Top-Five Lists in place of a more substantial posting: Trees Sugar Maple Gingko Eucalyptus Flowering Magnolia Date Palm I really don't l...

So I'm back at Purdue for Homecoming weekend, with a science alumni board meeting tomorrow, tailgating festivities Saturday morning, foo...

Don't forget to celebrate Mole Day today, from 602a to 602p. And you can dress up like a mole, if you like. This has me wondering why I...

A friend and I worked at Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach yesterday, doing airbrush tattoos on people. I'm trying very hard to compartmen...

My life is in utter disarray. There are five things I need to find. So far, I have located two. So, that's 40%. Still failing, but de...

Before I launch into tales of the move, let me tell a quick story about what happened to me Thursday morning. So I have my clock radio alarm...

It's ours. :)

My latte art this morning. It was actually intended to be a pumpkin. It ended up looking like a sea creature, so I gave it an eye and pron...

I had an ambitious summer reading list (to say nothing of the teetering stacks and bowing shelves of books -yet-to-read here at home) that I...

We had a grey, windy, rainy day today. The kinds of mornings of which I have written . It was a stretch, but I made it into boot and sweat...

Music to grade papers by: Fade Into You , Mazzy Star San Andreas Fault , Natalie Merchant Gold Rush Brides , 10,000 Maniacs Noah's Dove ...

It's kind of hard (1) to justify blogging when I have committee notes to transcribe. It's a little harder to justify when the com...

Man, I am monstrously bad at blogging these days. Well, Prom is over, which lulls me into thinking that I might have some more time on my ha...

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Let's all sing along to Pavarotti's most famous (and beautiful) aria, on the occasion of his death at age 71. Listen to it and tel...

Latest installment in the I-don't-have-time-to-write-a-real-post-so-I'm-just- going-to-link-to-something-interesting page that used ...

Dearest Future Self: Next time you're up past 100a on a school night, just go ahead and take your shower before going to bed. Because e...

... I wrote a blog. So school has started, hence the post sabbatical. With some of my closest colleagues and friends gone, and many of my c...

What is wrong with people?

So I've already admitted to liking some rather base food. A couple days ago, I destroyed my gourmet credibility with one of my friends,...