Caulimovirus | February 29, 2008
Or “‘E’ for Excellent” .: Both Rick and Anonymoustache bestowed the same honor upon me earlier this week, and I’d be remiss in my duties as a blogger if I didn’t express my gratitude by perpetuating this meme. I must say I don’t read that many other blogs that aren’t already well known, and most […]
Caulimovirus | February 29, 2008
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Caulimovirus | February 29, 2008
Or “Giving Back to the Community, One Hastily Written Appraisal at a Time” .: Last week a professor emailed me about the upcoming Central Texas Science and Engineering Fair and its need for volunteer judges. Those of us participating were asked to choose which subjects we’d like to judge. As someone who loves molecular biology, […]
Caulimovirus | February 22, 2008
Or “Stray Musing For The Day” .: My professor just emailed me a dozen articles that cover what he’s currently doing in his lab. I’m looking towards the fun weekend I’ll have reading them all. .: One thing I noticed was the steps Gmail took to protect me from any potential threats the pdf files […]
Caulimovirus | February 20, 2008
Or “Mathematicians Get All the Best Nerd Jokes” .: Killing time during my Cell Fizzzz class the other day, I and the girl next to me gazed upwardly at the periodic table adorning the upper third of the wall. She wrote on her notebook “Xenon: Warrior Princess” and immediately the game was on. .: I […]
Caulimovirus | February 18, 2008
Or “More Bad Oxymorons And Other Nonsense” .: I have a bad habit of checking the Trib’s opinion pages for the occasional 300-word polemic against “Darwinism”. I have an equally bad habit of responding to those polemics with my own carefully researched and devastatingly concise rebuttals. Of course my letters to the editor are invariably […]
Caulimovirus | February 12, 2008
Or “Sometimes the Aristotelian Mean Is Not” .: On a slightly related note, I’ve seen several guys hit the showers in their underwear. What’s up with that?
Caulimovirus | February 10, 2008
Or “No Cyanide In This Post” .: Reviewing my words on this blog, I’ve noticed most of them are negative. Complaints and rants certainly have their place on the internet, but I want to offer something different this time. Instead of bitching about things which irk me, I want to salute the worthier aspects of […]
Caulimovirus | February 8, 2008
Or “Obligatory Carl Sagan Quote” “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”
Caulimovirus | February 5, 2008
Or “Wherein I Shamelessly Borrow From Indexed”
any day you survive the Dooner treatment is a good day as if watson would leave his house in improperly polished footwear a true scientist will always disregard the risks in the pursuit of knowledge every sentence gets its own paragraph fighting feeding fleeing and not tonight honey i'm tired how am i supposed to type one handed now i'm popping open a bottle of synthohol when i publish I can see you fouling up the air tonight - oh lord i don't even know if dogs have caeca I sleep with three socks marketers developed this ace years ago but kept it sleeved for when the inevitable lull in ketchup demand strikes now they're going to watch even more fox news one solution is to have two dachshunds so that they wind up licking each other instead people would be much kinder if robots would sort them by wavelength plus now everywhere I go I know how to do a maxi prep spend the extra thirty bucks for a better motel surfing is just another way of knowing they can't just pour a curb this time the falling apple impedes science turns out they weren't poisonous what am i ever going to use this for what if he prefers to do it oz-like women have it not necessarily harder but certainly creepier