August 2012
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Grammar Notwithstanding
Two of my bestest friends brought me my favoritest beer today.
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5 minute dreams
Woke up, wondered if I REALLY needed to be at work on time. Hit snooze and dreamt of checking my calendar which said simply “9:30am - Berserk!!” Can’t miss that!
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Local, Organic
Any meal that starts like this
has a better chance of being like this
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Beck
This is the best thing ever.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/15/beck_s_video_game_music_cities_spiral_staircase_and_touch_the_people_score_interactive_sound_shapes_.html
Darwin's dilemma: A nice soft wife on a sofa or... →
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Eureka
A girlfriend once told me that if she could sleep with anyone in history, it would be Kurt Cobain. This was after our friend invented the game, saying she would sleep with Elvis Presley. I got the impression Kurt may have been a second choice, after being beaten to the punch on Elvis.
Anyway, she asked me who I would choose and after a minute a few people came to mind, but none seemed quite...
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In which the customer gets served
Verizon store internet chat session, after explaining what I wanted in a third way:
Molly Sue: You can make purchases with a debit or credit card from our Online Store.
Me: Is it possible to pay with a company check at a retail location?
Molly Sue: I don’t have access to that information. I’m in the Online Retail Department.
Me: Well I didn’t ask to talk to you...
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Bequeath me a dinosaur!
“…the daughter of a Cornell professor who bequeathed to us his collection of…” “…something easy like triceratops—or protoceratops which doesn’t have the horns…”
Conversational snippets overheard in the same minute. Where the hell do I work?
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Symposium Success
I think the biggest disaster of the Symposium was this European’s attempt at making a hamburger using two hotdog buns.
I worked 12 hours the day before, 14 hours the first day, slept in the Dino Lab, and then worked 10 hours the second day. I had some amazing help both days and enjoyed the Symposium much more than the days leading up to it thanks completely to them.
While I didn’t...
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The Summer Symposium
I am running this thing again this year. Right now it look like this: long hours of preparation, $600 and 200lbs in grocery shopping, spending the night at my place of employ, wrangling help, wracking my brain.
Hoping tomorrow it will start to look more like this: talking science, showing off, making friends, barbecuing, sharing beers, collecting fossils.
