So it occurred to me that perhaps I should not write a blog entry titled “I Am Not Dying” . . . then fail to post for a month following. Oops. Sorry. Still here, just busy. Went to Boston for work and met up with friends and took in a Bruins game. I will post [...]

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My dad knocked on my door and woke me up: “Criss, someone hit the World Trade Center.” “Uhhh, yeah, that was like 8 years ago.” I thought he was talking about the time someone tried to fertilizer truck bomb the WTC in 1993. (You gotta admit, it’s pretty impressive that I got the number of [...]

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These little critters are called ‘ōpae ‘ula, or Hawaiian volcano shrimp (Halocaridina rubra). Being the scientist that I am, I call them shrimpies. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how you’re actually supposed to care for these guys. Little information cards where I bought them (Shirokiya, a Japanese store in Honolulu) say you [...]

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Well, the supposed rapture of 2011 has come and gone, and surprise, surprise, we’re all still here. So, in case you were wondering, here’s what the Bible really says about the end of the world: Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear. However, no one knows the day or hour when [...]

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Uhh, so . . . sorry if you’ve been trying to get here but have been getting shut down by that silly “Error establishing a database connection” message. I was working on a side project and changed the passwords to my MySQL databases and then promptly forgot to update the config file for this blog. [...]

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I’ve been working in cancer research for 11 years now. Even though I’m far from being an information specialist, I do know more than a lot of people about certain types of cancer, I have received training in finding evidence-based information, and I can usually point you in the right direction for that kind of [...]

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Quote of the Day: “Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold… brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in [...]

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Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted. It has really been one heck of a week. I am super tired, because even when I am able to sleep, I’m so stressed out that my dreams are all over the place. One really cool thing did happen this week, and that was that my friend [...]

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After all these years of watching season after season of “Weeds” and “Dexter” on iTunes or on DVD months after the paid cable subscribers have seen it, I caved. I need to see “the Newmans . . . succeed where the Botwins have failed.” I need to know what Dexter is going to do, now [...]

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Here’s what the white board at work looked like as of 4:30 p.m. HST on Monday: Haha, notice that no one is answering the gym question. Also, notice that if this poll were representative of my department as a whole, it would mean that the vast majority of the staff just must have terrible hygiene.

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