Beware of robot uprising

My friend Anna's boyfriend has written a marvelous book about how to survive the inevitable robot attack! You can even buy it on Amazon and the like, isn't that fancy?

God smileth down upon my meatloaf

At the Spar Bar & Cafe in Olympia:

Genius Awards

Helio Sequence performed at the SAM last night for the Stranger's Genius Awards. As usual, they rocked! If you haven't seen them live, go do it, NOW! They are one of those bands that are pretty good on the album, and totally amazing live.

General Exam

I Passed!!!
I'm now a fancy-schmancy PhC!

Ok, the hilarious part is that as I was setting up to give my powerpoint presentation, I spilled coffee on my laptop keyboard. Expletives flew out of my mouth, I turned the computer upside down and shook wildly, then used napkins to dab up the rest. Good thing that laptop keyboards are so shallow - I was able to soak it all up. Of course, not without pressing lots of buttons and inserting random slides into my talk! This all happened about 2 minutes before my committee started entering the room, yet I somehow managed to pull it off, and my computer didn't even explode!


This is my dining table, which became a desk for 6 weeks while preparing for the exam.

Yay for electricity!

Holy shit! There is a brilliant woman out there who is so amazing she wants to share her brilliance by telling us all how to make an LED tanktop!!! Check it out! She makes math and science look COOL and FUN!

Thanks to Andrew F. for distracting me with this when I should be preparing for my general exam. Now I just want to drop out of school and make wearable electronics.

Numerous showers

The rainy "season," AKA 6 months of greyish-white skies and drizzle, has begun! What the hell is meant by "numerous" showers? And how many different ways do you need to say, "It's going to freaking rain"!?!?

Tonight
	Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the 40s. South wind around 10 mph.

Sunday
	Numerous showers. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Southeast wind around 10 mph.

Sunday Night
	Showers likely. Lows in the 40s. South wind around 10 mph.

Monday
	Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. South wind 5 to 15 mph.

Monday Night and Tuesday
	Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.

Tuesday Night
	Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.

Wednesday
	Rain likely. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.

Wednesday Night through Friday
	Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.

"like ice cream"

This is a description of the effort to clean up the Superdome in New Orleans after the madness of housing hurricane Katrina evacuees. The description is not lacking in grotesque imagery. God bless the BBC.

"It was covered in trash and the restrooms were absolutely filthy. The toilets had feces three inches above the seat. The bowl was full and it was sitting atop that like ice cream, and even the sinks and the floor had been used."

Find the full story here.