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Happy Anniversary to Us!
Three years ago today Rachel and I got married, and we’re even more in love than ever. Go us! I haven’t gotten Rachel a present yet, but year three makes this our leather anniversary, which may give me a few ideas… We’re celebrating in a manner of sorts by going with our church, Re:Live, to…
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Graduation Season
Last weekend I flew back to Maryland for Mark’s high school graduation. I apologize if I didn’t get to visit you; there’s only so much time to visit people on a short trip. Perhaps over Christmas we’ll be able to stay for a bit longer and be able to have leisurely visits with more people.…
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Nature!
This afternoon we took a walk up a hill to check out the view. On the way back we ran across a large beetle.
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What Happened Here?
When we put the chicken away last night the bowl was fine. This afternoon we got it out for lunch and found this scene of devastation. Especially odd is that it looks like it’s missing a whole piece, but we didn’t find any yellow plastic sections anywhere. Hrm… Anybody who was at my house yesterday…
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Six Figure Checks? Seriously?
Looks like Matthew Inman, the guy behind one of my favorite webcomic sites, The Oatmeal, has started whining about content aggregators. You know, those sites that compulsively gobble whatever they can find on the internet and spew it back with all kinds of advertising. I used to run into these all the time when googling…
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Inside the PhD Program
Somehow I managed to sleep for twelve hours last night. I thought I’d take a “short nap” at around 8 PM, and basically ended up waking at 8 AM this morning. Huh. Oh, also it’s Rapture Day. Having made a similar mistake more than a hundred years ago, Seventh-Day Adventists know what to do. Anyway,…
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Nilla Mitosis
My bag of mini Nilla wafers contained one that was in the process of dividing when it was fixed (baked). The specimen allowed me to complete an informative and delicious diagram.
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Confocal Microscopy
While waiting for my turn on the confocal microscope I did a little advanced imaging of my own. I took this with picplz but so far I’m not too “plzed” with how they deal with the images. Equating caption and title isn’t all that great, although the effects are kind of fun.
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.