Food Chain Friends
How freaking cool are these:
Gotta love stuffed animals that eat other stuffed animals!
In the NEWS....
10.07.2008
10.06.2008
This Sucks!
So I basically got three letters today, one by actual mail and two by e-mail that each read basically the same:
"Thank you four your interest in the position with _______. As a result of current economic uncertainty, we have chosen not to fill the advertised position at this time. Your resume will be kept on file for six months for future reference"
STUPID Economy! I NEED A JOB!!! anyone in need of a micropaleontologist/geologist/oceanographer???
:(
10.03.2008
Bronwynne live at the mockingbird
unfortunately the lighting sucked so some of the pics didn't come out as great as i would have liked. . . but oh well. . . . . . .
9.26.2008
61 Nobel Laureates released a letter endorsing Barack Obama for President
An Open Letter to the American People
September 25, 2008
This year's presidential election is among the most significant in our nation's history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems: energy, disease, climate change, security, and economic competitiveness.September 25, 2008
We are convinced that Senator Barack Obama is such a leader, and we urge you to join us in supporting him.
During the administration of George W. Bush, vital parts of our country's scientific enterprise have been damaged by stagnant or declining federal support. The government's scientific advisory process has been distorted by political considerations. As a result, our once dominant position in the scientific world has been shaken and our prosperity has been placed at risk. We have lost time critical for the development of new ways to provide energy, treat disease, reverse climate change, strengthen our security, and improve our
economy.
We have watched Senator Obama's approach to these issues with admiration. We especially applaud his emphasis during the campaign on the power of science and technology to enhance our nation's competitiveness. In particular, we support the measures he plans to take – through new initiatives in education and training, expanded research funding, an unbiased process for obtaining scientific advice, and an appropriate balance of basic and applied research – to meet the nation's and the world's most urgent needs.
Senator Obama understands that Presidential leadership and federal investments in science and technology are crucial elements in successful governance of the world's leading country. We hope you will join us as we work together to ensure his election in November.
Signed,
Alexei Abrikosov Physics 2003
Roger Guillemin Medicine 1977
Peter Agre Chemistry 2003
John L. Hall Physics 2005
Sidney Altman Chemistry 1989
Leland H. Hartwell Medicine 2001
Philip W. Anderson Physics 1977
Dudley Herschbach Chemistry 1986
Richard Axel Medicine 2004
Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1981
David Baltimore Medicine 1975
H. Robert Horvitz Medicine 2002
Baruj Benacerraf Medicine 1980
Louis Ignarro Medicine 1998
Paul Berg Chemistry 1980
Eric R. Kandel Medicine 2000
J. Michael Bishop Medicine 1989
Walter Kohn Chemistry 1998
N. Bloembergen Physics 1981
Roger Kornberg Chemistry 2006
Michael S. Brown Medicine 1985
Leon M. Lederman Physics 1988
Linda B. Buck Medicine 2004
Craig C. Mello Medicine 2006
Mario R. Capecchi Medicine 2007
Marshall Nirenberg Medicine 1968
Stanley Cohen Medicine 1986
Douglas D. Osheroff Physics 1996
Leon Cooper Physics 1972
Stanley B. Prusiner Medicine 1997
James W. Cronin Physics 1980
Norman F. Ramsey Physics 1989
Robert F. Curl Chemistry 1996
Robert Richardson Physics 1996
Johann Diesenhofer Chemistry 1988
Burton Richter Physics 1976
John B. Fenn Chemistry 2002
Sherwood Rowland Chemistry 1995
Edmond H. Fischer Medicine 1992
Oliver Smithies Medicine 2007
Val Fitch Physics 1980
Richard R Schrock Chemistry 2005
Jerome I. Friedman Physics 1990
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. Physics 1993
Riccardo Giacconi Physics 2002 E.
