If you wanted to invite a famous science blogger to speak at a conference about science outreach, who would you ask first?

Inquiring minds want to know, and would love reasons and links.

Great Rose Bowl. Go Buckeyes!



Different version of Hang On Sloopy. Bonus: rocking steel drum solo. Bonus number two: MARIMBA.

With the first $20 of my Christmas money, I bought a skein of Valley Yarns Franklin Hand-dyed in the colorway "Frog In a Party Dress," in hopes that it will get a little of my obsession with Kangaroo Dyer colorways OUT OF MY SYSTEM. I fangirl at her about this colorway name whenever I see her because I think it's so funny.

It's good to be around people who understand why I've been periodically muttering, "frog in a party dress," all day.

PS: Today we took bedfull_o_books to Webs. Mwah-hah-hah!

r_ness: I'm not putting the camembert in your scrambled eggs. Call me wacky, but....
Me and bedfull_o_books: You're wacky!

There are eggs and meats and tamales and we're listening to Paul Anka's versions of things like "Everybody Hurts" by REM and "Wonderwall" by Oasis.

Happy New Year, y'all.

r_ness: Wow, it's 2010 already. How did THAT happen?
oxlahun: It's the future. Where's my goddamn flying car?!?

Me: Oooh, baklava.
Dormont: Baklava in cocktail sauce?
Me: No!
Dormont: Awwwwwww!

"Noro is the David Tennant of yarn." -jadefu

Okay, I admit it, the thing I'm looking forward to most in 2010 is the Monoliths multiplying and igniting Jupiter. I just CAN'T WAIT!

No, not one of those XKCD strips... just fixed my stepfather's scanner software. How? That's how. Of course. (Actually, I just hit the "Preferences" button and found the place where it was trying to connect to the wrong scanner, but the principle holds.)

We just watched shaun of the dead with mom and she liked it! Now it's bedtime.