Vaz had kind of a depressing rant on Under Power today, but it did have lots of linky webcomic goodness, though the last one I already read. The links here are for you, yes, but mostly for me because I don’t have time to read them right now, and bookmarks are so last century.

(22:25:11) Moonbeam Rogers: I mean, it’s november

(22:25:18) Heather C.: *nods*

(22:25:21) Heather C.: ain’t it grand 🙂

(22:25:30) Moonbeam Rogers: not the word i was looking for, actually

(22:27:09) Heather C.: ummm..irritating?

(22:27:13) Heather C.: unnatural?

(22:27:21) Moonbeam Rogers: a pain in the ass, more like it

(22:27:29) Moonbeam Rogers: I got sweaty walking to lab in a t-shirt and shorts today

(22:29:18) Heather C.: yeah, I hate that

(22:29:32) Moonbeam Rogers: but whatever

(22:29:37) Moonbeam Rogers: soon winter will reign supreme

(22:29:41) Moonbeam Rogers: mwahahaha

(22:29:42) Heather C.: for two weeks.

(22:29:52) Moonbeam Rogers: you know, with highs in the middle to upper 60s :-/

Apparently I missed this:

PhysicsWeb – News – Entanglement breaks new record (June 2004)

They managed to entangle 5 photons, which means we can now detect what’s wrong with the Universe. Or something.

Thanks to Elf for the reference.

I’m working on this biosystems paper about the two-oscillator model of the circadian pacemaker. I chose this subject for the term paper because I wanted to learn more about my sleep schedule, and it’s been eductational so far. However, in the crunch between my NASPE abstract and this paper, I have discovered something else.

Recently in this very same course, we have been studying the body as a system. This includes problems like, “if 150 mg of Caffeine are injected into the blood relatively instantaneously, how long does the chemical stay in the cells of the body at an effective level?”

I’m going to pause for a few lines here…

Can you see where this is going?

Since I have neither an IV drip, nor purified caffeine, I’m doing the next best thing. Drinking half-cups of coffee approximately one per half hour. You see, chemical levels in the body generally end up being some kind of initial spike followed by a declining exponential curve, SO, to keep an effective level, drinking a cup of coffee at a time and then sitting here till I get up for another will result in a catastrophe of highs and lows of concentration and energy level. Drinking small amounts at regular intervals will keep me feeling pretty good (until I stop. then I feel like shit, woohoo).

I’m also doing this with food. I’m too busy to cook so I ordered some pizza, which I’m eating one piece per hour to avoid a rush of blood glucose and therefore a rush of insulin, putting me to sleep.

Normally I try to avoid abusing myself like this but it’s only till tomorrow, and then I have Thanksgiving break, so what the hell.

3.5 pages down, 3.5 pages to go. Then I go back to work on the abstract because I hate myself.

Tons of photos of Tokyo’s enormous drainage system, used to smooth out spring floods. We need something like this for New Orleans.

The pics are pretty impresseive, i just wish some of them were a little higher resolution. They might be wallpaper material.

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