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Only on the comments for Dinosaur Comics would someone make the remark, “Ah, a frictionless dinosaur – if only such a thing were possible. It’s that rarest of things: a physicist’s wet dream, and a paleontologist’s worst nightmare.”

I am better today, after a completely crappy day yesterday. I went home and just wanted to sleep it off; of course, I couldn’t get to sleep — cruel irony. Anyway. Better now. And my apologies to the four people that I was completely bitchy to yesterday… it also seems like the negotiations that require [...]

It just started raining — the first time since the spring, the first time in six months. The air is filled with ozone and my soul is glad. I’m happy I stayed up late tonight; this is magical.

Did you ever wish you could delegate some of your good ideas to other people to work on, including the ideas that you think for some bizarre reason only you or a small handful of people could accomplish? I do, all the time. What to do about this?

So today on the streets of Davis — during a downtown street fair/wine tasting event that was going on — I was minding my own business listening to a not-terrible country band play when an older gentleman (perhaps early 70′s) caught my eye and came over to talk. We talked about music for a minute [...]

In a neurotic variation on the “I showed up to give a presentation and I was naked” dream, I dreamed last night that I was giving library instruction for a graduate seminar, and was happily seated in the front row waiting to give my portion when I realized that I didn’t know a) the professor’s [...]

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