I swear. My office-neighbor Gail finds the best stuff on the internet. Don’t those exterminating kiddies look so darn happy! WANT. Think I could fit? (Yeah, I know, the post-a-day thing not going so well. But better than it used…
Category: fun
The Face in your Bellybutton
Somehow, I missed out on being part of an excellent experiment at SciOnline a few weeks ago. A group of scientists and science communicators have teamed up to explore the “wildlife of the body” through Belly Button Diversity. They took…
The Grad Monster
Finally got a chance to watch this fantabulous Lady Gaga spoof about a grad student’s worst nightmare…
Work Break
I’m still alive…. and working…. and needed a short break…. I know I tweeted this twice already, but I can’t stop laughing at it… “The Turkey that Ate St. Louis” or how astronomy grad students procrastinated in 1969… Also, “Gettin’…
GUEST POST: Anime USA After Thoughts
This post is brought to you by the letter “Tim” and the number “Texas” A few months ago, I attended Anime USA, my 4th anime convention. This was the 2nd time I attended Anime USA and it was a great…
Astronomy Songs – Part I
For those of you that follow along on twitter, a little while ago I asked for some help finding space and astronomy songs for our Dark Skies, Bright Kids end of semester party. And did I mention that my twitter…
Dragon*Con Post-Op
Holy. Frakkin. Wow. So, I attended, no, experienced my very first Dragon*Con. It was on a scale of something that I have never seen before. Tens of thousands of freaks and geeks, many in costume, descended upon downtown Atlanta to…
My Philly-Atlantic City-New York-Poconos Experience
My webernets presence has been pretty sparse lately, as I’ve been away from home and on the road for almost a week and a half. And I had a blast! So much so that I’m having trouble readjusting to being…
Eureka! …A Review
“Eureka!” It’s a phrase connected with scientific discovery. Roughly meaning, “I have found it!” the story goes that Archimedes proclaimed it down the streets while running naked after realizing that his volume displaced an equal volume of water from his…
Oh, Jorge Cham gets it right AGAIN!
Welcome to my life…