They are extremely shy, but I think it's going to be pretty cool.
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07:52:24 AM,
Sunday 10 August 2003
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Savannah is a nice place. Annapolis but bigger and tropical. It seems like they're holding a ton of conferences in their new convention center, so do go if you get the chance.
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06:45:35 AM,
Saturday 9 August 2003
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Our phone now works (same number as before). The house is awesome. I'm leaving for ESA in Savannah tomorrow morning and I'll be back Friday from the beach...er...meeting.
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04:25:08 PM,
Saturday 2 August 2003
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If you've been trying to call me, I've been have a surprisingly similar problem to Remi's, and it should probably be resolved about the same time.
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07:55:50 PM,
Wednesday 30 July 2003
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Blogging from the new Student Learning Center. You might think the glowing description is a preposterous come-on, but I wish there were photographs, too. This is an amazing building. I will definitely be coming here for an escape from Ecology.
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07:01:08 PM,
Tuesday 29 July 2003
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At some point today, the phone will get turned back on and Remi will find out that we can move in tomorrow and that I'm a big jerk and I'm really sorry.
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01:26:43 PM,
Tuesday 29 July 2003
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The major fire in the UGA main library Wednesday has been ruled arson. The resident bibliophiles may want to join me in outrage. I can understand wanting to burn down a corporate headquarters, but who wants to hurt books?
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08:59:50 AM,
Friday 25 July 2003
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