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This week my parents and sister are traveling up from Florida to Virginia to visit assorted distant relatives. Dreamed about this last night. Funny how telling - or even remembering? - a dream can reshape it… I changed bits around very slightly to make it slightly more linear, and now I [...]

I never thought I’d be bored enough to flip through back issues of Laser Focus World, but I reached that point tonight. (It’s actually a lot more interesting than I would’ve guessed.) (Registration required, feel free to use FirstN/LastN/laserfocus@orangewallaby.net)
Perhaps the best part (better even than the featurette on 3D fabrication of micron-scale [...]

Fun with [Yahoo! Slideshow](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/h/slideshow2/index) :
(This is also known as “in the lab far too late and vaguely bored by boring measurements”… more about which later, if I feel bored enough to write about it then. I knew you’d be pleased.)
Now, the real question is… which of these three women has the most embarassing hat?

This week is “resident appreciation week” at my apartment complex. This must be a new thing, since none of the people I know who lived here last summer ever mentioned it. They left flyers on our doorsteps announcing it last week, with the big feature being a presentation from the “pampered chef” people. “Yawn,” [...]

Went looking for a card for my grandfather’s birthday the other day. Tried three different stores; saw a total of maybe 20 different cards “for grandpa/grandfather”. 70% were ‘to grandpa’ with puppies and/or kittens or balloons or something in bright crayon colors… nice to send if you’re 7, but it’s 20 years too [...]

It’s amazing how little time I actually spend doing experiments, sometimes. Spent most of last week talking about a set of experiments we needed for a paper (to show that someone else’s work back in the 70s on the effects of fluoride concentrations on cholinesterases was basically a great big pile of garbage… he [...]