As long as no one pisses me off, we're good.

Stay home, lisah! I only came in because it's much easier to yell at people for information when you are physically present.

Huh. Evidence Emerges That Laws of Physics Are Not Fine-Tuned For Life

Slashdot says:

eldavojohn writes "A common argument one might encounter in intelligent design or the arduous process of resolving science with religion is that the physical constants of our world are fine tuned for life by some creator or designer. A University of Alberta theoretical physicist claims quite the opposite when it comes to the cosmological constant. His paper says that our ever expanding universe has a positive cosmological constant and he explains that the optimum cosmological constant for maximizing the chances of life in the universe would be slightly negative: 'any positive value of the constant would tend to decrease the fraction of matter that forms into galaxies, reducing the amount available for life. Therefore the measured value of the cosmological constant, which is positive, is evidence against the idea that the constants have been fine-tuned for life.'"

I guess only reason for going in would be to impress people who actually don't care.

Yeah, that is me today.

I only came in because it's much easier to yell at people for information when you are physically present.

Coming into the office doesn't give me this benefit. The people I need to yell at today are in Salt Lake City, Portland, and Redding.

The people I need to yell at today are in Salt Lake City

It's a nice day today, here, maybe I could take a road trip for you?

I don't think I need to yell at anyone today! So far. And I just had my coworker who did make it in forward my phone here.

For tommyrot.

Hec, dear, this made me think of you: [link] what with the bubblegum and all.

Thanks for the notice. Without Don Kirshner, not only would there have been no televised Rock Concert, but also no Monkees and no Archies.

I recently rediscovered my tape of The 1980 Floor Show, when Kirshner let Bowie program an entire hour long episode. It included Bowie dueting with Marianne Faithful on "I Got You Babe" while she was wearing a backless nun's habit that left her ass bare. No, she did not turn to the camera.

What's up at work, amych?

SuziQ- who in Portland needs to be yelled at? my voice is coming back nicely.

The quinoa conversation is amusing me. Last night's dinner was a quinoa salad I love to make with lentils, feta, and arugula in it. Yums. Strangely enough, though quinoa and arugula can both be bitter, somehow combining them with lentil, lemon, and olive oil neutralizes all that.

Hair is now dyed and greys are properly banished for a couple more weeks. I need to move on to grading.

It's probably the lemon that reduces the bitterness.