Posted in nerdiness on February 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
1. The prime minister at the beginning of the Goblet of Fire is actually Harold Saxon and there is a showdown between The Master and Voldemort.
2. Who would win in a fight, the Ministry of Magic or Torchwood?
This exercise in lunacy is brought to you by Cleaning The Spare Room Whilst Listening to Harry Potter [...]
Posted in nerdiness, parenting, tagged absurdity, secrets on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Via the sneaky use of coupons and gift cards, we’ve acquired the 3rd season of the latest Dr. Who. While it burns to do exactly what stores want you to do with Christmas gift cards (i.e. buy something more expensive and pay for the difference from your pocket) The Husband and I are far [...]
Posted in nerdiness, technology, tagged Apple, Google, Leopard on November 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Apparently I am the top Google search result for compatibility problems with Leopard and CanoScan LiDE 500F scanners. I haven’t taken a look since I noticed the problem, but I hereby swear to those finding lil’ old me while googling for help, to take a more in depth look at what’s wrong. Probably over Thanksgiving, [...]
Posted in nerdiness, tagged frustration, bad analogies on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I have a post simmering around in my head, but it won’t boil away and escape. I hate these times. The Husband can be talking to me, and I’m staring off into space, obsessing about whatever is bothering me. He’ll ask me what’s up, and then say “are you still on that?”
Well, yes, I am.
This [...]
Posted in Science!, nerdiness, work, tagged frustration on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I could not, for the life of me, get a good concentration of RNA yesterday. And it’s driving me crazy.
I know it’s not my technique, because I tested it with some old tissue samples in the -80, and got half a microgram per microliter. But with the real samples, I got between 9 [...]
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