So true...

Most Mother Goose Rhymes/fairy tales are really quite twisted, when you actually stop and think about them.

It's life Jim, but not as we know it...

Strange headlines du jour:

Someone in Jamaica is stealing beaches. Apparently nobody noticed the disappearance of an entire 400m beach. Come on, folks. Not even we Californians would fail to miss an entire beach.

Worried about finding the proper rhythm for CPR? Worry no longer, my friend! For lo and behold, doctors have determined that all it takes is Stayin' Alive.

Iz in your pirate bag, absorbing your skillz.

Why? Why not sleep on a couch or a pillow or something? Of all the places in the house, why would a cat pick a gym bag to sleep in? Is she afraid that mutant space rats are trying to steal our Tae Kwon Do uniforms while we sleep? Or maybe she just wants to pick up mad martial arts skills by osmosis. Now there's an idea for a very bad martial arts B movie... 

Gotta love teaching...

Running Update:

Number of lab sections taught today (so far): 1
Number of people using dirty equipment and contaminanting entire plates of bacteria: 1.5 (I caught the second one before any more damage could be done).
Number of fires started by students: 1

[Edit: the girl set an entire jar of ethanol on fire. Fwoosh!]

There you have it, people. Students: the hope for the future. 

By popular (ok, one person) demand...

You asked for it! Create your own Political Interference Story! Actually, this is just about the level of coding I could probably manage. I should sell an application suite for the newspapers: create your own political/celebrity/science news/gossip/latest and greatest breakthrough. I'd be rich! Except, actually, I suspect they already use such a product...

Ok, so I normally avoid internet jokes, but...