Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category

Bobby Flay and the Doughnut Guy

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Before I even get this started, is it "doughnut" or "donut"? Shipley, a donut place near and dear to my family, comes down in favor of "donut". That's good enough for me. In the past couple of months I've started watching a lot of the Food Network. I have to say ...

My Sleepover at the Airport

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Today has been one of the longer days I've had in a while. I flew back to Los Angeles today (Saturday). My flight was originally scheduled to leave Houston at 10:56pm Friday night. I checked the flight status many times online before I went to the airport. The flight was ...

Six Miles and the U-Haul Guys

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Okay, I lied. It was only 5.85 miles, but in my book, that's close enough. Ariele, Katie, and I went running this morning. Katie and I had a "long run" scheduled for this morning as part of our training for the 10k we plan to run on Super Bowl Sunday. ...

Punk’d: The Nerd Edition

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

I totally punk'd one of my labmates this afternoon. As I've mentioned before, I do computational research, and as such, the lab in which I work is basically just a computer lab. Seven of us work in there at various points throughout the day. I just learned of the wall command ...

Misreading a Headline Can Be Fun

Friday, August 25th, 2006

I popped over to CNN.com this morning for a quick news update, and one of the linked articles had an interesting title: "Depression on verge of becoming Ernesto". Before I clicked on the link, I thought I had an idea what the article was about. I thought, stupidly, that the medical ...

Fly Hunting

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

I was sitting here eating lunch in the lab, and while I was reading some news online, a fly proceeds to fly about half way between my face and my monitor. One or two times of this happening is alright, but it really gets old after a dozen times or ...