As long as it's convenient (current apartment: across the street. Last apartment: first floor of same building), I like going to the laundromat. You can do everything at once! Laundry every three weeks take me a hour start to finish.

Now I want cake.

All i want is a new haircut/style. I dont know how this applies.

Maybe time for an 80s revival?

Probably not you, though.

I see you as more of a forties glamourdoll.

Even a big Bobbie Gentry 60s mane.

I'd love something sweet right now. Unfortunately, the movers wiped me out, so I've got $8 in my wallet and $3 in my bank to supposedly last me until payday on the 12th. But, Dad's visit on Saturday might just fix that! Also, my old apartment's manager is checking it out today, and I'm hoping he will have the check cut by the end of the week. I'm calling him to ask that if he does do that, maybe he can overnight the check to me and deduct the cost for the mailing from the check.

Star Trek-esque cloaking device closer to reality (as long as you only want to theoretically cloak particles of dust from certain kinds of light):

Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton propose that placing certain objects close to a material called a superlens could make them appear to vanish.

It would rely on an effect known as "anomalous localised resonance".

The phenomenon is analogous to a tuning fork (which rings with a single sound frequency) being placed next to a wine glass. The wine glass will start to ring with the same frequency; it resonates.

The cloaking effect would exploit a resonance with light waves rather than sound waves.

However efficiency remains the key. There is only so much biomass that can sustainably be converted to energy.

Well, it's not like butanol or E85 is going to be cheap per gallon. There should be plenty of market incentive to make more efficient vehicles.

(as long as you only want to theoretically cloak particles of dust from certain kinds of light):

Well, it would help my apartment look cleaner.

I think it's pretty fair to say that if you're too busy to read mail that you received a week ago, you're not doing your job, and something has to change. And don't get me started on people who read things like invitations and plain just don't reply...and those people also never show to the meetings, no matter if they're key, or if it's all about them.

Also, grr.

Ok, I guess the tsunami thing was actually a warning, and it's been cancelled. Whew.

Also, from way back... katefate, thanks for the link about Robert. They've also named an existing opera scholarship at my alma mater in their name. I'll probably be contributing to both.

Hmm... I looked up the Royals game last night and sure enough, they lost. Darn, Pittsburgh is starting to pull away in the race to not be the worst team in the league. For that matter, the Royals are on track to set a new record for losses in a season currently held by the NY Mets at 120.