mlsurfs' Journal

weird
my grandma quit smoking 3 weeks ago. she decided cigarettes were too expensive. and just stopped. she just missed the motion of moving her hand to her mouth and lighting the ciggies so she said the first few days she would just go get a glass of water instead.

weird!!!

and on a different note... really good party crashers, crashing the state dinner last night

john muir papers cool!
university of the pacific has a digital collection of John Muir's papers and drawings etc really neat!!!

leaky pipeline
for women in science a recent report from a thinktank...

wahhhh? weird?
caster semenya gets to keep gold medal and prize money and gender tests remain private. how much was the prize money????

busy
1) we can buy a a ski resort in utah if we can roust up a million bucks or so

2) interesting article on paternity in the NY times i had previously heard some statistic about how a ridiculous number of men were NOT raising their biological children... but who knew they could get screwed into continuing to pay for them once they figured that out!!

cool
buried treasure in the form of scotch on the south pole! perhaps we should start an expedition!

stuffs
i have 2 interviews (so far) hopefully there will be more!

Wyoming (Dec 7-8), Penn State (Dec 14-15)

also this is pretty cool
a cheap "wag bag" for people in the 3rd world that turns poop into fertilizer in ~2weeks

annyoing, and illegal?
house limits abortions in federal health care plan HELLO. since when are the federal government and conservatives going to "get their hands out of women's vaginas"??? (as so eloquently put by K.F.)

thwarted... why i should not get up before 11am
doooh. i went to change my sample in the XPS. well. the damn key they gave me (which I hadn't tried until today) doesn't work.

then i went to pick up the painting i had framed. and despite the fact that the website says they are open from 10am - 6pm on saturdays... they don't open until 11.

i give up.

disturbing stuff
girl killed by coyotes while hiking .... this is in canada --- j.d. and i saw a coyote running around san pasqual @ sierra madre last week while we were out running.

and

severed feet wash up in British Columbia

tristan da cunha
is the most remote inhabited island in the world. i heard it on "the world's" geo quiz today.

i wonder if we can go visit?

it's okay... i don't need my toenails
ultramarathoner's who permanently remove their toenails to help the athletic pursuit.... maybe some of you need to consider this =)

it seems that another solution to this would be to not wear shoes...

photoshop bobbleheads
now women in ads are being photoshopped to look like real life bobbleheads and the brits want to put warnings on photos like cigarettes.

i agree that the media presents a lot of unrealistic images to the world for women to try to live up to.

internet security
so in 2006 and 2007 i got a few emails (that were real) addresses to SOME OTHER girl named mary laura in some spanish speaking country (i think venezula).

Anyways, today i got in spanish a "reset your password" email from google sent to my alternate (caltech) email.

Anyways, i did NOT click on that link. but did change some of my info. then i realized google basically owns my life. so i think i will start changing my password monthly.

interesting stuff
1) driving to ucla today i heard this piece on airtalk about barefoot running i thought the nightwalker in particular might enjoy it

2) artificial reef creates sweet surf

i have so much work to do. and so many applications to submit. life is tough.

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