Fresh Wallaby Juice

“That’s so sweet” is my nomination (if nominations are still open) for “Most Devastatingly Ambiguous Remark” of 2004. Ladies, if you say it about something a male friend* has given you, please clarify whether you meant “sweet like an awkward four-year-old carefully drawing you a blob and telling you it’s a puppy”, “sweet of [...]

“Early Success Using Saliva to Detect Oral Cancer” (on ScienceBlog, original report at NIH).
Saliva contains mRNA molecules that indicate the presence of mouth cancer; elevated levels of just four of these markers (out of 1679 genes expressed at higher levels in people with oral squamous cell carcinoma) can be detected for 91% accurate diagnosis. [...]

Last-minute Christmas shopping this morning, with my dad along for directions and co-shopping. Went by one particular kitchen-supply store looking for _______ or ________ (details not yet available, in case my sister reads this before tomorrow morning). They didn’t have quite what I was looking for on the first of those, but it [...]

and breathe that nice warm Southern air. Except for where it was filled with frozen snow (Bristol) or with a windchill of 5 F (a bit south of Chattanooga). Dumb cold fronts.
Drove from Michigan down to Florida, stopping off to see my college roommate and his family. Good weather for the most [...]

… I hate shopping at the mall… I hate shopping in the winter, when it drizzles.
And especially when I have to go to the shopping center with the very worst possible arrangement of traffic flow, along with six hundred other cars all desperate for Christmas gifts, half of which completely fail to understand the meaning [...]

Changed the theme. “Human Condition” (by Ian Main) should work better on other peoples’ computers, and it looks vaguely wintery.
A couple minor tweaks to the code. (Apparently WP 1.2.1 can become completely broken if someone types in the wrong site name. Also, the calendar in the arrr!chives was marking any day with the [...]