Snagged from maradydd 1.Take a picture of yourself right now. 2.Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. 3.Post that picture with NO editing. 4.Post these instructions with your picture.

It's been really hard to get myself over my jet lag, between being sick and having no obligations until noon. I couldn't get to sleep until 4am last night, so I snoozed from 10 until nearly 11... got up for a bit, read, ... and fell back asleep for another hour and a half. Finally decided it was time to drag my sorry ass outside; met up with maradydd and went shopping. Came back with a new...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my fellow Walpurgis-nauts! Apr 29th — blessure Apr 30th — maradydd & aprman May 1st — and, of course, yours truly By the way, I am officially getting younger starting tomorrow. *begins furiously gluing his telomeres back together* Ha! Take that F. Scott Fitzgerald ! "Faust und Mephisto", Luis Ricardo Faléro (1880) ...

Drinking straw electrophoresis . I'm trying to interest a few undergrads in doing this with high school students.

I posted yesterday about my friend Lindsay getting pressured by iPhone "repair specialists" iResQ to remove a blog posting she had made complaining about iResQ's poor customer service and the "SAME DAY - fastest service on the planet" repair that had dragged on for over two weeks. Lindsay's blog is only read by a very small audience of close friends and family. But by pressuring her to censor...

snagged from maradydd : Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title. Notes: I've got a lot of instrumental music, and it seemed a shame to leave it out entirely. So I've left it in where it occurred, but didn't count them as part of the 21 songs. I took some...

Bioethics: freedom of choice vs. forced lifesaving measures. (Responsible biohacking.) Skeptic etiquette : politely dealing with people who believe in all sorts of inane quackery.

It's always at least a week long ordeal, and I hate it. If you are ill, please do not be offended if I refuse to touch you or go near you. I don't know why my body does this, or how to make it stop, but I never want it to happen again. I hate laying in bed in the middle of the day, unable to sleep, unable to find a comfortable position because my body aches so bad. It's almost 70°F outside here...

Meredith for Victory: Associated Press just covered her DIY home-genetically-engineered "glowgurt" Meredith and I met in SF earlier this month through (The Amazing) Julia and immediately bonded over my improbable desire to have kittens implanted in my womb. She is, how you say, awesome . I'm glad everyone else is starting to find that out too. Of course, as it likely goes without saying...

P.S. - maradydd is a friend of mine from my OWW days, which makes this article all the more compelling for me.