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June 19th, 2008
09:44 am - Viking Long Boat
The Washington Post has a video story on a recently constructed long boat sailing the Chesapeake.
I assume this is the one Fred Blonder has described.
(The link might not work. The Post makes it hard to tell while it is the most recent video. I'll fix it when necessary.)
Edit: Found the text version, with a link to the video.
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June 17th, 2008
11:26 am - Happy Birthday To...
Happy belated birthday to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chesuli!
(This belated thing is a trend. I missed my parents' anniversary too.)
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June 15th, 2008
04:41 pm - Birthday Wishes
Happy belated birthday to chameleon613!
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June 13th, 2008
04:33 pm - End Of An Era
K, who started as an intern under me and over 4 years became Lab Coordinator has left the building. He's off to a new job in DC. I wish him well.
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June 6th, 2008
01:39 pm - Traffic Alert - Eastern Shore
Route 50 in Talbot County, Maryland is closed in both directions due to a "hostage situation" in Trappe.
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June 1st, 2008
03:08 pm - New York and the Natural History Museum
I went to the Natural History Museum in New York yesterday. My parents had four free passes to the special exhibits and for the first time in years a friend was willing to meet them. (They have a reputation - deserved at the time - passed from friend to friend. It bugged me that my family and friend lives had separated that much.)
We saw a small part of the museum. werewulf and I saw the planetarium show. All four of us saw the IMAX sea dinosaur movie. I found the human ancestor/fossil exhibit fascinating (they have Lucy and a Flores "Hobbit" among other things) and had my first in person look at a cuneiform tablet. They are small.
We also went to the American Girl store. My parents got the doll matching my niece's name (left out because this is a public post) and I picked up the intro book about her. I can already envision my mom taking my niece and her doll there in 5 years for a tea party at the cafe. It's like a Russian Tea Room/English garden party for little girls and their grandmothers.
It rained but the street umbrellas were cheap. Dinner was at an Italian place a street or two away from Wicked, where my parents at when they saw that show a month or two ago. Very nice and the waiters didn't treat us differently for being dressed more casually than the other patrons.
Left home at 7 am, arrived back after midnight. I'm used to making that drive alone and having to stay overnight. It was good having someone else to do the return driving so I could sleep.
My mom and werewulf got along famously. My dad and I got along well.
Current Location: Home
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May 22nd, 2008
11:44 am - Quicky
Off to Balticon as soon as I get Cat1 into the house. I'm not rushing her - at her age she deserves time in the sun.
Finished all the weekly assignment for Biopsychology. The term will be done when I finish the mid term and final paper - both deadlines extended with an incomplete.
The accent meme is whipping around again. I got the same, almost correct, result as last time.
( Read more... )
But when I'm using my "family accent" (the one that comes out around my aunts and uncles) I get their result:
( Read more... )
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May 21st, 2008
09:23 am - Progress
I am looking out my office window at a Prius taxi.
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May 19th, 2008
09:32 am - Scrabble - Have Set Will Travel
Seeing leemoyer's regular posts about Scrabble has stirred up my desire to play. I've got a still shrink wrapped set dying for use. Anyone else in the Baltimore/Washington/Columbia area interested?
(This is another step in my de-hermiting.)
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May 15th, 2008
10:18 am - Another Thursday
The latest catchup went to May 8.
Most of my new lab-full of computers has arrived and works, despite running Vista. (One of the 7 machines has gone missing in transit. The vendor is tracking it down. Jackie@GovConnection++)
I've been limiting my social contact for over a month. I know why, which helps a little. But it still means missing a lot of dancing.
Much of my superhero knowledge comes from television - after school and saturday morning cartoons and live action. Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Flash stand out. I had forgotten Iron Man until the movie came out, so I didn't notice them using the 60s theme song.
According to IMDB "The theme song from "Iron Man" (1966) is played in several shots (in the casino scene; in Stark's bedroom scene and finally it is the personalized ring tone for Stark on James Rhodes cell phone)."
(Note to werewulfmom: IMDB lists quotes again. Instead of linking to the character name they put it at the bottom of the movie's page.)
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April 30th, 2008
10:25 am - Work Spending, Part II
I've finished the ordering. It totals $24,077 and some cents, including replacements for all the lab computers, a rack to house them, enough cables to centralize the computers but put the monitors & keyboards in different rooms, several laptops, a new scanner/printer, and an Apple Time Capsule.
I have no idea what to do with the last item, showing a serious flaw in the "use it or lose it" system. Unspent money reduces your future budgets since you obviously didn't need the extra this year.
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April 29th, 2008
09:56 am - Work Spending
Spending $100: easy
Spending $1,000,000: easy
Spending $20,000 in three days: hard
The money belongs to work and comes with the restrictions that individual items must cost less than $5000. Making it easier, the money comes from "Office Supplies". This includes not only paper and toner, but also computers and anything else not attached to the building. (I can only buy so many computers before they go to waste.)
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April 22nd, 2008
10:00 am - Tuesday is Monday at your participating Carvel
An hour into the work day and I have (in no order):
caught up on LJ from Thursday
printed a picture of my niece
set up my laptop, containing the picture, to use my work printer (yay Macs and 5 minute setup!)
searched for the gaff tape to put up the picture of my niece
greeted the other lab person (who is not my minion anymore) back from Germany
panicked over homework
read today's comics
skimmed today's news, including this story on the 3D body atlas from the 60s being put on the 'Net http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/science/22bass.html
transported enough Passover food to work for a couple of days (gross shortage of egg kichels made up for by an abundance of oranges)
written this entry
contemplated (again) a brain update
panicked several more times over homework
Current Music: A humming noise from the boiler near my office
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April 18th, 2008
03:33 pm - Family
I have a niece!
Details in a locked post.
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April 4th, 2008
01:45 pm - Good work news
Our grant at work has been renewed.
It's been a nervewracking couple of months. This is the second renewal and we are one of the better projects in our grouping. However between the lack of clarity in manned space program funding and NSBRI[0] dumping all the completed reviews last fall[1] we had been concerned.
[0] NSBRI = National Space Biomedical Research Institute, the part of NASA that funds us.
[1] Conflicts of interest - The first review teams were picked from currently funded projects. They had to find start over with less partial experts.
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April 3rd, 2008
09:28 am - 24 hours
We've finished another 24 hour experiment.
Raw data so far:
Artists will spend 24 hours in a lab for $1000
They will be very tired when they finish
Assistant lab managers will stay awake overnight but go home as soon as possible
Lab managers will stay awake during the day but sleep at the lab overnight (I was the backup and am the one who can fix the computers)
Expensing sushi is good
The actual data awaits analysis till tomorrow.
And now... Paperwork!
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09:28 am - 24 hours
We've finished another 24 hour experiment.
Raw data so far: Artists will spend 24 hours in a lab for $1000
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March 7th, 2008
01:42 pm - CTHULHU FHTAGN CHEEZBURGER
http://lolthulhu.com
Courtesy of phil_g
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March 6th, 2008
01:22 pm - Commuting Cat?
A story from London:
Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops
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March 5th, 2008
07:42 am - Phone Found
By definition everything is in the last place you look. This time it was in the first place I should have - the dirty laundry.
My phone didn't turn up when I called it because the battery had drained.
In other news, I woke up extra early and am at work.
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