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Drink a lot of water with the prozac in the morning. Otherwise, it seems to lodge somewhere, the capsule breaks apart, and I belch up prozac into my nose. This is not a pleasant experience.
Here’s my goals for the weekend — I figure if I make this public, then someone will poke me if I don’t finish something.
I’d better get going!
UPDATE (Sunday Morning): I made the airline reservations (yikes! I should have done that Friday when there was a killer fare — now I’m flying through Atlanta to get to Minneapolis, ick); I’ve DDRed both yesterday and today; and I’m not quite half-way through my thesis sources (I need to make a text file showing the limits for each contour plot for each spectrum in my sample — that’s over 700 individual spectra…this may take longer than I expected).
I have a feeling that my blog and scrapbooking are going to be put off again. Sigh.
MyHeritage.com has a fun flash app that uses face-recognition software to tell you which celebrities you most resemble. My top five results (based on my original passport photo):
Using a different photo with me and Sweetie, I get Edith Piaf, Britney Spears, Karl Donitz (ack!), Anastasia Myskina, and Norah Jones (with Viggo Mortensen there, too, at #7 or so). Sweetie comes up as Annette Bening, Justine Henin-Hardenne, Laura Dern, Rajneesh, and Zhao Ziyang.
A quick note on the site — the flash app crashed Camino on me, but worked under Mozilla. If it crashes for you, try a different browser…
[via Mushi]
BTW: Hopefully I’ll have some more meaningful updates soon — I’ve been very busy with the AAS meeting last week and DDR this weekend.
Put the tights on under the tummy-constricting undergarment.
Why? Because if the tights are over the tummy-constricting undergarment, the waistband has only a smooth, satin-y surfact to grab onto. Not good.
When I hopped into my car last night to go home (late, thank you very much), the radio was playing classical music. Odd. It’s not that I don’t like classical music – I just don’t listen to it in the car much. In fact, for driving to/from work, I generally need music that I can sing along with. That way, if I get stuck in traffic, it’s not so bad because I just sing along with the radio. So, when I turned the car off, the radio was playing the Z104 morning show and “modern” rock (whatever that means). That’s why it was a shock to hear classical music playing when I turned the car back on.
Turns out that Z104 went off the air yesterday at noon. I don’t recall any warning yesterday morning about that, but then, I was listening in traffic and then at work, so I didn’t have my full attention on the station. Still, one might think there’d be some warning.
This morning, when I hopped into the car, I didn’t know what do to. I liked the Z104 morning show. It was the thing that got me going in the morning, and I’d get my traffic and weather for the day on my way to work. I spun the dial a bit, but the other “modern rock” stations were playing rap or harder rock, which I don’t really like. Instead I started up the CD I had in the player (Barenaked Ladies, Barenaked for the Holidays).
I used to listen to a different station most of the time, but once I discovered Z104, I just left my dial there, since I liked about 90% of the songs they played. That, and they didn’t seem to have as many commercial breaks as the other station I listened to. I don’t want to go back to the old station. I don’t like the other “modern rock” stations in town. Guess I’ll need to get my iPod radio transmitter back in the car so I can just create my own radio station. Ugh.
This is a good one!
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In the year 2006 I resolve to: Make as many people hate me as I possibly can.
Get your resolution here [Link is gone – 1/2014]
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[via Feministe]
Happy New Year everyone!
Andrew and I returned from our trip on Saturday, and I’ve been lazing around the house ever since. I put a few pictures up in a Flickr set, and put all of them up on Flickr: Christmas in Montreal.
I’ll hopefully add a few pre-dated posts in the next couple days, but I make no promises (I’m still feeling lazy, plus I have the AAS meeting next week to get ready for…at least I don’t have to travel for that one this time).
Armed with my new camera and clear Canada skies, I made my first attempt at astrophotography tonight.
One big challenge was the 40 cm of snow on the ground coupled with a 5-inch tall tripod. Andrew and I borrowed a plastic tray from his mom for me to set the camera on. However, this meant that I either needed to point the camera and see what came out, or crouch in the snow to see if I could figure out what was in the lens. I did the former, so bascially I didn’t know what would come out until the shutter closed and I looked at the resulting picture.
I set the shutter to stay open for 60 seconds (the maximum allowed by my camera). I didn’t set the film speed, but I think it was on ISO 50 — unfortunatley, I think that’s the least light sensitive. The next time I try this, I’ll step through the different ISO settings and the shutter settings. I also want to get a taller tripod.
The first couple of pictures didn’t turn out, and it was fairly cold, so I was ready to give up. Then I got this way cool picture of Orion.
Bolstered by this, Andrew and I decided that it wasn’t quite as cold as we’d thought. I took a couple pointed straight up at the sky, and caught Auriga, Taurus and the Pleiades (click on the image to get to the Flickr pages with the constellations marked).
Andrew and I think we might try and go back to Creek Crossing Farm, where we stayed for our honeymoon, and play around with my camera sometime next year. Maybe we could time it with a meteor shower — that would be way cool.
We spent another quiet day in Hemmingford today. After sleeping in late, Andrew and I walked around his parents’ yard. They live on an old horse farm and have about 5 acres, so we walked around and played with taking pictures of the snowy landscape. Then I made Andrew help me with a snowman:
After kicking around the house for a while, we popped over to Auntie’s house to visit with her, Uncle, Maggie, and Bob. Auntie gave Andrew and I a tour around her place, pointing out some of her favorite odds ‘n’ ends. She has a vast collection of dresses, along with treasures from every corner of the world. It’s a lot of fun to tour her place.
I also heard from Dad today. They sent him home from the hospital this morning, and he was able to make it to Christmas-morning church service. The doctor had told him that it was okay, and that he liked to get patients back to their normal schedule as soon as possible. He needs to watch his activity, but should be taking 10-15 minute walks every day. It was good to hear from him.
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