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St. Vivian - Patron Saint of Hangovers

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One of my favorite teaching moments was explaining to 13 and 14 year olds that even though we look solid and stable, we are actually made up of tiny particles that are constantly in motion.  Not only that, but those tiny particles are composed of mostly NOTHING.  SO, you, me, and all of our puppies, [...]

"Cerberus" would have been cooler…
The International Astronomical Union has officially christened Pluto's two newest satellites Nix and Hydra.

The tiny satellites were discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope last May and are believed to have been formed from the same giant impact that carved out Charon, Pluto's third satellite, discovered in 1978. The names were proposed [...]

The world’s oldest learned society will today tear up its 340-year-old business model with the launch of an “open access” journal allowing people to read its new scientific papers free of charge.The Royal Society in London virtually invented the subscription-based system of peer-reviewed scientific journals when it started the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society [...]

Things are starting to calm down since the move and we’re getting settled in day by day.  Tomorrow will be a month since we closed on our house here, yet it seems like years since we lived in Columbia!
Over the weekend, Dave, Royce, Melanie, Stephanie and Jon visited Anna, Schaefer and I for Morrison’s going [...]

Wow…
For the first time in my late 20's life, I'm not a resident of South Carolina. Even while in Connecticut, I retained my status as a Sandlapper in King Arthur's Court. This morning, I received my NC Driver's License, complete with the obligatory bad picture.  AND, I didn't miss a single question on [...]

Schaefer comes home tomorrow from his stomach surgery!
Anna and I went to visit him today at the Vet, and he seemed to be doing much better.  His doctor said he had been a great patient and all the nurses were in love with him.  We took the monkey that Emily and Dave bought for Sylvia, [...]

PlayoffBeard.com’s Guide to Grading the Beard
In
9 days, 16 teams, and over 400 players will take part in a century old
right of passage and watch the stock price of Gilette dip slightly. To
help simplify the chaos of the playoffs, and the unprecedented hair
growth that follows it,we bring you the Playoff Beard Guide to Grading the Beard.
This [...]

Well, now Schaefer is sick. I must have been a horrible person in my last life that killed kittens for kicks or something. This is just getting ridiculous. Karma hates me.
Schaefer had surgery this morning for a blockage in his stomach. We thought it was rawhide, but when the doctor got [...]

This is my Number 1 piece of advice, even if it is numbered eight. When you copy things from the web into Word, ignoring #3 above, don’t just “Edit > Paste” it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and it suddenly changes to blue, Helvetica, 10pt [...]