Oh, I wonder if the girl I went to high school with dyed her hair then, because it's brown now: [link]

If you scroll down to post 14 here, the second and third pictures [...] have similar hair texture to my mom

I was thinking of nappier hair than that in my post. I don't know what my hair would do now, but in my youth it would never do anything as identifiable as ringlets like that guy has, or loose like that woman. It's gone all different now in different spots on my head and I'd never dream of growing it out, much less wearing it long and loose like that.

Poor bride and groom and company. The limo they hired for three hours ditched them after dropping them off. He took off with their wedding certificate and a necklace and other things still in the limo. Had to call them a cab. What a way to end a wedding. 600 bucks for half an hours service? Almost ended up giving them a ride to their hotel, which was in my township.

One of my college roomates had that same hair, Jesse. But she didn't dye it, it was blond (well, except for the unfortunate cherry koolaid incident. She tried dyeing it for a costume, and well, it lasted.)

I need to get a swimsuit. Standard performance suits drive me nuts because they don't have enough fabric on top if they fit properly on the bottom now. This will probably make me nuts. I think I'm really going to join the Y down the road, because as much as I'm liking my walking, I'm not going to be comfortable doing it in the dark this winter. Hence, pick up swimming. And maybe I'll even use the gym. Hrm. Pod person.

Coates has some interesting discussion about that article in the comments, FYI.

I know comments are comments, but I can't believe there's a guy up in there calling straightening "deliberate uglification." How rude.

Timelies all!

Am posting from a hotel in NJ. We're spending the weekend in the NY-area. The original reason for the trip is to see my brother and his family, who live in the city. We are seeing some friends while we're here.

This is cool - the first time ever that an individual molecule has been photographed. OK, maybe it's more correct to say it was "imaged", as it wasn't done by collecting photons....

[link]

That B&W structure is an actual image of a molecule and its atomic bonds. The first of its kind, in fact, and a breakthrough for the crazy IBM scientists in Zurich who spent 20 straight hours staring at the "specimen"--which in this case was a 1.4 nanometer-long pentacene molecule comprised of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms.

You can actually make out each of those atoms and their bonds, and it's thanks to this: An atomic force microscope.

Info on how it was done: [link]

Fun!

I'm impatiently waiting for Mystery! & Inspector Lynley because I miss certain accents. Damn.

Wow! That's deeply nifty, tommyrot.

I'm reading the article about Memorial Hospital after Katrina. I'm not sure I'm quite in a strong enough mindframe to read this right now.