Donnall Thomas Medicine 1990
Walter Gilbert Chemistry 1980
Charles H. Townes Physics 1964
Alfred G. Gilman Medicine 1994
Daniel C.Tsui Physics 1998
Donald A. Glaser Physics 1960
Harold Varmus Medicine 1989
Sheldon L. Glashow Physics 1979
James D. Watson Medicine 1962
Joseph Goldstein Medicine 1985
Eric Wieschaus Medicine 1995
Paul Greengard Medicine 2000
Frank Wilczek Physics 2004
David Gross Physics 2004
Robert W. Wilson Physics 1978
Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 2005
The views expressed in this letter represent those of the signers acting as individual citizens. They do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions with which they are affiliated. The Medicine award is for “Physiology or Medicine.”
9.19.2008
fat pregnant and single. . .
no not me. . . .
so some of the students/tecs and some other people who works with one of the student's boyfriends, and myself were at this coffee shop last night to eat dinner and drink beer (they serve dinner and lazy magnolia beer :D mmm in addition to the normal coffee shop stuff). . .well we started talking about this that and the other when ( and it was appropriate to the topic, i just dont remember how) I bring up the fact that Mississippi is the fattest state in the Uninted States. So we high five each other for being #1. Then this guy next to me brings up the fact that Mississippi has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the US. More number one high fives are done. Kevin mentiones thats cause they are all married early, the other guy says nope that doesnt happen till after they have a few kids. . . so what do i do
Throw up my arms and say " we are fat, pregnant and single WOOHOO" and more high fives are had by all. . .
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO NOTE THAT I AM NOT FROM THIS STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM ONLY HERE FOR SCHOOL!
9.08.2008
9.05.2008
assaultingg a police officer
apparently the guy in the video below was arrested for assaulting a police officer, what do you think?
luckily a tourist caught this on videotape
8.28.2008
GUSTAV does not want to play nice
Gustav does not appear to be willing to play nice. Current predicitons he will hit the southern delta between monday and tuesday with the eye of the storm completely on land by 2pm on tuesday. He is also going slow. VERY SLOW! Now most might think oh good the hurricane is going slow that is good, well actually that is really bad. The hurricane is moving North/West very slowly the spinning is completly different, the slower it goes the longer it will have time to sit over the gulf water. The gulf water is very hot, this is what feeds a hurricane, so the slower it goes over this hot water the larger and faster swirling it is likely to be. Also they are expecting it to stall off the coast a little bit, stall as in just hang out off the coast. This is really bad, meaning water will get pushed up onto the coast a good while and before the hurricane gets there. AKA massive flooding. And since I am slightly north west of the current predicted landfall, that means devistation. Because the winds on the eastern side of a hurricane blow landward, you get the largest amunts of storm surge to the right of the storm and because of some other physics type things that I dont feel like getting into (ive explained this a gazillion times to the first years) it is also the area of the largest winds. If you are going to be hit by a hurricane down here the left side of the eye is the place to be, winds blow off shore so you dont get much in the way of storm surge, and thats where the weaker winds are.
I am getting the hell out of Dodge and heading to the "mountains" of atlanta tomorrow afternoon. That way if the hurricane speeds up i am already out of the way and i dont have to deal with traffic. Plus i want to sleep in on saturday and not have to get up and evacuate early saturday morning.
Atleast if we get killed by GUSTAV, its a good fierce name. Not some crappy name like Nana or Wilfred, who would want to be pummeled by a hurricane Wilfread?
2008 Hurricane names
Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gustav
Hanna
Ike
Josephine
Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paloma
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred
8.26.2008
GUSTAV
Looks like i may be evacuating this weekend. Now it still has a chance to turn west or east, but as of now, and as of the computer models it looks like I will be evacuating this weekend. I could use a road trip. Only negative thing, Luz our columbian will be evacuating with me (thats not the bad thing), she has just learned to drive in the US, has barley been on the interstate and the traffic in Atlanta is CRAZY!!! She will be following me up, hopefully the 80mph does not scare her to much!
8.04.2008
Just another Friday Night. . .
Norm and keely
Norm's interpretation of whats going on
dancing
hey
norm. . . dont ask
random group shot
Me dancing
Norm from behind the window, looks like he is trying to sell himself "red light district" style
We decided to jump the fence and go swimming, well these were the only shoes i had to walk over there in, note norms clothing. Alli and i had to go through all his shorts to find us each a pair that would stay up.
