Golden Globe nominations are out. [link]
Oz ,'Storyteller'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It's supposed to be that crisco is flaky and butter is tender, right? I don't know, I guess I'll stick to the half-and-half to hedge my bets.
It's supposed to be that crisco is flaky and butter is tender, right? I don't know, I guess I'll stick to the half-and-half to hedge my bets.
Other way around. Alton Brown explains. With puppets!
A very buffista stocking stuffer.
I need that, a lot.
Other way around. Alton Brown explains. With puppets!
Of course that makes sense! But how is it that my mother insists that my grandmother's crust is the flakiest, and yet she uses butter flavor Crisco? It's a mystery.
OMG, I don't think they missed a single fantasy cliche in this music video:
TNH says it's like a Harlequin Romance cover come to life. I agree, but not in a good way.
(It is completely SFW, except that I would have been snorking too loud to go unnoticed.)
Things always break on the day I have a meeting with the big kahuna. I love taking bad news to him.
Do not want.
I saw Steve Chu's presentation on global warming. He said we're going to hit the iceberg (likening earth to the titanic), there's no way to stop it at this point. But how hard we hit depends on what we do RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.
But he didn't say fuck. I think it was implied.
He was just magical in how he explained everything, and was very gentle with data (sometimes scientists throw an assload of numbers and squiggly lines at an audience and are all, BEHOLD THE GIRTH OF MY DATA) and it all sort of looks like a jackson Pollock and no one cares.
He was really mindful that the audience weren't sciencey, and so went with metaphor on the data slides so the audience could easily understand what was being presented.
Plus! He won his nobel with atom trapping, which is what my lab at JPL worked on. We loves us some Chu. He's just a phenomenally kind man.
And you can always tell when kids (grad students and post-docs, not really kids, but they always seem so little to me) come out of a great lab. They're very well behaved and present well at symposia and such. When they come visit a lab they're always respectful of everyone.
Kids that come out of assholes' labs? Poorly behaved. Entitlement whores. Chu's labkids were just charming and gracious and grateful and that tends to be a top-down thing.
I'm just ridiculously pleased.