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Phew, I’m tired
Posted by Tara C. Smith on August 20, 2007 I mentioned August would be a hellish travel month. Beginning August 2nd, I drove to Chicago for YearlyKos, back to Iowa and grabbed the kids and dogs, headed to Ohio to visit family (including an almost-9-months-pregnant sister and her 18-month old son), headed out to Maryland/DC/Delaware for an impromptu road trip, back to Ohio, back…
Well, this doesn’t happen every day…
Posted by Tara C. Smith on July 27, 2007 Just a quick post from the “weird happenings in Iowa” file: Mysterious chunks of ice pelt Iowa town. DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Large chunks of ice, one of them reportedly about 50 pounds, fell from the sky in this northeast Iowa city, smashing through a woman’s roof and tearing through nearby trees. Authorities were unsure…
Tagged!
Posted by Tara C. Smith on June 26, 2007 Blogging will probably be light this week; while I was in Ohio a week ago for a happy event, this weekend was much the opposite, and I’ll be out of town part of the week at a memorial service. In the meantime, though, I got tagged (twice!) with a meme that I’ve already seen pop…
Creation museum—more posts from the gang
Posted by Tara C. Smith on June 25, 2007 I mentioned that a whole group of us went to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Professor Steve Steve has his account now up at the Thumb, while Jason Rosenhouse has a two-parter at EvolutionBlog, and Wes Elsberry’s account is here. Oh, and a group picture: Rear, L to R: Evil Monkey, Richard Hoppe (“RBH”), Wes…
Waxing indignant: pointless?
Posted by Tara C. Smith on May 31, 2007 In the comments to the XDR-TB update post, Scott suggested that bloggers were putting too much emphasis on whether the TB patient was stupid/arrogant/self-centered/whatever, and later that “waxing indignant is pointless.” I started this as a response to those comments, but thought instead it might be an interesting conversation–is it pointless? Certainly indignation about this…
“Intelligent design” the world actually needs
Posted by Tara C. Smith on May 29, 2007 Scanning today’s New York Times, I ran across this article on designing for the world’s poor, which isn’t really an issue I’d spent much time considering previously. From the article: “A billion customers in the world,” Dr. Paul Polak told a crowd of inventors recently, “are waiting for a $2 pair of eyeglasses, a $10…
Touchdown in Toronto
Posted by Tara C. Smith on May 21, 2007 Well, I made it here for the American Society for Microbiology general meeting. In Canada. So far, I had the people at my hotel completely screw up where the airport shuttle left from, leaving me waiting at the airport for an hour and a half, screwing up my reservation by almost shorting me a night,…
Where I am again marginalized
Posted by Tara C. Smith on May 18, 2007 So, Dave over at The World’s Fair has started a coffee mug meme, suggesting that “…it’s almost like it s an emblem of your character. As if the type of cup you use can offer insight into the sort of personality you are. Or maybe not…” He asks then: 1. Can you show us your…
New blogs!
Posted by Tara C. Smith on May 3, 2007 Busy today and have family visiting from out of town, so I’ll take a few minutes instead to highlight some fairly new blogs. First I’ll note that my friend and colleague over in the Biology department, John Logsdon, has a new blog: Sex, Genes, and Evolution. He’s a real live evolutionary biologist working on a…
The broad reaches of melamine
Posted by Tara C. Smith on May 3, 2007 Over at Deep Sea News, Craig has a heartbreaking story about the death of his dog a year ago, and it’s possible connection to the current pet food recall. I admittedly haven’t been paying very close attention to all the updates on this. I have two small dogs of my own, a 10-year-old chihuahua and…