Keely and Heather have boobs. . . just in case you didn't notice
8.01.2008
100
So I totally stole this from amanda. . . . :D (including intro paragraph :D)
On Science blogs they've been passing around a list of 100 books of which it is claimed that the average American has read only six. So let's see what I've read (hopefully I'm better than average). Bold indicates that I've read it.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
43 out of 100 sounds pretty good. . . I had a really good english program growing up!
7.24.2008
7.13.2008
7.10.2008
We have such a great president. . . . (oh and by the way, we are the second biggest polluter, China is number one)
President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'
Last Updated: 7:52AM BST 10/07/2008
George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan.
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REUTERS
George Bush shares a joke with Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese President Hu Jintao at the G8 Summit in Toyako
The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido where the leaders of the world's richest nations had been discussing new targets to cut carbon emissions.
article can be found at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-'Goodbye-from-the-world's-biggest-polluter'.html
6.18.2008
Bill with grass on face
one of my new friends bill. . . this was before it began to rain. Once it started raining we spent the rest of the my morning jacket show dancing in the rain. . . tons of fun
black smoke ring
black smoke ring
Originally uploaded by jikuykendall
Jack Johnson
sort of disappointing. He would be great if you were chilling on the beach with a fire and just sitting listening to him play. However, he doesnt do much on stage so really not that entertaining to watch. So i just sat and chilled and listened to his set, so not a lot of pics.
Dark Star Orchestra
Dark Star Orchestra
Originally uploaded by jikuykendall
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring Bone Burnett
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring Bone Burnett
Originally uploaded by jikuykendall
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring Bone Burnett
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring Bone Burnett
Originally uploaded by jikuykendall
Alison Krauss
Shes is a little weird on stage, doesnt move much and sort of looks half out of it and creepy. But her voice is pretty! (gotta say something nice i guess)
they hippies were not happy with kanye west
Kanye pissed off the hippies big time!!!!! Origionally Kanye was supposed to play on the secondary stage in between jack johnson and pearl jam's set (around 8pm or so), however they changed his set to be on the big stage at 2:45 am (a few hours after pearl jam). I am thinking he pitched a fit about being scheduled to play the secondary stage and not the main stage. . . anyways. . . . So 2:45am rolls around and he does not start playing (mind you I am and the phil lesh show, so this is all according to everyone else). Kanye doesn't come on till 4:40am, and only plays half a set and not the entire thing. a couple of the stages had been off all day (time wise) and seeing as how the concert is sort of a 24 hour kind of thing, everyones times just get pushed and they all play full sets. Kanye's people blame pearl jam (who played an hour longer than they were supposed too -- and it was an amazing extra hour totally worth it), for his being late. . . well if that was the case why didnt he still play an entire set, and after pearl jam got off there was still 2 1/2 hours for them to set up his show, which in my book should be more than enough time! Pearl jam only had an hour between them and jack johnson. So the hippies were outraged and the entire next day i head things like "kanye hates white people", "Kanye hates hippies" and so on and so on. So kanye has definitely lost some fans. . . . i was never one so nothing has changed on my end
me again
one of only two pics taken of me via my camera during the entire bonnaroo trip. . . note i havent showered other than a wet-wipes shower since wed (it was monday)
6.17.2008
BONNAROO
Bonnaroo was amazing!!!!! I had so much fun and saw so many cool bands, totally worth it. There was some issues with the person I went with being a total dick and ass to me, so i just stopped hanging out with him and wondered my own way and made various "friends" along the way. Some of the best times were: dancing in the rain with bill (one of my new friends) to My morning jacket at 2:00am, watching the sunset with a group of hippies one of which (derek, or so i think) kept calling me princess, sitting around a large hookah (I did not participate in that) listening to the "neighbors" jamming and playing various songs late into the night (guitar, drums, mandolin, didgeridoo, harmonica were some of the instruments being played), laying down in the shade of a large tree while willie nelson played in the background. . . i could go on and on. . . . .
