Books are my drug. I was walking home past the library last night, and I couldn’t resist. I’ve been jonesing for something to read before bed lately, and I had to get my fix.

I checked out several books:

• The Cliff Walk : A Job Lost and a Life Found – Don J. Snyder
• Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (one vol) – Lewis Caroll
• In Praise of Folly – Desiderius Erasmus

I started with The Cliff Walk last night at nine-ish, when I was already rather tired, planning on getting up early, and only going to read a few pages. Just one little hit, I promise. Around 12:30 I decided it was time to sleep, as I really did need to get up at 5 or 6 at the latest. I’m almost done with Cliff Walk.

I’m not quitting though.

Congratulations! The abstract listed below has been accepted for HEART
RHYTHM 2005 to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 4-7, 2005.

A big w00t! My abstract was accepted to our biggest conference. Too bad I don’t get to travel since it’s here in New Orleans.

If you need me, you’ll have to leave a message. I’ll be too busy rocking out.

ADDENDUM: This will be a poster presentation, not speaking.

Yo, peeps. Whatcha get when ya cross gizoogle.com with Maddox? H-I-to-tha-lizzarity. You have to translate subpages manually, though.

Brizzock in the Hizzouse, yo.

This intelligent design stuff is still going on. Are we living in the 12th century? What the hell?

To quote from memory, more likely paraphrase, a proponent of intelligent design from the article, “If humans come from monkeys, then why are monkeys still around?”

This statement (and the ovation it apparently received) shows the very ignorance that makes it essential that these people have no say in science education. They’re clueless. I’m not going to bother explaining to all of you just why that statement is ludicrous, but if you really do doubt me then drop me an email or a comment and I’ll do my best. For further reading on the subject, see “The Blind Watchmaker” by Richard Dawkins.

The iMac mini is cute, sure.
Small, certainly.
And it’s cheap.

BUT IT HAS NO S-VIDEO PORT.

Deal breaker. What the hell were they thinking? It screams media media media and yet, no S-VID. Plus, with no expansion slots, there’s no way to add a card with the proper port. WTF?

What do you think the likelihood the next model has one might be, hmm?