Congratulations, NovaChild! And welcome, Eddie!
Kate, Have you or your dad seen the Almodovar film Talk to Her?
Yes, I love that movie!
Kate and Robin should check out Caetano's fantastic book about the Tropicalia movement.
David, I have that book, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I'll kick it up a couple notches in the queue.
Despite being very much not a morning person, I do like the first hour or so in my office every day. My boss doesn't get here until at least 10 most days, so it's more fun and relaxed, which is a good way to start the day. Right now we're listening to my coworker's Bollywood collection on his iPod.
Kristin, the tape of last week's "Eyes"? Or this week? Because I taped over last week's with tonight's "Lost."
Oops! Oh well, never mind. It's not something I was dying to see; just something I thought I would check out if it was available. No worries.
I'm having another one of those days where I got to work and no one is here. Well, that's not entirely fair, there are two people here, but neither of them is my boss. Or the person who could tell me where my boss is. Huh. I'm going to guess that there's some big meeting. Or everyone just has spring fever?
I took a sleep studies class in college (held at 2 pm in a huge dark lecture hall -- oh, the delicious irony) where we talked about the fact that very few creatures have a 24-hour circadian clock. Humans run a little fast (approx. 23 hours), and hamsters run a little slow (approx. 25 hours), so we're all experiencing mini-jet-laggy feelings all the time. Exposure to sunlight does a fair job of adjusting our internal clocks to match external time, but most of us don't get outside enough for it to really work.
Another interesting tidbit is that if you shave a sparrow's head and paint it black, you can totally throw off it's circadian rhythms.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that my office should give me a laptop and let me work from Bryant Park today, because it's freaking gorgeous out there, and my cube is very far from any windows.
Another interesting tidbit is that if you shave a sparrow's head and paint it black, you can totally throw off it's circadian rhythms.
What I want to know is why someone even thought to try this in the first place.
Kristin, I've got both eps on a tape (along with last week's VM and last night's LOST and ALIAS), but I haven't gotten around to watching them yet. I can send you the tape when I've gotten to them (maybe this weekend), or if I decide I'm never going to get to them.
What I want to know is why someone even thought to try this in the first place.
I was wondering that. My best guess is that it increases the amount of heat that the bird's skull gets when it is in sunlight.
Why someone thought
that
would be a good idea....
What I want to know is why someone even thought to try this in the first place.
I'm only surprised it took them so long.
because it's freaking gorgeous out there, and my cube is very far from any windows.
Not anymore. At least not down here. Completely overcast.