anyways the list of bands/shows i saw is (in order of appearance):
Whate made milwaukee famous
Janeeane garofalo and Bike birbiglia featuring leo allen
Fire/side show at the something else stage
dark star orchestra
drive by truckers
scissormen
umphrey's mcgee
les claypool
the swell season
willie nelson
metallica
my morning jacket
Two gallants
sharon jones and the dap-kings
gogol bordello
cat powers
ben folds
zappa plays zappa
iron and wine
Ben solvie
the everybodyfields
jack johnson
pearl jam
phil lesh and friends
serena ryder
yonder mountain string band
aimee mann
an acousic performance with larry campbell, jackie green, phil lesh and teresa williams
robert plant and alison krauss featuirng bone burnett
pat green
derek trucks and susan tedeschi soul stew revival
widespread panic
All and all everyone was amazing, some more so than others. . . check out iron and wine, gogol bordello and cat powers, they were absolutely amazing.
Pics are to follow . . . .
6.10.2008
dissapointing
So i got a letter today from the british geological survey telling me that i did not get selected to interview for the job i applied for. Sort of disappointed, not that i was expecting to get the thing but i would have at least liked to interview. I wish they would day more like why i did not get selected for the interview. . . such as you dont have enough experience or something, that would at least make me understand vs, nope just not good enough ;( oh well. . . . If you know of anyone in need of a micropaleontologist who looks at foraminifera let me know.
6.04.2008
hum. . . .
Hum. . . so i am looking up jobs. . . read the following position, its in Nigeria. . . i found it rather amusing
| Job Responsibilities Collection of microfossils for biostragaphic analysis. This help to delineate the environment of deposition and to infer the age of the the rock where the samples are being collected.these are all useful to delineate the oil bearin capacity of the rock. |
| Job Requirements The education requirements for the program are purely scientific. You need the basic knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics, English language and biology to qualify for Geology for the undergraduate degree program and the the minimum of upper credit to study master program say, Master program in Micropaleontology aspect of the geology field. |
| Uppers The best part of the job is tha is quiet rewarding in term of money (salary). It give you the opportunity to travel far and wide. It would also enable you to appreciate nature a lot. |
| Downers The worst part is that you have to be apart from your family for about 3 weeks out of every month. One also run the risk of encountering dazangerous animals in the forest while collecting samples. |
| Lifestyle The lifestyle is from office to bed.the working hours is quiet long.there is only room for socialising every last week of the month.the part of this work actually is offshore and as such one can enjoy himself by enjoying his work |
| Compensation The compensaton is rewarding, $12,000 per month. There is staff residents for those tha care or otherwise will reive house allowance. He is also entitle for medical care from the company's hospital and all his family members if he is married.there is also scholarship awards for the children at the higher education level. For every promotion there is a change of car. |
| Advice to Jobseekers The advice for the job seekers, get a very good undergraduate grade, at least upper credit, with a master degree in oil/gas or micropaleontology then enjoy yourself doing the work, don't opt for the job because of its rewads but because you love it. The oil/gas industry owns a good prospect in the future. |
5.29.2008
the things your advisor says out of nowhere. . .
"It's official, Louisiana will not be outlawing lap dances in the near future"
--- CB
5.28.2008
Hum. . . wonder if it means something
I arrive at school today to find that everyone is standing outside in the parking lot. So, I park my car and go see whats going on, the fire alarm is going off. No one knows if this is a drill, test or real thing. A minute or two goes buy and the firemen show up, one actually puts on the gear (hard hat and all) and runs into the building, the idea that this is a drill begins to diminish. So we continue to stand outside, another fire truck shows up and the guy runs inside. We continue to wait (mind you it is 90 degrees outside, not counting the humidity). So we wait and wait for a good while (30 min) and finally the fireman comes out and waves for us to come in. So none of us has any idea as to why the fire alarm went off or anything. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning and I am thinking that getting out was really a bad idea. Hopefully the rest of the day goes alright.
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