personal and professional notes from a chemistry graduate student
Feb 28th 2005General
… not that I’m looking … yet ….
But my sister *does* have a job now, starting some time this week. She’ll be a news clerk at the local paper (really local, not a Scripps-Howard), and it sounds like a very good place to work — nice boss, who also started as a news clerk, [...]
Feb 28th 2005site news
Upgraded to WordPress 1.5. Looks shiny and new, but it also seems to have made half my plugins stop working. Hrm.
I’ll give it a shot anyway, I guess.
Testing Geoff Hutchinson’s excellent plugin to use gallery pictures in wordpress.
winter/treasures_801
winter/snowprints
Feb 22nd 2005General
In the interests of serving the public at large… well… and amusing myself… and to see if it boosts search engine results… quickie answers to common search requests that found a post here:
* Fresh juice might last a couple hours or a couple days. It probably depends on what you mean by “lasts”… the [...]
Feb 19th 2005General
Wish I’d had my camera.
I saw a Ford Explorer in the parking structure when I was coming out of work tonight: Tigger sticker on the back, license plate “TIGGER”.
I hope the owner remembers it needs *unleaded* extract of malt. And that it bounces as it goes over speedbumps.
(The wonderful thing about SUVs is… [...]
Feb 19th 2005nerd alert
My advisor dropped by my desk for a nice little chat today. One thing that came up was how he wasn’t sure if I was interested in an industrial job or an academic one — I’ve only told him a dozen times, and none *very* recently — but that if it was the latter, [...]