Tom Smith

The only problem with buying Tom’s latest CD (go buy it here) and ripping it, putting it on the MP3 player, and going out into the mundane world with it is that you end up wandering the grocery store aisles looking a lot like this:



which is fine at Tom’s concert, but a little weird in the grocery store. Fortunately, these days so many people have audio devices of some sort plugged into their heads that dancing to unheard music or talking to unseen persons is normal.

graduation

Our department (Biochemistry) just graduated another graduate student, Zeynep. They served wine at the party and, well, it’s good that I wasn’t planning on doing anything all that complicated this afternoon, because I’m a bit hazy on exactly which way up is. It doesn’t take much....