Man, it is cold, wet and windy here today. I'm on campus waiting for Check-in for NIUCares Day to start. (I'm working check in.) Students are starting to get here. I wondered - given the weather what the turn-out would be. (This is the second shift - shift 1 had an 8 am check-in but staff had to be here at 6... I'm glad I got the choice.)

Also - somebody has made Batman and Joker amigurumi.

I spoke with an evo psychologist about just-so stories and he said all scientists do the same thing to narrate their theories...no, not really.

Oh yeah, chemists do this all the time. Physicists too.

You think he's actually a prick or you're just upgrading him because he's a murderer and killing people is prickish in your book?

Killing people isn't in yours?

Killing people isn't in yours?

You can kill people in a polite manner.

Where? I thought just-so was specific to squishy sciences like biology/anthropology.

Just-so is culture specific, isn't it?

Oh I remember the other thing I was going to say - TAM is quite possibly the worst place in the world to do that Million Dollar Challenge thing because the ratio of male:female guests is so ridiculously skewed. (At NECSS the line for the women's bathroom was about four people. The line for the men's room went all the way down the hall. It made me sad.)

Where? I thought just-so was specific to squishy sciences like biology/anthropology.

I was aiming for sarcasm there.

You can kill people in a polite manner.

Which... makes it no less a prickish thing to do.

What is a "just-so story" in this context?

I ran to go a-googlin' when you said that, Jessica. Someone brought up string theory as just-so. Ima have more coffee before I try and set my brain to how it could be construed as just-so.

In the context of evo psych, Amy?