I just realized Cognitive Daily, one of the many awesome things on Science Blogs, is done by some people I know from Davidson. Remi and I once chaperoned their kids for a week in the mountains. In addition to being cool sciency types they are also a family of double-reed players.
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01:44:33 PM,
Monday 12 June 2006
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Because I can't remember the last time I posted an online quiz:
Your results:
You are Derrial Book (Shepherd)
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Even though you are holy you have a mysterious past. You aren't married. Have you taken a vow of celibacy?  |
Click here to take the "Which Serenity character am I?" quiz...
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04:25:30 PM, Saturday 10 June 2006
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Home. Remi and Tuxedo are delighted and delightful. Pictures and stories to follow.
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04:00:21 PM,
Saturday 10 June 2006
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High around 59. Low around 43. 70% chance of rain. Rinse and repeat.
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03:54:55 PM,
Tuesday 23 May 2006
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NABS, the freshwater ecologists professional society, has scanned and made available to the public online their complete macroinvertebrate and algae slide libraries. Very, very cool images.
I am in the office today due to thunderstorms and impending doom and I am very happy about that.
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07:56:45 AM,
Friday 19 May 2006
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The Dilemmas
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09:58:34 PM,
Saturday 13 May 2006
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If any DC area Johnnies want to attend the Bacon Seminar offered at the Folger Library next fall and absorb it and send it to me in a bottle, that would be awesome.
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08:42:23 AM,
Friday 12 May 2006
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We got a review! Off to the field. No Internets until this weekend.
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08:18:08 AM,
Thursday 11 May 2006
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We saw Hoot tonight. I'm a huge Carl Hiaasen fan, but never read his kids' book. The movie feels like somebody took a great Carl Hiaasen book, wrote a movie script, then somebody said, "wait, kids won't like that, we've got to simplify and dumb down." It was enjoyable but just a little too simple. The Florida scenery was awesome. Since unlike Remi I did not grow up in Miami and I do not think Jimmy Buffett is the devil, I really enjoyed his kid-friendly soundtrack and his appearance as the science teacher (except I really could have done without his "Werewolves of London" cover. I'm not really sure what that was doing in there.) Oh and the burrowing owls are as cute as promised.
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09:41:22 PM,
Friday 5 May 2006
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Today I completed my 30th Yourself Fitness workout. It has been pretty of fun, and I have gotten in fairly ridiculously good shape in about 6 weeks. I like the mix of strength training, pilates, and yoga, but I tend to be less cheerful when Maya wants me to do aerobics, because I still hate to dance and aerobics is just too much like dancing. So I've been running in addition to or instead of using the "game" to get the aerobic workout without all the bouncing to the beat.
I naturally have weak core muscles, no flexibility, and strong arms and legs, so being able to have workouts that are exactly right for different needs is pretty awesome. An AI probably isn't enough external motivation for somebody who doesn't want to exercise at all, but worrying about Maya scolding me has been enough incentive to get me to do it when I don't feel like it. For other people who want to exercise but who are not "health club" (or university gym) type people or who like to run but want to work out other muscle groups as well, I would highly recommend it.
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01:16:38 PM,
Thursday 4 May 2006
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I found an awesome blog by a 50 something weight lifting gardening maniac in Lousiana. Her son and his SO have been convinced by the Man to get married and have decided to do it in a doughnut shop. That is all.
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09:36:13 AM,
Thursday 4 May 2006
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Exposing Anti-Choice Abortion Clinics Even though I never liked them very much, I had always assumed that "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" were staffed by medical professionals and provided pre-natal care. This story reveals the truth.
They give people home pregnancy tests rather than performing far more accurate lab tests. They are staffed only by untrained volunteers who perform sonograms to show the woman her fetus, but are unable to look for ectopic pregnancy or complications which could endanger the woman's (and fetus's) life. The point of a sonogram isn't to "look at the baby" it's to examine the health of the pregnancy and it takes a trained professional to do that.
They make desperate women think they have received pre-natal care, but provide nothing of the sort. A lack of proper pre-natal care is the number one cause of maternal death.
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08:36:44 AM,
Tuesday 2 May 2006
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Former acting head of the FDA, former UGA professor, and good old fashioned jerk Lester Crawford is under investigation both for his financial improprieties while head of the FDA (he sold off stocks in pharmaceutical companies based on decisions he made) and for his mismanagement of the Plan B decision. Hurrah!
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11:21:09 AM,
Monday 1 May 2006
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Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain,
Wheat that in the dark earth many days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.
In the grave they laid him, love whom men had slain,
Thinking that never he would wake again.
Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green,
Forth he came at Easter, like the risen grain,
He that for three days in the grave had lain.
Quick from the dead my risen Lord is seen:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.
When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain,
Thy touch can call us back to life again;
Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been:
Love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.
Words by John Crum
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08:46:28 AM,
Thursday 27 April 2006
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Check it out: Flickr SJC Croquet Cluster It's definitely the next best thing to being there.
The only question I have left is, did they have the misogynist bestiality postcard available as a t-shirt?
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08:54:30 AM,
Tuesday 25 April 2006
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The Duke Car Theft Case
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04:31:57 PM,
Monday 24 April 2006
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Durham blogger Pam interviews David Englin, the impressive Virginia state rep (and Air Force veteran) who stood up for gay rights on the floor of the state legislature.
I am blessed with a beautiful and brilliant wife who is the love of my life. In June, Shayna and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, and I would fight with every ounce of my strength anything that would threaten my marriage. So I would like to know, how exactly civil unions and domestic partnerships and other similar arrangements threaten my marriage?
