Handed back Exam I in H101
Creating revisions for homework--this weekend.
Worked on P & T
Got Altas Shrugged, The Stranger, Pride and Prejudice, In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect, The Lost Symbol books for students, and various music too, Brahms, Prokofiev, Mozart, Gregorian Chants; sheet music (Suites from Debussy)
While at one of the entrances of Hell (I was able to shoot two pictures before the forces of evil disabled my phone) The rolodex to the right are the souls of produce.
I was accosted by a young man who found a young praying mantis (the color and texture of grayish tree bark), distressed what to do. I promptly offered to take the mantis to somewhere safe.
and placed him in one of the trees on the west side of Kroger. Bloomington is "Tree USA", after all.
I also watched nearly half a dozen brave souls, of a larger contingent, creating The School of Informatics and Computing - Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana's float 
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This is homecoming week--and although I like the weather, it's not conducive to crepe paper.
I must show Kan's disdain for my having to do work at home--the laptop is at the left. 
I will eventually show what he does inbetween these misleading cute, passive poses. The last thing to say is that I must be a luddite.
The last image is of my television informing me I should pay my bill...my television...What happens when the house is eventually tethered electronically, and your electric toothbrush flashes, "Pay the TV--and buy more Crest?" I'm glad I've kept the clock I had in high school--no electronic soul or enough silicon to give messages other than static or an annoying beep to rouse me from sleep. I know it's probably paranoid, but I could swear the television was trying to turn-off the other electrical devices in the room until I looked at it squarely and performed what is asked.
Meet Miles.
Let's hope for a blowout in the Red River Shoot Out. I'm looking for Colt and Shipley to have a great game, dispensing with OU. 
- (edited October 16, 2009, 5:20 PM)
It was a closer game than I would have liked, but Texas beat Colorado handily in the third and fourth quarters. For any who watched the game, Shipley and the great defense was the answer. Completed grading H101 Exam and gave an exciting homework III.
Ordered books and more music for Honors students.
Odious, necessary errands today too. I am looking forward to my new website. - (edited October 16, 2009, 4:11 PM)
Our Drosophila paper in Genome Biology has been accessed 1938 times so far and is now designated in Genome Biology as "highly accessed". Please visit Gene networks in Drosophila melanogaster: integrating experimental data to predict gene function
Beginning the onslaught of P&T cases.
Attended Life Sciences Reception Faculty/Employers/Students Wednesday, October 7th, 7:00 p.m., President’s Room- Indiana Memorial Union. - 4:56 PM
Scott and I and the gym--a the story of...well, he's very sore today LOL. His text to me is "I so ***** sore" which sums it up.
Meet Justen, Bobak and get Indigene.org back-up (Owe Dave cookies)
Group working on similar things: Rational Extension of the Ribosome Biogenesis Pathway Using Network-Guided Genetics
Jim is good
Bought Terbyte Drive for Jim's data
Kan is up to date with shots. Our vet Alice at Bloomington Vet. Hosp. was great. Alice surely must be one of the best vets in the world!
Tuesday lunched with A. The food was actually healthy AND good--she has always had exquisite taste!
Own Jayce mock-up still needed
Post Homework and class notes and finish exam grading. - (edited October 6, 2009, 5:33 PM)
Faculty Nomination
Addressing Internet Problem
UG committee
Discussed the undeniable wisdom of banning flavored cigarettes with students. I find this decision so sublime, that listening to Magnificat in D, BWV 243 Quia Respexit...Omnes Generationes
is the only means I have to fully comprehend not only the law, but also the great minds that were intrepid enough to identify and stamp out this problem. I do have an admittedly silly thought: will flavored cigarettes become among the ilk of guns, heroin, extortion...trafficking of cookie dough cigarettes. We must be vigilant.
Let's hope there's a kind of cosmic hiccup, and we beat the OSU tomorrow. So a mystery has occurred. I embarrassingly spend too much on books, mostly at Amazon and even have the Kindle DX. So the mystery--yes. After ordering 16 copies of a book for my honors class, the order, according to UPS via Amazon had shown the delivery was made two weeks prior--Sept. 16. There was a green colored bar, which I guess indicates successfully delivered. Oddly, I had not received the books. I contacted Amazon and explained about the nearly identical addresses in my planned housing division, and the likelihood the books were no more. Amazon contacted UPS, then responded to me that UPS ackowledged deliverying the books to the wrong address. True to Amazon's wonderful service, it sent me an additional 16 books at no charge overnight. Herein lies the mystery. UPS delivered what appears to be the original order that night, then the duplicate order the day after. Amazon did not send three orders of 16 books (I've just spoken to them). How could UPS have delivered the books, yet ostensively deliver the same order to me weeks later? Hmm.
Just finished reading Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! The Psychology of Deceit. It's interesing, though somewhat dated, account of lies through the lens of a psychiatric physician. I encourage reading of the book, if for no other reason than to dispel widely held mythoi of affectation, ability to detect lying, and so forth.
One of my I101 students is now graduating. William Falotico is an amazing student, and from what I've seen, just as an amazing employee. Please visit his website to read more about this young man who came to me as an enthusiastic 18 yo and is going to the Kelley soon. - (edited October 2, 2009, 2:44 PM)