April 2013
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Apr 26th
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I’ve recently gotten into (way, way into) the TV show Community. Whenever I let myself go into a TV show, I inevitably wind up knitting like a fiend. What else am I going to do with my hands while I watch episode after episode of Senor Cheng take on Pierce Hawthorne in a battle for my heart? I was on a blanket craze for a while there (during my obsessive Downton Abbey binge). But yarn is...
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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March 2013
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Mar 22nd
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As much as I’ve tried to avoid it, it’s nearly impossible to ignore the rumblings about the papal election.  If I can’t avoid it, I might as well put my two cents out there and hope that maybe someone, somewhere will read it.  Let’s start by asking some questions about the office itself. What does a pope do? Why do all these people want to be a pope? Well, the pope is a...
Mar 13th
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Meanwhile at the Vatican… Since it’s a super-secret-pinky-swear-you-won’t-tell meeting, there’s no way of knowing that this isn’t the way they do it. If I go ahead and use theist logic, this means that since there’s no way to prove otherwise, musical chairs is totally the way that the pope is chosen.  Think about it. 
Mar 13th
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Mar 12th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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February 2013
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
January 2013
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Jan 31st
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Jan 29th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 16th
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The dress address
I didn’t catch the live broadcast of last night’s Golden Globe award (R and I were on an Arrested Development binge), but honestly all I care about is the dresses. I’m happy to catch up on the fashion this evening and ditch the speeches.  With no further ado… Best dressed award is actually a big fat tie between Julianne Hough in Jenny Packham and Kate Hudson in Alexander...
Jan 15th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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The twitter hashtag #OverlyHonestMethods is cracking me up right now.  Some personal favorites:  “A Northern blot was run instead of realtime QPCR because the PI is old and does not trust results unless he sees a band” “incubation lasted three days because this is how long the undergrad forgot the experiment in the fridge” “We grew the cells in DMEM not GMEM...
Jan 9th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 2nd
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What a long, strange trip it's been.
I think it’s important to periodically reflect on your own existence in this crazy human soup and I suppose there’s no better time than the beginning of a new year. So here goes nothin’.  Twenty eleven wasn’t my greatest year. It was littered with heartbreak and disappointments and big changes that kind of snuck up on me. If I recall correctly, I vowed to cackle as the...
Jan 2nd
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December 2012
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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What if Seinfeld was on the air now? →
The greatest Twitter feed I’ve seen in a while is called Modern Seinfeld — brief synopses of what episodes would look like if they aired today.  Some favorites: Kramer accidentally restarts the Occupy movement. Jerry’s new girlfriend (Emily Mortimer) watches Fox News. George offends a black coworker. Elaine’s new BF is a chef who does molecular gastronomy. George goes to...
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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The human genetics giant 23andme just dipped their prices down to a cool $99. For the fee, they sequencing a few hundred SNPs to give you a genetic analysis about your predisposition for health-related phenotypes as well as ancestry information. You can also opt-in to have them use your data for bioinformatic research.  I think it’s totally awesome that this kind of fairly deep analysis can...
Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
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That awkward moment when you’re at work and your boss is talking to the person RIGHT next to you and you keep turning up the volume to Justin Bieber Christmas album in your headphones and it’s still really quiet and then you realize…the headphones aren’t plugged in.  I…I…just want to go home now. 
Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Whenever I tell people I have a December birthday, I always get those pity eyes. You know the ones I’m talking about. The ones that say “aww, sweetie, there there, don’t cry over spilled birthday cake”. Everyone thinks it’s so horrible to share my celebration day with Jesus.  When I saw this article on Buzzfeed this afternoon about just how awful and disappointing it...
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th