Entries from March 2005

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Milton Friedman to speak in Palo Alto

When I was at Stanford, the Hoover Institution sponsored a free lecture by Milton Friedman. Somehow, I saw a request for “volunteer hosts” who could host non-Stanford students who wanted to attend the lecture. So I volunteered. The night before the lecture my guest arrived. He was a black man with dreadlocks, in his mid-20's. [...]

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Gulp!

So “frustrated” wrote back: How about sky diving this Sunday? Here's a link to the place I do my jumping: http://www.carolinaskysports.com If you want, make a reservation for yourself (ask for the least booked time), and let me know what time it is, and then I'll call up and make a reservation for myself at [...]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

On dumping yourself…

She wrote: I moved to Durham a little over a year ago and have had horrible dating luck. How much worse can it get: I just got dumped by MYSELF. I recently shaved my head (long story), and I figured, hell, with this haircut, I could be my own boyfriend. So, I took myself to [...]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Indeterminate usefulness

From a recent promising IM conversation: gp: i'm studying drug absorption and metabolism crasch: Cool. What's your model system? gp: in vitro models. human cell lines and mouse intestines gp: never thought i'd be doing this. crasch: Yeah, you rarely hear little girls say “I want to eviscerate mice when I grow up.” — gp: [...]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Indeterminate usefulness

From a recent promising IM conversation: gp: i'm studying drug absorption and metabolism crasch: Cool. What's your model system? gp: in vitro models. human cell lines and mouse intestines gp: never thought i'd be doing this. crasch: Yeah, you rarely hear little girls say “I want to eviscerate mice when I grow up.” — gp: [...]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Lovecraft + Family Circus mashup

Via Reason.

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Shy, spiritual type

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Rico Suave

On Wednesday (the week before last), I had a lunch date with C., a professor of philosophy at NC state. Only 28 years old, remarkably young for a professor. She's originally from Sussex, England and has long flaming waist-long red hair. After discovering that Helios Cafe, and Hard Times Cafe had incredibly long lines, we [...]

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Sound of Zombies: "A few of my favorite things"

Dried out old roses, embalmed little kittens Cannibal kettles and long dead ol'britons Brown leper bandages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things Death mounted ponies and cadaver-strewn dales Hell bells and slay belles and Beelzebub poodles Witches that fly with the moon on their wings These are few of [...]

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Norman Borlaug – American Hero

When you think of the word “hero”, most people probably think of movie stars — Bruce Willis, maybe, or Harrison Ford. Norman Borlaug's face (above) probably doesn't come to mind. Yet Borlaug, an agronomist, has been instrumental in preventing hundreds of millions of deaths by starvation. From the 40's to the present, he has developed [...]