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11:35:32 AM,
Monday 24 April 2006
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So...who won?
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09:01:34 AM,
Monday 24 April 2006
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Slashdot Personality Disorder Yes, it's a comment on the post I linked to awhile ago, but oh my goodness this is so extremely correct.
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12:07:39 PM,
Thursday 20 April 2006
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The Down Side of Slashdot A nice column about the way internet geeks tend to treat women online.
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08:51:26 AM,
Thursday 20 April 2006
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Another cool Big Bang to humanity timeline (now with more jumpy frogs)
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12:18:54 PM,
Monday 17 April 2006
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When in our music God is glorified,
and adoration leaves no room for pride,
it is as though the whole creation cried
Alleluia!
How often, making music, we have found
a new dimension in the world of sound,
as worship moved us to a more profound
Alleluia!
So has the Church, in liturgy and song,
in faith and love, through centuries of wrong,
borne witness to the truth in every tongue,
Alleluia!
And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night
when utmost evil strove against the Light?
Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight,
Alleluia!
Let every instrument be tuned for praise!
Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise!
And may God give us faith to sing always
Alleluia!
Words: Fred Pratt Green
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08:32:16 AM,
Sunday 16 April 2006
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On Wednesday (the first day of Passover, incidentally) the Baptist teenagers were going around knocking on doors and handing out pamphlets in our neighborhood. One young man grabbed my arm and said, "Hey! Can I give you this!"
Today it's guys in suits who won't say who they're with except that they're doing "Christian work". I'm betting they're from the Pentacostal church on the corner.
As always, I feel like I need to go around and apologize to all my neighbors (Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, not even vaguely religious, etc) on the behalf of all Protestants everywhere who don't go around bothering people and handing them fliers.
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10:10:37 AM,
Saturday 15 April 2006
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My (sole) lab mate successfully passed her prelims this morning. After a celebration with the adjoining labs, she and her girlfriend have gone out to lunch, leaving me with half a bottle of champagne and work to do. Reminds me of the day after Croquet, you know, back when Croquet was on Saturday and some of us would try to do work on Sunday.
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12:44:59 PM,
Friday 14 April 2006
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An interesting proposal to decrease income taxes by increasing environmental taxes
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11:38:04 AM,
Friday 14 April 2006
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Strange fact: Duke University, which was founded by and maintains an affiliation with Methodists, whose motto is Eruditio et Religio, and whose campus is focused around a gigantic gothic cathedral and its associate divinity school, is not closed in observation of Good Friday. The University of North Carolina system, however, is observing the Christian holidays by being closed Thursday thru Monday. This means when I was at NC State yesterday getting change for a twenty was impossible, which made me sad.
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11:00:35 AM,
Friday 14 April 2006
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ATF agents visiting UGA for a conference attempt to stomp out the ninja menace
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02:22:51 PM,
Wednesday 12 April 2006
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A wonderful picture. Amnesty Now
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08:12:34 AM,
Wednesday 12 April 2006
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I forgot to mention it when Julia asked the question about trash, but Sarah just reminded me again, the last time we went to the comicbook store I acquired the first volume of the Babysitters Club in comic form. It was just released and it is really quite awesome (although Remi complained that it feels dated because of the total lack of computers).
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12:44:15 PM,
Tuesday 11 April 2006
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Life is Long... I think that The Happy Feminist is my new favorite blog.
The best thing to remember when you're in a rut and feel as though you have to fix things is that whatever you may have screwed up is transient. Life is not short, as people always say. Life, in fact, is quite long.
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09:46:17 AM,
Tuesday 11 April 2006
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Woo! Patriarchy!
Which team is the patriarchy? Both. Duh!
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09:40:54 AM,
Tuesday 11 April 2006
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The New York Times had an article recently about the United Church of Christ and it's latest ad campaign, as well as their open argument with the somewhat secretive Institute for Religion and Democracy, a group funding and pushing dissent within mainstream Christian denominations. Among other things, they have funded the founding of groups of conservatives within the denominations (usually with the word "renewal" in their name), encouraging them to withhold funds from the denomination, and encouraging hostile takeover or schism.
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09:55:30 AM,
Monday 10 April 2006
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PZ Myers nicely explains how Plan B works and how it has nothing to do with abortion. If the nutties would spend a little less time attacking biology education and a little more time getting it, we would all be better off.
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10:51:07 AM,
Friday 7 April 2006
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This statement and this letter make me feel better about Duke.
Compounding and intensifying these issues of race and gender, they include concerns about the deep structures of inequality in our society—inequalities of wealth, privilege, and opportunity (including educational opportunity), and the attitudes of superiority those inequalities breed. And they include concerns that, whether they intend to or not, universities like Duke participate in this inequality and supply a home for a culture of privilege.
I still despise the undergraduate culture of snobbery, smugness, and alcohol (and the graduate culture to the extent that it reflects the same things, which it does). But at least, maybe, finally, the faculty are going to try to address the cultural problems instead of just pretending that this is a great place.
This list of people who've agreed to be on the committees is pretty impressive.
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08:01:10 AM,
Thursday 6 April 2006
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Is it too soon for me to start advocating Russ Feingold in 2008?
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04:50:19 PM,
Wednesday 5 April 2006
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The Happy Feminist gives us Paul Carnes' Ten Commandments for Religious Liberals
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11:16:32 AM,
Wednesday 5 April 2006
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