Question

How is it that the Sex and the City movie was sooo much better than the new Indiana Jones?? Really, it was. And it just doesn’t seem right. Space aliens? It was bad enough that George Lucas tarnished Star Wars. Then he roped Speilberg into ruining Indy, too. The crystal skull looked like something you’d [...]

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What are they thinking?

Wonder what the people in the “uncontacted” tribe in the Amazon jungle in Brazil were thinking as a helicopter flew by and took their picture? Do they know we exist? Have they seen any jets flying overhead or seen any signs of logging in the jungle? Do they think it’s some supernatural event?
There’s about 100 [...]

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Get them some typewriters

A new study explains how researchers implanted electrodes in a monkey’s brain that allow it to control a robotic arm to such an extent that it can grasp and eat a piece of food using only their thoughts. That’s about the coolest thing I’ve heard in well, a long time. Scientific American has the story, [...]

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WTF? (What the FOX?)

C’mon, people. Seriously. At least try to pretend like you have a lick of decency if you’re on national TV.

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Gains and Losses

So I had my six month review at my new job on Monday. I had an extremely positive review and got a small raise. So things are going well on that front. Eventually I will write something about it’s all gone now that I’m six months in.
The real shocker was earlier on Monday when I [...]

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Friends abroad

So most of you all know my friend Didi went to China to cover the Olympics for the AP. She’s blogging about it and it is definitely worth a read. We’re going to link to it permanently when we have time to do some more updating. Right now she’s working with the AP on covering [...]

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Glomerulus and other body stuff I know

Last week I found out I could make a 45 percent on my anatomy final and still make an A in the class. I’m happy to say I did not show up to school tonight completely stupid. Mike and I celebrated with ice cream and because of my teacher’s obsession with pathways I can now [...]

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Blog spring cleaning

We are trying to update our blog a little bit. I finally updated my bio page and I decided that if Mo wasn’t going to write hers, I would do it for her. I decided to be brutally factual about it, too. Click under the “About” link to read it.

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Dude, leave already

It’s all over but the leaving for Billary, but she vows to fight on. Talk about a quagmire. I’m totally buying into the Tonya Harding theory at this point.
I can hear her saying it:
“Egg-cellent, Smithers. Egg-cellent.”

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Mirror’s Edge looks razor sharp

Holy crap, check out the trailer for this game. “Dizzing” is putting it mildly.

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